What are the elements of the popular unisex style clothing on the market now, and how are they designed?

1. Style modeling

Initially, unisex design is the direct application of men's design elements in women's clothing design. In the famous brand CHANEL everlasting "small fragrant wind" suit design, CHANEL based on men's sportswear and suit combination of innovative design, directly to the men's silhouette and components used in women's clothing design, will be handsome, unrestrained, casual personality traits and women's elegant, self-confident charm of the performance of a combination of breaking the traditional concept of clothing, making women from the forbidden to the traditional concept of clothing, so that women's clothing from the traditional concepts, so that women's clothing from the forbidden, so that women's clothing from the traditional concept of clothing. Traditional clothing concepts, so that women from the confinement of free, in pursuit of a new self.

With the emergence of Chanel unisex clothing, unisex clothing gradually evolved into a direct fusion of women's clothing and men's clothing. Nowadays, unisex clothing is more in pursuit of large silhouette design, the overall fusion of men's clothing ruggedness, reduce the details of the design, in the "O", "H", "T", "Y", etc., the "O", "H", "T", "Y", "T", "Y", "Y" and so on. "Y" and other larger silhouettes on the basic structure of the design. For example, the famous French designer Yves Saint Laurent pioneered the design of the "smoking suit" (Figure 1), which directly applies the characteristic elements of men's smoking suits (metal accessories, gentlemen's bowler hats, bow ties, vests, etc.) to women's clothing styles. The design effect of the "smoking suit" revolves around solemnity and entertainment, emphasizing the upper body by emphasizing the shoulder line and adding shoulder pads, and then displaying the inverted triangle design effect by shrinking the foot opening, showing the tough and strong personality traits that are inherent in women's everyday clothing. With the increasing integration of male design components and women's clothing design, the design of three-dimensional cutting and leg expansion pants have given the "smoking suit" more design direction.

The silhouette of unisex clothing tends to expand the shape, is a kind of inclusive style, cover, blur the male and female body features, so the sense of broad is also one of its style characteristics, such as the effect of the popular work style series in recent years. Figure 2 for the popularity of workwear clothing in recent years, clothing style design by the functional needs of the influence of the upper and lower one-piece jumpsuit modeling retained the rugged mechanical design sense of the Industrial Revolution, the classic lapel modeling, loose modeling design and back waist tightening produced by the natural draw folds, the haze shows a perfect blend of sexiness and handsome, focused.

2. Fabrics

The development of science has made the fabric market more colorful, due to the smooth and clean lines of fabrics, various textures, tissues and structures can be used for unisex clothing design. Neutral wind clothing design thrust for the pursuit of comfort, loose, natural style characteristics, fabrics try to select natural fiber materials to enhance the wearing sense of clothing, has a certain environmental effect, so that the overall value of clothing. Apply synthetic fibers such as chemical fiber, vegetable card, nylon and other man-made fibers alternately in the natural fibers, by mixing the characteristics of the fibers, processing and manufacturing into more suitable for the modern needs of the fabrics. "Micro-polypropylene fibers are woven into horizontal strips of silk and chiffon for an amazing sheen that makes unisex garments sophisticated in their simplicity."

In the 20th century, Coco Chanel first used tweed, which is exclusive to men's wear, in the production of women's designs. Tweed fabrics are mainly woven from twisted wool, and Chanel used exclusive tweed, which is dyed in advance to create colorful fabrics of great ornamental value. In order to make the neutral wind clothing style modeling more appreciation value, the fabric needs to have a certain sense of luster, and then fused with modern mechanical technology to enhance the quality of clothing style modeling, so that the clothing is low-key luxury and exquisite extraordinary. In addition to style modeling, people also put forward more requirements for the comfort of clothing, designers in the clothing shaping, will shift their attention to the creative design of fabrics, the use of tucks, sewing, cutting and other secondary design techniques, the design of clothing fabrics. The effect of fabric reshaping can substantially increase the utilization rate and ornamental value of fabrics, adding new design ideas for unisex clothing.

3. Color

Color is the clothing style and the designer's language of the external expression, not only full of designers' personal design inspiration, but also contains the consumer's personal temperament connotation. Neutral wind clothing in the early stage of the color basically to black, white, gray and other low tone, with dry and bright short hair, the overall display of women's elegance, toughness, rationality of the inner qualities. With the opening of the prologue of the neutral wind, neutral clothing color is no longer confined to colorless and other low brightness color design, began to choose a richer color, some of the purity of the higher, lower brightness of the color will also be embellished.

Relative to the women's unisex design changes, men's unisex transformation of the road is relatively long, important changes in the late 1960s. With the arrival of the "peacock change" period, rebellious aesthetics created a hippie style with bohemian colors, triggering an explosion of men's colors, patterns, accessories and other elements, men's clothing design began to use a lot of gorgeous colors, such as proud, gorgeous peacock feathers. Nowadays, the visual effect of neutral style men's clothing began to appear rich colors, such as red, pink and other bi-feminine colors can also be integrated into the daily wear. Women's clothing design in addition to relatively floating on the surface of the color, but also began to use more low, stable colors, so that women's clothing also has the men's clothing stable and resolute characteristics.

Neutral wind clothing has gone through a long road of development, foreign neutral wind series has presented a more complete design system. Domestic based on social and humanistic influences, in recent decades, neutral wind began to gradually integrate into daily clothing, and sports, professional and other styles, "neutral style between men's and women's clothing to meet the different consumer groups".