RE-DEFINING FASHION ARCHITECTURE: AN ETYMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION TOWARDS THE HYBRID OF FASHION ARCHITECTURE

The interrelationship phenomenon between fashion and architecture has always been included in both discourses. An issue has emerged from the fragmented understanding between two fields as the research problem, whether the two should have been separated or linked. In this paper, fashion architecture theory is questioned in order to scrutinize the core of this two knowledge. By using the etymological and theoretical method, etymology highlighted as the entry point while the theory is developed to find the connection. This paper aims; 1) to re-search the linkage between fashion and architecture; 2) to clarify a profound understanding of fashion architecture based on primitive space development's idea; 3) to re-define the hybridity of fashion architecture. According to the primordial perspective, the requirement to cover the human body from the immediate environment has hypothetically created an envelope. This covering can be understood as the initial development of the space, where later has generated divergent understandings: as clothing if being worn as an attire, an architecture if structured as a shelter. These variants were later developed into differentiated fields in a modern perspective. A finding refers to both were constructed to create a protected environment: an interiority; besides varied by dissimilar pattern, structure, and material depending on the targeted end product. The paper's result suggests a critique on a superficial development on both fashion and architecture, encouraging a hybrid as the world has become fragmented