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The progressive artists in Austria, including Gustav Klimt, organized the Viennes Secessionist in 1897, and they took an active part in the reformation of the applied art, by accepting the Jugendstil, stranding for the true art. The vocabularies which characterize this group, are decoration, literature, and the power of symbol. Klimet especially expressed these characteristics and his strong personality. For the created his works with the symbolic and friendly splendor through his highly decorative talents, by accepting the newly changed artistic situation in those days, and by getting out of the naturalistic trends, he was regarded as an avant-garde artist, as a major figure among the Symbolist artists who revived European culture which was destroyed through the World War I. The characteristics of Klimt`s works was to express the various human thoughts and minds through the decorativeness and the femininity, and to use the decorative elements of old Greek and Egyptian culture, and Japanese art, as the motives of his works. His art is to be found between the naturalistic characteristics and formalization, as well as between the industrial arts and the fine arts. In his many portraits he preferred women, by trying to express eroticism, hidden behind the human inner world. For this, he demonstrated the attractiveness and the characteristic of the models by designing the illusionary and unique clothes. In general, his genius was to be seen through the costume which was decorated whth metals and jewels, and through the characteristics of the modern costume, in which the previous solid silhouette was removed, and the gentle and elegant medium color was used. By accepting the new artistic trends in the turn of the century, by fully expressing those characteristics in his creative world, and by taking his theme from the eroticism through the decorativeness and the expression of women, Gustav Klimt`s uniquely decorative expression completely realized the aesthetics of Jugendstil, symbol, decoration, and expression which displayed not only the external appear ance, but also the inner world. Especially, he created a new appearance, emphasizing the costume of the characters in his works. Also, through the costume, the expressed his artistic consciousness and psychology. He showed the characteristics of the reformed costume, through the medium color, the simple forms, and gentle silhouette. Also, he tried to symbolize the passionate inner power, by designing the small mosaics, such as the geometrical patterns, whirlpool patterns, and the indecent meanings, all over the costume. Klmt`s this kinds of attemps shows a Stil Kostume, as the external outcome of the inner spiritual activities, like art, and it establishes a basis for the theory of costume art which deals with the concepts of costume from the artistic points of view. This tradition, playing an important role in the contemporary history of costume, even has been still inherited up to today.