패션 브랜드 세발리의 작품에 나타난 슬로 패션의 특성

Abstract

This study evaluated slow fashion characteristics in Sevali’s fashion work and activities. The research method followed the literature investigation and then a case study of collection, collaboration, and many related activities from 2018 through to 2022. The results were as follows. The fashion concept lies in the search process for creative expression methods based on resource circulation. Materials come from daily supplies collected from the street, industrial waste, vintage clothes and accessorial things, inventory or stock fabric, lost clothes, and recycled materials. Expression methods include quilting, patchwork, hand drawing, hand painting, manual embroidery, dyeing, untying the strand, and collage. In particular, the objective is to maintain the original material’s physical properties on the basis of disassembly and reconstruction rather than by chemical change. Also, after the deconstruction of the material, the original material is classified according to physical property, color, print, pattern, and ornament and by which brand-new item is proposed through strategic reconstitution such as combination with similar materials, mixture with similar colors and tones, and mix-and-match among various colors and materials. The Sevali fashion shows the slow fashion features in terms of upcycling for resource circulation, handmade work based on couture craftmanship, stress on Paris-based community, and social practice. Preferably, sustainability pursuit as well as slow fashion should be realized for the genuine fashion future, not for the marketing or advertisement tool.