컬렉션에 나타난 니트 웨어의 소재 구성 요소 및 트랜드 분석

Abstract

This study analyzed the design elements and fashion images of women's knitwear in collections of Paris, Milan, London and New York between 2003 and 2008, and examined knitwear trends. It also sought to categorize the attribute of various factors influencing knitwear trends with a view to determining relevancy among design elements, and to predicting knitwear fashion trends and the progression of short-term knitwear trends. The study also identified design elements and fashion images from holistic perspectives, and confirmed mutual relevancy among such elements by year and season along with prediction of short-term trend direction. This study reached conclusions as follows: The distribution of frequency by fashion design elements, showed that the knit stitch of the highest frequency was plain stitch. In terms of the knitwear item, its highest proportion was shown to be the one piece dresses in a lot of knit located in a unique item, as the frequency of the highest gauge is more than 20G High gauge so that the trend of its knits showed light-weight of the material is changing. Machine knits were overwhelmingly more than hand-knits and regular yarns were predominantly than most of fancy yarns. The most pattern was solid followed by stripe, the full pattern with small size showed the highest frequency. Correlation between each variable showed highest relevancy among gauge, knit stitch, and knitting method, pattern and an array of patterns, pattern size. Material related elements showed a high correlation with knit stitch to make pattern and design.