Abstract
Cultural heritage carries power, a boundless source for artists and designers’ inspirations, furthermore, experiments of re-inventing cultural heritage into contemporary forms is considered a progressive vision of future. The current paper presents an experience to extend boundaries of fashion, and examines power of continuity and power of change. The objectives can be summarized in two main points: First, documenting the Omani men’s traditional head cover (Kumma) through museums, references, and the author description; second is inspiring contemporary women fashion by Kumma. The study highlights one piece of Omani traditional costumes, carrying rich historical, aesthetical, and technical dimensions. Reinventing experiments have been represented in women fashion, through the de-constructive and re-constructive approach. An opinion questionnaire of proposed designs had been applied on a sample of Omani and non-Omani women, measuring the acceptance rate of heritage re-inventing. Statistical results indicated high acceptance rate of non-Omani for heritage renewing and reformulating, considering this as a type of keeping pace with the global devolving, on the contrary, 83% of Omani community preferred to transform Kumma artistic folk motifs on women Abaya through printing or through embroidering techniques. This indicates their tendency for inspiring by Omani Kumma in conceptuality not materiality. The study recommends intensive keeping of cultural heritage through real and virtual specific banks, and at the same time, encouraging young designers to consider artistic traditional cultural heritage in proposing modern designs.
Presenters
Rehab Ragab HassaanProfessor of Fashion Design , Education and Culture Studies , University of Nizwa , Nizwa , Oman
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OMANI KUMMA, CONTEMPORARY FASHION, TRADITIONAL COSTUMES, DE-CONSTRUCTION AND RE-CONNSTRUCTION, CONCEPTUAL FASHION, FOLK MOTIFS, RE-INNVENTING FASHIONN
