Employing the Aesthetic Potential of Mandala art using Modern Digital Technologies to Enrich Women's Shawls

Abstract

The research aimed to study the aesthetics of mandala art, which is considered one of the sources of inspiration and quotation for fashion designers, to create decorative designs inspired by the aesthetic potential of mandala art to enrich women's shawls and employ them using modern digital technologies, to measure the degree of acceptance of specialists in the proposed designs in both the innovative, functional and aesthetic aspects, to measure the degree of acceptance of consumers in the proposed designs, as the research sample consisted of specialists, numbering (11) of the honorable professors who are judges in the field of fashion design to learn about their opinions towards the proposed designs, and consumers, numbering (30) women from Saudi society whose ages range from (25-40) years, and the research tools were represented in using the (CLO3D) program to create the proposed designs, numbering (10) designs for women's shawls, a questionnaire to measure the opinions of both specialists and consumers on the proposed designs, and the research followed the descriptive analytical approach with application, and the results reached the proposal of (10) designs for women's shawls with decorations from mandala art and employing them using Modern digital technologies, positive opinions of both specialists and consumers towards the proposed designs, as it became clear that there were statistically significant differences between the innovative designs of women's shawls inspired by the art of mandala and their employment using modern digital technologies at a significance level of 0.01, so we find that design "6" was the best design according to the opinions of specialists, followed by design "2", then design "7", then design "5", then design "9", then design "8", then design "4", then design "3", then design "10", and finally design "1", while there were no differences between design "5" and design "9". It also became clear that there were statistically significant differences between the innovative designs of women's shawls inspired by the art of mandala and their employment using modern digital technologies at a significance level of 0.01, so we find that design "2" was the best design according to the opinions of consumers, followed by design "7", then design "6", then design "8", then design "4", then design "5", then design "9", then design "10", then design "3", and finally design "1". The researcher recommends paying attention to studying modern arts in the field of fashion design and employing them to enrich women’s clothing, conducting more studies and research on the art of mandala and employing them to enrich the aesthetic aspect of different types of clothing and their accessories.