Abstract
Humanity cultural heritage carries a great deal of power, considered a boundless source for artists and designers’ inspirations. Furthermore, experiments of re-inventing the cultural heritage into contemporary forms considers a progressive vision of future. This paper presents an experience to extend boundaries of fashion, 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. The re-inventing experiments had been represented in women fashion, through the de-constructive and re-constructive approach. 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, means their tendency for inspiring by Omani Kumma in conceptuality not materiality. The study recommends for intensive keeping of cultural heritage through real and virtual specific banks, in same time, encouraging young designers for considering 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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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
OMANI KUMMA, CONTEMPORARY FASHION, TRADITIONAL COSTUMES, DE-CONSTRUCTION AND RE-CONNSTRUCTION, CONCEPTUAL FASHION, FOLK MOTIFS, RE-INNVENTING FASHIONN
