Lace canvas: method of modular design of costume

In this article, the author examines the modular methodology for designing a suit as a way to transform the shape and structure of a suit with minimal expenditure of time and financial resources, which determines the great potential of the modular methodology in the field of suit design. The main task of the study is to provide analytical substantiation of the existing modular design of a suit from lace fabrics and the development of modular design of a suit from lace, lace fabrics and lace-like structures. The adaptation of a modular methodology in designing a suit using lace, lace fabrics and lace-like structures was carried out for the subsequent development and improvement in the design of costumes from lace, which was chosen as the basis of the empirical design method. This allows the research results to be included in the designer’s scientific base for developing a suit from modules using additive technologies. In the article, the author discloses the principles of designing a suit from lacy modular elements by changing the configuration of modules (flat module, volumetric module), which, in turn, are divided into subcategories. The systems for connecting modules into a canvas (in accordance with the geometry of the ornamental mesh, based on the theory of A.V. Shubnikov; according to the principle of unsystematicity and the principle of linear arrangement of modules) and the types of connecting modules in a suit made of lace and lace-like structures (“butt”, “overlay”, “on the edge”, “figure”). As a result of the study, an algorithm for the method of modular design of costumes from lace, lace fabrics and lace-like structures is proposed, on the basis of which the author's sketches are presented using a modular method of designing costumes from lace fabrics.