The Study On Position Of Vietnam Traditional Color And Its Innovative Use In Modern International Exchange Fashion Design

Ethnic color is a chromatographic system and combination of specialgeographical culture of some nation. It resulted from nation, nature, aesthetic psychologyand history, but also the priceless, harmonious and balanced aesthetic principle of nation.Exploring national culture is becoming more and more urgent with the integration of theglobal economy and the development of culture. The innovation of ethnic color has alreadybecome an essential part of the modern design.Since ancient times, every nation has its distinctive color system. The structureof ethnic color system derives its unique geographic features. The research about “thegeography of color” from the color design master Lankoro has proved: each region has itstraits that constitute the local color, and the traits result in the chromatographic system andits combination which is full of special cultural meaning. The unique color effect has beencreated because of the color combination from different graphic culture. Ethnic color istraditional and the result of long-term historical accumulation. Ethnic color embraced inpowerful life of nation is not static but evolutionary and it just likes mysterious totemworship. Its rhythm and password has never disappeared. The development of Ethnic coloris always existent and changeable in a national temperament.The innovation of ethnic color is a combination of ethnic color and moderndesign. Rebuild the ethnic color according to the ideas of modern design and make it notonly nationality but also modernity which is considered to be simply, general and abstract.Make it combine with modern society. The innovation of ethnic color is to keep the core ofethnic color and make it modernization. In recent years, the influence of ethnic color styleis bigger and bigger and the application of it has become more and more wide outside its special geographic areas, which is a inevitable consequence of the global economicintegration.In modern design, the innovation of ethnic color should avoid two extremes. oneis not to copy the ancient color directly. No matter how wonderful the traditional color is,the modern art can not copy the ancient ideas simply. The people, their way of life,technology, natural condition, aesthetic concept and so on determined the traditional colorof that time. If we always imitate what the ancient people did stiffly in fashion design,architectural design, interior design, textile design and industrial design, we will lose thesignificance of creative design. On the other hand, emphasizing the importance of creationis not sticking to copy the foreign style heavily. In the past few years, our design copied thewest completely regardless of our national condition and aesthetic. Many young designersdisregard tradition and prefer quick success and some designers do not learn from nativeculture. If things go on like this, the spirit of their work will disappear. The work which istruly long-lasting and belong to the nation finally will be the fresh living things that growon the basis of inheriting native culture.The dissertation studies the ethnic color of Vietnam. To know what theperformance of using the traditional color of Vietnam in clothing is by analyzing andcomparing the papers about ethnic color basing on searching a lot of documents at homeand abroad in view of aspects of characteristics of Vietnamese tradition. Collect plenty ofimages about ethnic color and the experts choose and classify these images to determinethe samples. Find out the color and color combination which best represents theVietnamese tradition by factor analysis, cluster analysis and classified treatment.By studying, analyzing and locating the traditional color of Vietnam, this thesisintroduced a new way to study the national elements which is helpful for designers toexplore the traditional features and use it by an appropriate way in creative design.