Hybridization between art and fashion: from aesthetic inspiration to digital transformation

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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21268

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Cultural fusion; Art and fashion; Inmersive exhibition; Fashion system; Textile art

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The text analyzes the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion, exploring how contemporary artists insert themselves into the fashion system and use it as a means of artistic expression. It looks at how fashion is inspired by contemporary art movements and artists, reinterpreting their aesthetics, and how artists use fashion to communicate ideas and challenge the boundaries between functionality and aesthetics. The study examines the influence and fusion of art in the creation of fashion collections, the transformation of commercial spaces into art galleries and the emergence of immersive experiences in fashion shows. The use of new technologies, sustainability, ethics in production and the representation of body diversity are highlighted as key themes in the fusion of art and fashion. Curatorial research is presented thanks to the analysis of concrete cases of artists and designers who work with the fusion between art and fashion, marking a distance from textile art. In addition, the text is sustained thanks to a historicist methodology that seeks to understand the complex relationships between art, fashion and contemporary society.

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Rita Cisnal Herrero, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

PhD in Humanities: Language and Culture from the Rey Juan Carlos University (Distinctive, Laude), Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2009), Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Languages (UCM, 2010), Master's Degree in Fashion Design (ESME, 2013) and Master's Degree in Art Therapy (Metáfora International School, 2011). Between 2017 and 2018 she was working as a professor of Prototyping at the European Institute of Design, within the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design and as a professor of color and illustration in the Master's Degree in Fashion Design and Styling from 2014-2017. From the academic year 2018 to the present, she has been teaching at the Rey Juan Carlos University, being responsible for the subjects of Collections I, Collections II and Introduction to Projects of the Degree in Fashion Design and Management. In addition, she has participated as a teacher in the prestigious international course "Culture, Fashion and Design" (2020-2022) which has the collaboration of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. In the field of research, he addresses the origin and communication in the fashion industry and the study of color in this industry. She has participated in various collective and individual exhibitions as a plastic artist, in different seminars and projects of a national and international nature.

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2025-12-13

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Valverde Martínez, C., & Cisnal Herrero, R. (2025). Hybridization between art and fashion: from aesthetic inspiration to digital transformation. UMÁTICA. Journal on Image Creation and Analysis, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21268

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