Winning Best Costume Oscar 2019 Black Panther A model for Reformulating Traditional Costumes into Dramatic Technological Visions

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Clothing and Textiles Department- Faculty of Home Economics - Helwan University- Cairo -Egypt

Abstract

Winning Best Costume Oscar 2019 "Black Panther" A model for Reformulating Traditional Costumes into
Dramatic Technological Visions
Rehab Ragab Mahmoud Hassaan
Fashion Design Professor- Education and Culture Studies Department
College of Arts and Science- University of Nizwa- Oman
Clothes and Textiles Department- College of Home Economics- Helwan University
rehab.ragab@unizwa.edu.om


As a matter of openness to successful international experiences, and within the framework of exchanging experiences and benefiting from pioneering global experiences through study and analysis, the main objective of the current study comes, which is to analyze the costumes designs of the Oscar-winning film for costumes 2019, "The Black Panther. Where the costumes embodied, including clothes - accessories - jewelry, makeup and hair styling, a future vision of the African artistic heritage, and the study aims, through the inductive approach, to reach the creative modalities by which the fashion designer was able to formulate the heritage characterized by instinct, spontaneity and the raw materials of the natural environment to reformulate it In a future form, thus reviving the heritage with an unprecedented vision. The study is considered a model for employing the inductive approach in the field of costumes and fashion studies, and the applied method was also used, where the researcher conducted self-experiments in designing and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in an attempt to reformulate traditional costumes as it came in the film of the current study.
Study Hypothesis:
A set of creative approaches can be found for fashion and costumes designers to reformulate traditional costumes with futuristic visions, by extrapolating the actual experience of the costumes for the Oscar-winning Black Panther, Best Costumes Design 2019.
Study Recommendations:
-Training and guiding students in fashion design programs to inspire by heritage and move it from a traditional vision to the future.
-Encouraging public and private state institutions to adopt the creative experiences of designers and preserve the intellectual property of Arab designers.
Keywords:
Inductive Approach - Oscar Best Costumes - "Black Panther" - Cinematic Costumes - Reviving the artistic heritage- Costumes Modernizing

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