Özet:

Fashion dolls dressed in prototypes of clothes that were reduced to 1/3 of human dimensions, were described as ‘ambassadors of fashion’ in the eighteenth century. In 1945, at the Théâtre de la Mode, where clothes designed in miniature sizes were presented on fashion dolls, a collaboration with dramatic arts and plastic arts was established, thus moving the craft of haute couture to a cultural space. This article explored two Centuries of French Fashion Elegance (1949-1950), the House of Viktor & Rolf (2008), Le Petit Théâtre Dior (2014-2016), inspired by the idea of organizing miniature haute couture exhibitions with fashion dolls. The aim of the research is to examine the sample dolls and clothing’s selected from these exhibitions and to determine what functional or formal and cultural similarities or differences are between them and the fashion dolls of the eighteenth century. Fashion dolls and their clothes in these exhibitions are depicted with their periods, sizes, materials, techniques, clothing models, fabric types, colors, ornamentation techniques. It is believed that the research will contribute to the Turkish literature and give an artistic perspective on the ways in which national fashion design works are exhibited. As a result, it was determined that fashion dolls wearing miniature haute couture clothes reflect the fashion looks of the periods materials, production techniques, clothing models, fabrics, colors, and ornamental properties as well as in all the details. In this context, it has been determined that they document different fashion styles together, chronologically in concrete form, that fashion houses demonstrate their knowledge and skills in couture crafts, and that they also become part of international diplomacy as well as advertising and public relations work.