Applying The Fabric Re-design In The Denim Apparel And It's Artistric Expression

During apparel designing process, the designer could present own designing idea by re-designing the current fabric or raw material with different methods, based on the thorough understanding of the material's characteristic. This is what we called fabric re-design. Since the very first day, by using different kinds of fabric re-design, Denim garment continues to present new culture connotation to the public and also keeps prosperous vitality.In the creation of Denim apparel, the fabric re-design mainly used the elements of material, shape, form, texture and color as well as other associated relations like space, structure and lighting etc between different denim fabric and/or with other material, and also combined multiple traditional or modern methods in order to achieve the innovation of denim fabric on denim garment. The fabric re-design of Jeans keeps five characteristics which are diversity, constraints, value-added, unique, artistic features.The re-designing process of denim fabric could be divided into three types:the fabric re-design process mainly for denim apparel, the fabric re-design process mainly for denim fabric and then the re-design process concentrated on both denim fabric and garment.In order to enhance the diversity and artistry of the styles for denim fabric designing, the creation concept for fabric re-designing of the denim apparel has become more open and diversified, also the applying methods has become more widespread and flexible. The creation needs to follow the rules of formal beauty which includes 6 aspects specifically:the unity and change, the reconciliatory and contrast, the proportion of partition and scale, the symmetry and balance, finally the rhythm and tempo.In the creation of denim apparel, the applying of fabric re-design on partial construction can be broken into three detailed methods which are: the use on edge area, the use on centre area and the use on accessories. The designer should emphasis the novelty and unique when applying the re-design of denim fabric on overall style of denim apparel directly. The design should focus on the raw material rather than style, therefore the overall style design requires brief and sprightly.For the re-design of denim fabric, the selection and handling of the artistic expression on designing is a very important step. The effect of the artistic expression is the key point which leads the design creation to success. According to the diversity of garment styles, this essay is focusing on the research in the themes like avant-garde style, sports style, elegant style, casual style, luxury style as well as other themes.The artistic expression on avant-garde styles of denim apparel can be summed up in two aspects:destroyed and dirty. For those elegant styles denim apparel, the major design method is to apply the decoration and the finishing will be limited into the use of light to wash, regular Wash and dark wash. However, the fabric re-designing for casual style denim apparel will focus on the soft and gentle texture comparison among different materials. When using the fabric re-designing to perform the sports style denim garment, the specific western-style symbol of denim fabric needs to be weakened while the re-design effects on denim fabric will be adjusted by using the design elements like sport-styles material, color and shape.The fabric re-design in the luxury style denim apparel highly emphasized the decoration and embellishment on the garment, The repeat using of same decoration methods could be enhanced for multiple time and meanwhile designer could also use diversified design ways. And the fabric- redesign can be applied on the partial construction as well as the general style of the garment. In the creation of ethnic and folk-style denim apparel, designer could keep the internal nature of the denim garment as well as using the enternal shape of the denim fabric in order to re-creat the apparel with other ethnic folk-style.