Applying Fashion Design Principles to Create Distinctive Designs Inspired By Psychological Disorders to Enhance Creative Thinking

Abstract

At the beginning of the design process, the designer must rely on his creative imagination to create designs in order to come up with a new creative idea, as creative thinking constitutes a new turn in fashion design field that aims to achieve the desire of modern societies for new ideas with advanced methods.

Many people suffer from some degree of psychological disorder, and it is important to draw more attention to this through the field of fashion design. Therefore, this research sheds light on some types of psychological disorders that many people suffer from and translates these disorders into distinctive women’s clothing designs by enhancing creative thinking, where the applied study relied on the design and implementation of 4 distinctive designs that are affected by some types of psychological disorders and reflect the inner feelings felt by the patient, by applying some of the principles of clothing design with using many techniques such as laser cutting, drawing on fabric, manual and automatic embroidery.

Research Problem:

How to link the principles of fashion design and psychology by enhancing creative thinking to create designs influenced by the internal feelings of a patient with a psychological disorder.

Research Objectives:

Identifying some types of psychological disorders suffered by the psychiatric patient and trying to translate them into clothing designs for women by applying some principles of fashion design in order to promote creative thinking in the field of fashion design.

Research Hypothesis: