Colour Solutions in the Design of Kazakh Dress
Ethnic trend in dress design is getting increasingly popular every year, becoming one of the important aspects in the work of fashion designers. Kazakh designers exploring this domain source their inspiration in the Kazakh traditional costume as part of the nation's rich cultural heritage. Designers appreciate its time-proven shapes, unique structure, the details of the cut, a harmonious combination with jewellery, and colour solutions - all those qualities that can well be used in creating modern apparel.
Of the features of the Kazakh traditional costume, directly pointing to its nationality, the most expressive is colour, which usually evolves under the influence of the natural environment in which a nation lives. The idea of association with a particular colour belongs to Goethe: "Sometimes it suffices only to see a familiar combination of colours to almost unmistakably determine ethnic origin of an artefact" (1, p. 56). Clothing of early nomads, representatives of Sako-Scythian culture, played an important role in the evolution...