Learning From The Past And Be Innovative

The Chinese nation,praised as "A Kingdom of Clothes and Ornaments",has a long history and splendid culture,which is also an apotheosis of the world's clothing culture. As a big clothes manufacture country, China should take part in the imminent competion by designing fashionable clothes using traditional modeling elements that reflect Chinese characteristics. China's traditional Modeling art has a profound cultural background and vast space for re-creation, both of which are the exhaustible innovative sources for designers. Through in-depth study of traditional Chinese Modeling arts and the cultural connotation, this thesis explores the application of traditional Chinese elements in the fashion design today.This thesis elaborates this issue from the following aspects:Part I: illustrating in details the related concepts, connotation and artistic characteristics of the traditional modeling elements.Part II: Elaborating the developing trend of uniting individualism and humanism, tradition and innovation in modern clothes design notions; forwarding new ideas and building up the theoretical basis and practical requirements of traditional modeling elements in modern clothes design by comparing the design of ancient and modern clothes.Part III: Exploring the application of the design means and application methods of China's traditional modeling elements in modern clothes design on the basis of the analysis of traditional and modern aesthetics and analysis of the General Clauses of traditional modeling elements in modern clothes design; forwarding the idea of following the principle of decorative and practical unity and inheritance and innovation unity.Part IV: Analyzing and comparing the differences of designers at home and abroad in applying traditional modeling elements, thus understanding the differences in their application forms and design thinking.Part V: Citing examples to explain the application of traditional modeling elements of traditional Chinese fashion designers.Part VI: Analyzing the market of applying the traditional modeling elements in modern fashion design In short, how to make traditional Chinese modeling revive and perfectly combine with modern fashion design is the issue that this thesis is dedicated to explore. We firmly believe that the perfect application of traditional modeling elements in modern fashion design will certainly enable China's garment industry develop steadily globe-widely.