Moda e memória: a importância da indumentária na manutenção da história da Armênia pós-genocídio de 1915

Abstract

The present work approaches fashion as a memory maintenance mechanism, approaching the historical erasure of Armenian culture from the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The objective of this research is to develop a fashion collection that rescues elements of traditional Armenian clothing. For this, research was carried out on the functioning of memory and history, the development of the events that shaped the massacre and, finally, an analysis of the elements that make up traditional Armenian clothing, posthumously applied to the created collection. Furthermore, the study proposes to answer this problem: How can fashion contribute to a review of cultures historically erased from the Eurocentric narrative, using the 1915 Armenian Genocide episode as a reference? The general objective of this work is to develop a fashion project based on the understanding of the use of clothing as a vehicle for self-assertion of cultures erased by Eurocentric history. In this sense, the project seeks to review the elements of Armenian clothing prior to the 1915 genocide as a tool for historical appreciation.