Aesthetic Expression Of Chinese Elements In Modern Women's Clothing

Abstract

The Chinese elements in the field of modern women's clothing design has always been a kind of inspiration source the designer likes. Exploring and excavating Chinese elements of different aesthetic value can provide a new design direction for designers, and then create a new clothing styles and aesthetic concept. The aesthetic value in Chinese elements according to the definition and classification can be divided into three kinds that are pure Chinese, the Chinese in western and Chinese-western aesthetic expression. These three kinds of aesthetic values lead to three different design methods in modern women's clothing which immits the cultural connotation and the spiritual symbol into the Chinese style dress. CHINESE ELEMENTS OVERVIEW The so-called Chinese elements, in general terms, are able to be reflected with the elements of Chinese characteristics. From the perspective of fashion designers, the category of Chinese elements have no boundary. The materials which can provide inspiration for designers, and have the characteristics of Chinese culture or Chinese spiritual can be called with Chinese style design elements. Chinese elements have much varieties. The crossover design is popular in modern design. A fashion designer can seek inspiration from what has Chinese style of architecture for the clothing design in crossover design. Finding inspiration for the design from the building can also be used in the Chinese style clothing. According to the inspiration source in the design of clothing, the Chinese elements in the clothing design in accordance with the shape feature can be divided into two major categories, which are figurative elements and abstract elements. Representational element contains all entities and have a certain style in inspiration origin. It can be everywhere in the unique things of all aspects in everyday life, such as Chinese style of architecture, product design, patterns, characters, animals and plants, etc. It can also be extracted from various cultural fields of typical things. For example, the calligraphy, Chinese painting, Beijing Opera, Chinese zither, face drawing, shadow play, blue and white porcelain from sisters art, etc. Those things are very typical Chinese quintessence, and there are specific characteristics forms. Designers choose the design inspiration from those elements and develop the clothing product after upgrading them a little. It is necessary to dig deep cultural background and development process of the element to design a high level of clothing products, which can be changeful in the hands of designers. Abstract elements is the design element that can reflect Chinese culture and spirits, such as the culture of Taoism, Confucianism spirit, strength in calligraphy, intangible in traditional Chinese painting, artistic conception in tea culture, and so on. They are abstract elements in China which are difficult to control in representational element extraction and to be used in design. To use the medium to express their own clothing element extracted Chinese abstract concepts, designers should not only express the element of artistic conception and the charming performance in the clothing, but also should be enable the wearer to feel the designers idea. Finally, when showing the viewer can understand it, even resonate it. Then it can be called an outstanding clothing design work. That clothing designers extract the design elements from the design thinking to express design concept can be called success. According to the cultural characteristics from different fields, the Chinese elements can also be divided into direct and indirect element. Direct element is that is extracted with Chinese characteristics from clothing design elements in direct, such as Chinese national costumes and folk