The aim of this study is to discuss today`s fashion as art by examining fashion exhibitions in museums. The study explored the history of fashion exhibitions before and after the establishment of the Fashion Museum. Through this case study, the study classifies exhibitions and discusses their significance. The review of literature and case study had been conducted so as to analyse the different types of contemporary fashion exhibitions. The study was conducted over a period of five years from 2009 to 2013, as fashion exhibitions have actively emerged approximately since the year 2010. The subjects of research were the exhibitions held in art museums, design museums and fashion museums in Europe, the United States and Japan. The study discusses retrospective exhibitions honoring historic designers and celebrities, thematic exhibitions that focus on the metamorphosis into today`s fashion, traveling exhibitions and self-museum exhibitions for fashion houses. The economic implications and the expansion of the meaning of art are discussed as the significance of fashion exhibitions. The study has also discussed the prospects for fashion exhibitions in Korea.

keyword : 패션 박물관, 회고전시, 주제전시, fashion museum, retrospective exhibition, thematic exhibition

In order to interpret the meaning of luxury in modern fashion, this study first provides its own definition of luxury, analyzes the history of luxury in the western fashion, and discusses the meanings of luxury in the contemporary fashion. The results may be summarized as the following. In order to interpret the meaning of luxury in modern fashion, this study first provides its own definition of luxury, analyzes the history of luxury in the western fashion, and discusses the meanings of luxury in the contemporary fashion. The results may be summarized as the following. First, luxury can be defined as ways of life, commodities, or services that are more extravagant and sumptuous than it is necessary. Second, the phenomena of luxury in the western fashion can be divided into before and after the beginning of the twentieth century. Before the beginning of the twentieth century, there was an increasing desire to express the status symbol through fashion with the rapid growth of the bourgeois class and their co-existence and competition with the traditional noble class. Since the early twentieth century a luxurious consumption of fashion continued in more open and multi-directional ways as a result of the desire to express the differences among social classes that still existed in a popularized society. Third, the aspects of the luxury in the contemporary fashion of the twenty-first century may be seen in the quantitative expansion of the SPA brands and in the qualitative success of the luxury brands. Fourth, although the consumption of both qualitative and quantitative luxury existed throughout each period, the number of consumers who can enjoy the quantitative and qualitative luxury has increased greatly in recent years. As individual tastes get diversified in modern times, the element of pleasure for self-satisfaction is more emphasized among the values of luxury.

keyword : 사치, 양적 사치, 질적 사치, luxury, quantitative luxury, qualitative luxury