National traditions in costume design: aspects of the methodology of art criticism analysis

Today, in the process of active formation of Ukrainian statehood, the problems of aesthetic value of national traditions, which are broadcast to consumers through new forms in multi-vector areas of artistic culture and in the design of clothing in particular, are especially actualized. What are the manifestations of national traditions and in what forms are relevant in contemporary Ukrainian artistic culture, and to what extent such manifestations are aesthetically valuable? The article covers the problems of art-historical analysis of the interpretation of national traditions in the design of the costume as a whole, and in the modern Ukrainian environment in particular. The view is focused to the specifics and differences in the interpretation of folk traditions in the design of everyday, festive and stage costumes. The article states that the technique of studying folk traditions in the suit design is marked by the specifics of individual approaches to certain types of costumes in accordance with their purpose and distinguishing the conceptual dominant or subordination of the general compositional form.