The Applicational Study On The Harlequin's Costume Element Of The Commedia Dell'arte In Fashion Design

The Commedia dell'arte is a style of theater common in Italy from the 16th to 18th centuries, popular for its programmed characters and standardized storyline.is no written rule of its script but scenarios, actors improvise their performance basis on their self-cultivation, society experiences, and circumstances of that moment. So the actors of Commedia dell'arte should be experienced and versatile, proficient on poetry recitation even acrobatics. Troupes of Commedia dell'arte is the combination of families, the technique is delivered down from generation to generation. Dramatist Gore-Tony call them "Noah's Ark", because they had house-hold been with the troupe all through their Europe tour, even live stock and fowl.Commedia dell'arte with its glorious history and the deep culture accumulates is great popular all over the Europe even the worldwide. The costume and mask serve for the performance, at the same time embodies the features of that era.In this paper, study the "harlequin" costume in Commedia dell'arte as Breakthrough Point, split the various elements of their costumes, researched on the applications of these elements combined with modern fashion design, which is innovations of this article. The main contents and achievement of this research are as follows:1. An overview of the origin and development of Commedia dell'arte, performance forms and sites for performances, actors and troupes, personality characteristics of "harlequin" and the reasons for the use of masks;2. Contrast the characteristics between the European apparel and "harlequin" costume, Sum up the design principles of "harlequin" costume in Commedia (?)arte;3. Extracted the representative elements of "harlequin" costume, Combined with the internal and overseas design work to analyze, then concludes the design methods commonly used in "harlequin" theme apparel, so as to explain the elements of "harlequin" costume how to apply to modern fashion design;4. Combined with Cases analysis, study the principle of formal beauty how to apply in "harlequin" theme apparel design, explained the aesthetics connotation of this kind. Through the relatively total study of above contents, established a theoretical basis of "harlequin style" which is prevalent on the international runway, explored the underlying commonality of their popularity, find the combination points of traditional and modern, and find the source of design inspiration in order to facilitate and reference for fashion design, but also to enjoy the unique artistic charm of "harlequin" from a deeper level.