Chinese traditional elements in modern fashion design

Zhang Sanjin

【Abstract】：As the essence of art and culture，Chinese traditional elements in modern fashion design plays an irreplaceable role.Flash of Chinese fabrics，gorgeous national color，the traditional order of the phoenix，such as the Chinese auspicious patterns，dish buckle，those with the most distinctive features of the nations of Chinese element is increasingly designers used in fashion design，become the important means of present Chinese amorous feelings.

【Key Words】：Chinese elements；clothing design；traditional features

The so-called"Chinese elements"is a typical Chinese national characteristics of design elements，these elements include： the Chinese silk，brocade，color design elements，these elements include：the Chinese silk；cheongsam，Chinese tunic suit，mandarin，vented style；peony，Long characters such as decorative patterns；Bright red，colorful ethnic color；Set，embroidery and other Chinese crafts.

Throughout good clothing design work，pay attention to traditional culture and fashion are combined together. As the essence of art and culture，Chinese elements in modern fashion design plays a unique role，is the important way to express beauty of personality.In many Chinese elements，can reflect Chinese characteristics is the most traditional fabrics，traditional color， traditional pattern，the use of traditional craft.

1.China's traditional fabrics in the application of modern clothing design

Fabrics is a material base，it directly decides the style of clothing design and style.With the rapid development of textile technology，various new fabrics to modern costume design brought infinite imaginary space.But traditional fabric style remains irreplaceable charm，silk，satin，brocade， linen，and blue calico fabric has a strong Chinese characteristics，on the stage of the modern garment design play an important role，for modern fashion design adds a rich culture and unique ethnic customs.

2.Chinese traditional colour brings amazing of modern fashion design

Color is a visual language the loudest in the clothing，can fully reflect the personality of dresser.Different colors convey different feelings，such as the red represents the enthusiasm，brave，green generation table is superior，and calm，yellow is a symbol of wealth and honor，blue is a symbol of peace and reason.Red，yellow，blue，green is the traditional color of China.Red，also known as"China red"，this shows that it has been applied widely in Chinese traditional decoration.Mentioned in the international fashion arena，can let a person think of red China，especially red and green in Chinese traditional clothes the most widely used.Golden color is yellow，was chamber of special color.In Chinese traditional costume culture，give a person with yellow grandeur，majesty，sacred feeling.Yellow with its peculiar bright and gorgeous is widely used in all kinds of clothing design，give a person the sense with showily elegance.

3.The essence of Chinese traditional design often becomes the modern fashion design

Chinese traditional pattern in China is characterized of regionality and nationality， widespread traditional schema.In this type of graph is not only in rich and colorful，but also contains profound cultural connotation.Early Chinese traditional graphics to point to by carving， painting，writing，printing，and so on manipulation of symbols，such as traditional pottery，stone， bronze vessel，lacquer，carving，calligraphy，painting，or grain appearance and decoration，etc. Chinese traditional graphic generalized refers to all visibility into visual forms，such as traditional opera，folk dance，traditional architecture，classical garden art style，etc.Those with rich traditional means of often a source of inspiration for designers. The most representative clothing design in China have，bound back cushion to spend，tc.The pattern in China's feudal society is the special design of the royal，with a strong totem trace，but in the folk has been changed to use on the adornment of the clothing，such as spends on fabric，have"show peony""dragon born nine son"，etc.In modern fashion design，improved the traditional figure case with Chinese characteristics is widely used in all kinds of performance clothing design，designers through the embroidery，printing and dyeing，hand-painted，stick the different craft technique，such as embroidery，weaving the design decoration in a variety of clothing and accessories processing.

4.China's traditional craft in the modern fashion design

The traditional Chinese clothing is planar linear cutting，emphasizing the plane decoration， decoration methods including traditional set，embedded，rolling，plate，embroidered several big process.Clever use of the process，make Chinese clothing modelling concise，but grain appearance colorful，beautiful.By utilizing the method of flat embroidery decorative clothing surface space，it is the dominant hand of Chinese style costume design method.Especially the ring of the embroidery craft and silk fabrics， make clothing full of Oriental verve.In recent years，with the popular again of tang suit，inlay，embedded，rolling，plate，embroidered several big technology is widely used in modern clothing design，becoming a fashionable ornament.

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