Fashion Design

Fashion Design in the form of dolls, engraved fashion plates, sketches, renderings, illustrations, draped forms on mannequins, photography, digital imagery, and film reflect historical styles in art. Social and cultural events, values and knowledge is reflected in art. Art and Fashion exist together and define history in a visual way. Tangible articles of clothing may or may not exist, however fashion is documented. The intangible qualities of fashion are expressed by the illustrator, draper and photographer and interpreted by the viewer. Auxiliary sources (literature, written and recorded verbal accounts) can be used to corroborate information and determine the link between fashion, art and culture in a given time period or place.