DESIGN OF WOMEN'S MODULAR CLOTHING BASED ON INTERLOCKING FROM VARIOUS GEOMETRIC BATIK MOTIFS IN THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION

• Main Author: Viviany
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83916
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The concept of sustainable fashion is full of innovation issues that are growing and developing, resulting in a push for the fashion industry to pay attention to the impact of design on production processes that consume resources and produce waste and pollution. Modular clothing as an alternative innovation for sustainable fashion products is clothing composed of modular pieces that can be disassembled and reassembled in unlimited combinations. This design raises the problem of limitations in the application of modular clothing in the fashion industry, one of which is caused by the lack of variations in connections between modules which generally use conventional connecting devices such as zippers, buttons, Velcro and so on. The interlocking technique has the advantage of a more sustainable connection because it does not require other materials as support so the recycling process becomes easier (flexibility); the installation process involving consumers as co-designers (diversity); and an unlimited series of module combinations that can extend product life (continuity). Thus, modular clothing products with interrelated connections are expected to support sustainable fashion in the circular fashion aspect as high-end fashion products for the fashion innovator consumer segment; based on three potential values, namely flexibility, diversity and sustainability. Interlocking module designs tend to create repeating patterns by developing geometric visual elements. Cultural heritage is a living entity that constantly changes from time to time. One of Indonesia's diverse textile cultural heritages is the treasure trove of Batik motifs, which often serve as visual inspiration in various designs. Repetitive geometric Batik motifs such as Swastika or Banji, Ceplok, Parang, Kawung motifs, and so on; has great potential to be adapted into an interlocking pattern. The application of Batik motifs in designing interlocking patterns for women's modular clothing is a form of cultural transformation as an effort to preserve the existence of various geometric Batik motifs. Thus, it is hoped that modular clothing with interlocking patterns from various motifs can contribute to being an alternative solution to the development of sustainable fashion, both as an innovative product and culturally. In the design process there is a mixed-method approach, both empirical and experimental, which is structured in the Double Diamond framework. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are applied to obtain the data required in the cluster topic, pre-preliminary, experimental and testing stages. The topic of primary and secondary data needed is related to the perception and awareness of modular clothing products up to the trial stage of implementing modular clothing innovations with interlocking pattern connections with geometric Batik motifs. Through the Double Diamond framework, the design process will be structured as stages with an iterative convergent and divergent thinking structure. Thus, designing interlocking patterns with visual inspiration from various geometric Batik motifs which will be applied as a connection method can be an alternative innovation for the implementation of women's modular clothing in the fashion industry.