EXPERIMENTING WITH TIE AND DYE AS A TOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY FASHION, USING STREET FASHION DESIGN AS A CASE STUDY

ABSTRACT

Tie-dye  Adire  is  not  only  an  art  of  fabric  production  and  decoration  but  a  way  of  life  that  is rooted  in  the  life  and  culture  of  most  people.  The contemporary world is exempted; In actualization of this research, visual interpretations were used and different book, articles and journals were referenced. During the process of this research it was discovered that a lot of people feel our cultural fabrics are boring and would rather use contemporary fabrics. The  purpose  of  this  research was to show the experimentation of using traditional tie and dye fabrics, adire as a tool for contemporary fashion design using street fashion as a case study, to preserve our cultural heritage, it advised that fashion designers make more use of cultural fabrics.