What are the applications of Chinese traditional elements in modern clothing design?

The design elements contained in Chinese traditional clothing are specific to the times, and have rich variations while integrating the culture of the times, thus creating the special aesthetics of Chinese traditional clothing. In modern clothing design, how to use traditional Chinese cultural elements skillfully, so as to maintain the national characteristics, heritage of the national culture on the basis of the formation of a new design that meets the modern aesthetic needs, has become the challenge facing the current clothing designers.

Currently, the influence and role of traditional Chinese cultural elements on modern clothing design is self-evident, and its application and innovation are mainly manifested in the following three aspects. The first is the application of traditional colors, China's traditional color system mainly includes black, white, yellow, red, green, green, etc., which are the main color reference standard for national clothing, household items; second is the application of traditional patterns, such as dragons, phoenixes, peonies, auspicious clouds, etc.; and again is the application of traditional clothing style, such as hanboks, tangerine, whose style is more loose, giving a sense of elegance and subtlety.

Traditional Chinese culture is rich and profound, can be a constant source of creativity for designers, but the use of traditional culture should not be limited to the Chinese elements of the symbolization of the formulaic production, but also the use of traditional Chinese culture should be used in the spirit of the connotation of the spirit of the traditional culture of the real traditional culture into the design of modern clothing creativity to go. In the design of traditional Chinese patterns and traditional colors as an entry point, the increasingly popular simple European style for integration and integration. In these patterns and colors, we can not just stay in the dragon, flowers, blue and white porcelain, Chinese knots, Peking Opera faces and other patterns of simple copy, but further explore the more humanistic elements of China, such as Chinese ink painting, shadow, brocade, dyeing, tie-dyeing and so on. Only through the integration of traditional Chinese elements into the tide of the times, the mystery and mystery of traditional Chinese elements and Western fashion elements of the atmosphere and openness of each other, complement each other, can truly refresh the global clothing industry, thus promoting the "Chinese style" in the world popular.

National is the world, traditional culture is an infinite treasure. Any kind of national cultural symbols, after years of refinement are permeated with a strong sense of historical gravity, we should respect this historical gravity, and use today's design language interpretation and reproduction of this gravity. In recent years, students of the Hong Kong Fashion Institute of Technology (HKFI) have been trying to utilize "Chinese elements" in their design works, reflecting their thoughts on the inheritance of traditional national culture and striving to find a balance between tradition and modernity. For example, the work of "China Dream" takes the five plump and lovely children in the painting of "Five Sons Seize the Lotus" as the design element, combines with the fashionable and simple silhouette to give people a classical and atmospheric feeling; the work of "Clouds" uses the pattern of the cloud shoulder of the Ming Dynasty, combines with the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art, and creates a sense of hierarchy with the means of fabric hollowing out, and at the same time uses the matching of gray-blue and white to render out the mood of the cloud haze reflecting the sun after the rain, and the clear sky dispersing rainbow; the work of "Purity" is a combination of Chinese elements, which reflects their thoughts on inheriting the traditional national culture and trying to find a balance between tradition and modernity. Pure Beauty" works with Peking Opera face as a design element; "Red China" folk paper-cutting art into the clothing design, etc. These design works will be modern design techniques and traditional styling elements skillfully fused together, a new interpretation of the "Chinese style".

Source: Hong Kong Fashion Institute of Technology (HKFI)