Мода і мистецтво: взаємодія в контексті репрезентацій
Background. The author of this article analyses the attitude of different experts of the fashion industry to the question of the possibility of a fashion to be an art. Objectives. The examples of collaboration of artists and designers (the results of their research are costume models which won the recognition as works of a modern art) are to determine methods and ways of interaction of art and fashion in the processes of the creation and the repre sentation of designer′s works. Methods. Using the comparative analysis and interaction the author emphasizes that a new productive opinion on interaction the symbiosis of fashion and art has been formed in modern science. The author tells us not only about the differences and con icts among these phenom ena but she underlines their common, identical features and close correlation. Results. As a matter of fact, the author shows the results of accomplished analysis and the comparison of fashion shows and fashion expositions in the museums as two different formats of representations which promote to turn the designer′s works into the works of modern art with their own features of postmodern culture. Conclusions. The obtained results prove that the fashion and the art are two different phenomena which are in complicated symbiotic relations nourishing each other.