A Design Study Of Folk Paper-cut's Application To Fashion Headdress

With the development of business's globalization, multiple cultures join together. Supporting by commerce, mainstream culture has a great influence on the other cultures. Chinese culture has a long history and is a valuable spiritual wealth. It's said that the national is international. Only based on national culture, the design has deep culture root and can get sustainable development. Chinese folk art works carrying the national culture, which are full of fascinating charm, are art forms created by the masses who work them out to satisfy their material and spiritual needs, and the spirit in it is cultural treasures required reserve by inheritance. How can we consider our national culture with a developing opinion, guiding national culture to a more intensive field? It is a theme which all of us must think and discuss.The study selects Chinese paper-cut, one of the Chinese folk arts, as a research object, discussing its application in popular headdress designing, trying to find out a design principle in the process in order to guide the heritage activities of relevant folk art. This subject studies the basic content and performances skills and aesthetic characteristics of folk paper-cut and fashion headdress. Besides, this paper analysis the renaissance mode of folk paper-cut in the context of the new era, and the market conditions of fashion headdress. On this base, the paper studies the relationship and differences between folk paper-cut and fashion headdress. A related diagram is used to study the possibility and the potential market value of using folk paper-cut's elements in fashion headdress designing. Then we find out the method about the application of folk paper-cut in fashion headdress designing. In this paper, practical case is used to study the application of folk paper-cut elements. It's expected that the paper can supply a method for the application of other folk arts in relevant field.