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This 5 page paper examines how there has been a crossover between fashion and art during the 1990’s. Using Hussein Chalayan as an example the way in which is work may be seen as much art as design is considered looking at the clothes and how he presents with fashions shows that are performances. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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of other interests. In the 1920s there were heavy influences form the interest in Egyptology, taking forms and colours form the artwork of the Ancient Egyptians that was increasingly on
show. This was not a unique period of history, looking at the 1990s there is still a major cross over between art and fashion. One of these designers is Hussein
Chalayan, an unusual designer who has made tables and chairs into clothing, and demonstrates very clearly the cross over between art and fashion. The concept of fashion is well
understood, it is clothing of all types and the way it is designed. However, it we are to argue that Hussein Chalayan is a demonstration of the cross over between
art and fashion we also have to define art. Art covers a very wide range of forms and presentations. An all encompassing definition is "The conscious production or arrangement of
sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium" (Dictionary.com, 2004).
This covers almost every aspect of art we can think of from paintings and poetry to dance and music. Fashion itself has a small area of this, with the arrangement
of colours and textures. However, we are arguing that the cross over may be greater than fashion merely being a subcategory of art. IN looking for this cross over we
are considering how these other non fashion categories of art may be seen within and influencing the fashion designs of Hussein Chalayan. The first indicator of this wider perspective can
be gained from looking that the background of this unusual designer. This Turkish-Cypriot, was actually born H?seyin Caglayan, after graduating from the T?rk Maarif College he went to study in
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