Looking For The Chinese Style Of Fashion Elements In National Costumes

"Chinese elements"

In the West, designer We actively draw nutrients from the traditions of all nations in the world and turn them into eternal fashion art. Chinese style haute couture makes a calm temperament suddenly emerge, and becomes a beautiful scenery for people to stop and enjoy in this luxurious, lively and colorful world. With a heavy sense of history and a fresh sense of fashion, the Chinese style has swept the ever-changing fashion stage, which is mainly due to the diversity of design techniques of international top brands, and the extremely flexible use of them, without any trace of copying mechanically. There are two main design methods: one is the combination of modern fashion contour and Chinese clothing elements; The second is the non Chinese application of Chinese elements.

The combination of modern fashion silhouette and Chinese clothing elements

When foreign designers absorb Chinese elements, they often make a large part of articles based on the outline of modern fashion to seek innovation and breakthrough, and to achieve the perfect combination of modern design and traditional national elements. The most commonly used design technique is to use Chinese craft materials and pattern colors or to decorate or break the basic fixed style.

In terms of the application of process materials, brocade and embroidery with Chinese characteristics are most widely used. The most common is the lifelike embroidery flowers, or hollowed out or Chinese embroidery with strong three-dimensional sense, which unfolds the most enchanting posture of flowers, making the fabric full of three-dimensional sense. Embroidery is one of China's ancient crafts, which has made great contributions to the promotion of cultural life. Early embroidery relics show that the Zhou Dynasty was simple and rough; The Warring States Period gradually became more sophisticated; The Han Dynasty began to show the beauty of art. The Song Dynasty witnessed the peak of the development of embroidery in China. No matter the product quality, it was unprecedented, especially in the creation of pure aesthetic art embroidery. It is still handed down after training. It combines the essence of painting and calligraphy, and vividly shows the characteristics of Chinese culture with colorful and beautiful silk threads and skillful technical charm. For example, Jixiangzhai's works are exquisitely embroidered, simple, elegant, vivid and fresh, and both figures and flowers and birds reflect the exquisite and long cultural connotation of oriental women. This year, the designers of Jixiangzhai boldly and innovatively expressed the embroidery in a three-dimensional form, reaching the realm of "embroidering peanut fragrance, embroidering birds flying into the sky".

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In terms of patterns and colors, western designers not only simply copied the patterns of dragons and flowers in the past, but also further explored paintings with more Chinese humanistic flavor, such as Chinese ink wash paintings. Dior's designers splashed black flowers on white fabrics and decorated them with red flowers, while the clothing style was simple and ordinary, But the appearance of speckled ink pattern gives the dress a kind of elegant appearance. The enzo, famous for its national style, constantly reinterprets the elements of Chinese ethnic costumes, tattooing eye-catching national totems on the black velvet fabric, while the interlacing and integration of flowers, dots, metal rims and other patterns and various colors also hit the most beautiful sparks on the clothing, matching the western style plush red scarves, showing a warm ethnic customs, Let China's most national fashion elements shine on the world fashion stage.

Bright red and violet are the essential elements to highlight the beauty of Chinese women. The mixture of some lively colors has infinite visual impact, such as red and green, lake blue and bright yellow. Those vivid antagonistic colors make us recreate a fresh Chinese flavor when we challenge the eyeball limit.

Deconstructing "Chinese National Elements" with Postmodern Techniques

Many designers have begun to break the fixed pattern of Chinese traditional clothing intentionally or unintentionally, and have always integrated modern life concepts into the creation process, integrating Chinese traditional cultural elements into modern life concepts, which is mainly manifested in the use of post-modern deconstruction, taking the typical styles, lines, colors, etc. of the Chinese nation as a symbol and vocabulary, Through non-traditional techniques, traditional components are combined and integrated into their own design, thus forming a new beauty of combining ancient and modern Chinese and western handicrafts with modern technology.

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