Fashion, Art and Arts Practice: A Historiography of Their Relationship

The central theme of this research is a reflection on the evolution of philosophical ideas about the relationship between fashion and art, from its origins in the Age of Enlightenment to the present. The order of appearance of the first theories of fashion, linking fashion and art, their orientation traced. We investigated the evolution of these theories and the conditioning of the evolution by various social causes and intellectual trends. And we also followed up the transformation of fashion theories as an art form under the influence of contemporary artistic practices. The conclusion of the research: the relationship between art and fashion in the modern world is becoming stronger and stronger. The circle of issues that connect art and fashion in the modern world is quite wide, and it is constantly changing. One of the reasons for these changes is the alteration of the essential boundaries of contemporary art.