The Studies And Application Of The Yao Nationality Clothing Element In Mrodern Fashion Design

The clothing of Yao nationality is varied and beautiful. It is one of the most characteristic clothing in the ethnic clothing. According to the characteristic of the Yao nationality, the application and studies on the element of Yao's clothing used in modern fashion design has been explored in this paper.The style of Yao's finery is various. According to the preliminary statistics, the quantity of styles much reaches 100 kinds, the quantity of the head ornaments is more than 100 varieties. It is actually rare for so many different styles in one nationality, and has extremely high research value. However, there are few literature, which mainly researched and applied on the characteristics of Yao's clothing and its using in the modern fashion design. Therefore, it is especially important to do the full and detail research and development on the Yao nationality clothing in this research area.To the practical research on the Yao nationality clothing element used in the modern fashion design, there are several stages in this paper: First, it elaborates the historical root and the cultural connotation of the Yao nationality clothing.Secondly, with the all-sided collection and the systemic neaten, it concludes the characteristic of the Yao's clothing from the color, pattern, style and technology and others.Thirdly, it compares the Yao's clothing with the modern fashion, and discusses the comparability between them. With the contrast of the same or similar characters between them, it summarizes the form and rule of the nationality element used on the modern fashion.Fourthly, it discusses the innovative application of the Yao nationality's element used on the modern fashion. It concludes the methods to use it in the modern fashion design with the characters of the Yao's elements. It designs a series of fashion used the Yao nationality's element to evidence the content above.The research in this paper not only has enriched the field of the Yao nationality clothing culture, but also has a great practical significance of today's fashion circle. On one hand, it excavates the essence of Chinese folk costumes, and saves the declining national dress. On the other hand it has applying and theory value to save and develop the distillation of national clothing and apply them to the modern society.