A moda e os museus: o exemplo do museu do Traje e do Têxtil

Abstract

The concept of fashion emerged in the period between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the Renaissance, period in which the expansion of Mercantile Capitalism made possible the development of cities and consequently the economic changes favored the emergence of cultural transformations, thus boosting the collecting and ostentation on the part of royalty and nobility to the detriment of popular class. The French Revolution significantly influenced the emergence of museum institution and, with the fall of the Ancien Régime, the concept of museum was born modern, bringing fashion to the museum. The present work aimed to discuss the importance and representativeness of fashion as a cultural diffuser and present in the museum, using as an example the Museum of Costume and Textile, through its collection, composed of feminine pieces that clearly demonstrate the Bahian tradition referring to the 19th and 20th centuries. Much of the work was done based on literature reviews. Visits were made to the Costume Museum and Textile from Instituto Feminino, located in Salvador. The matter was discussed in four chapters. In the first chapter, or Introduction, the relationships that exist between fashion and the museum. Next, the authors who were a reference for this research and the various meanings of fashion, history, sociology and, subsequently, the current fashion economy. the fashion in museums is discussed in Chapter 3. In the last chapter a case of insertion of fashion in the museum where the relationship between fashion and Bahian society of the 19th and 20th centuries, the creation of the Museu do Traje e Têxtil do Instituto Feminino and the importance of its collection. By reading this work, you can to evaluate the scope of fashion, its influence and the form established by the man's cultural and social codes.