Research On The Western "Chinoiserie" Clothing Design In The Early 21st Century

In Europe,’Chinoiserie’ is a long-standing artistic style.It began in the 17 th century and became popular from the 17 th to the 18 th century.Various fabricated travelogues,Eastern exported works of art to Europe,and even imitations created by Europeans imitating Eastern art are all providing nourishment for the emergence and development of the "Chinese style".Therefore,the ’Chinoiserie’ has had a strong subjectivity,hybridity,and independence since its inception.Europe even created ’Chinoiserie’ to refer to this type of art.In the 19 th century,with the further understanding of real China in Europe and the boredom with Rococo’s ’Chinoiserie’ flashy stacking style,like many European fashion trends,’Chinoiserie’ was temporarily replaced by new trends.However,in future history,the ’Chinoiserie’ has still been continued and expanded.In the 21st century,with the process of globalization,the ’Chinoiserie’ has presented new characteristics of the times,generated new significance of the times,and has gained strong development in the field of Western fashion.Western ’Chinoiserie’ clothing has also widely entered the sight of Chinese people.This means that this secondary art,originating from other ethnic cultures,needs to face the gaze and criticism of its original environment,thereby losing its original state of autonomy.The actual situation is that the ’Chinoiserie’ design has indeed caused a lot of displeasure and controversy.At the same time,it is now an important task for Chinese designers to explore and activate Chinese culture and establish a design system with Chinese characteristics.Although the mission and significance are different,both Chinese local design and Western’Chinoiserie’ are understanding and interpreting "Chinese culture".Faced with the same theme,there is an undeniable observation between the two.Starting from the differentiation and analysis of the concept of ’Chinoiserie’,this article focuses its research on the Western clothing design inspired and inspired by Chinese culture.Provide a brief overview of ’Chinoiserie’ fashion and construct a research background.Subsequently,specific design cases will be introduced,and high-frequency styling elements related to Chinese culture will be sorted out from representative clothing designs.At the same time,focusing on the postmodern context,we will deeply analyze the design concepts and methodology of Western designers in the early 21 st century for ’Chinoiserie’ clothing styling.Subsequently,a multidimensional evaluation was conducted on the ’Chinoiserie’ clothing design in the early 21 st century,and design ideas worth learning from local Chinese designers were extracted from it.Finally,the implementation of the Western ’Chinoiserie’ clothing design methodology in the early21 st century and graduation practice will be explored to explore its feasibility.