Research On The Elements Of Contemporary Women's Wear Design

Our society is undergoing a profound innovation of conception. As a principalsort of design, fashion design have close relationship with our daily life. The thinking mode and methodology of fashion design are bound to transform with the change of our conception. As a representative of fashion clothing, the transformation of women's wear reflects this conception change clearly: the design of women's wear becoming more humanity and many-faceted, and seeking the personal fabricate of parts of products. Analyse the women's wear as a system, the min-design language which make-up the system is design elements. Design elements not only are the substance of clothing, but also are the medium in fashion disseminating. They composed wiith some rules in the process of the design. Clothing is the result of composing of various elements. The concept of elements is always used in the working of fashion design, but the full-scale expound is lacked. By synthesizing the new character of newadays socirty and the feature of the system, refering to the rules of art design, research on the rules of the design of women's wear can make us a new design thingking mode, enrich the theory of fashion design, and make the design of women's wear to be more reasonable. With the study of the elements of women's wear, wo can make conclusions as follow:1. Analysed with the viewpoint of system theory, women's wear can looked as a system which is composed by some elements related each other. The design of women's wear can also looked as a process of the composing of some elements.2. The subject matter of women's wear design is wide-ranging, they can be arrtanged to 7 categories: classic, natural, men's wear, art, traditional, ethnic, science.3. The elements of women's wear design can be sorted as shape, popularity'degree and new-create'degree. To sorted as shape, they can ben arranged to: silhouette, interior structure, colour, pattern, material, craft and accessary; to sorted as popularity'degree, they can be arranged to out-elements, basic-elements and prevailing elements; to be sorted as new-create'degree, they can be arranged to extant elements and innovative elements.4. Except of some common rules with other art design, the design elements of women's wear abide by some specific rules such as exaggerate, repeat, locomotion, scatter, scale and echo.5. In today' society, fashion come to be changeable, manyfaceted and unsured, the prevalence of fashion is also a complicated system, it consist of many subsystems. During the process of fashion disseminating, elements transmit the fashion massages, take shape of the fashion style and establish the fashion pattern.6. Indigenization of the international fashion elements is very important to our interior fashion designer. To take use of the style of elements can produce a harmony of brand's style and prevailing style.