Deconstruction And Compromise

Post-modernism, a main trend of thought of western society in the latter half of 20th century, greatly influenced the fashion design from 1970s to present, which mainly reflects on the technique of deconstruction and eclectic adopted widely in the Post-modernism fashion design.The purpose of the Deconstruction of the Post-modernism fashion design is to broke the traditional regularity of fashion design, whose concrete expression including four aspects: the deconstruction of the traditional meaning, of the structure, of the material, and of the pattern. Various technique of deconstruction display various forms of deconstructive design, deformity become vogue, sex appeal and eroticism can be showed off, the modelling of costume surmount the structure of body, the choice of the material and pattern are more variously. In short, deconstructive fashion design spread out new space for western fashion design, while deconstructing legitimacy, authority, mainstream and regularity.The Eclecticism of the Post-modern fashion design is the extend of the Deconstruction, the embodiment of design technique of eclecticism mixes the conception of the time and breakes various kinds of styles on purpose. It piled the element of varied age, nation and area that realignment of modelling, color and material. It is an eclectic, integrated method that compromises the elements whose styles once were opposite, such as elegant and exoteric, traditional and advance guarded, historical and modern, etc., with a black humor-style joke and irony.The author expect to help the field of fashion design to unscramble the fashion conception and trends in the present western fashion design, through the primary exploration of the Deconstruction and Eclecticism of the western Post-modern fashion design. It supplies information background for Chinese fashion designers to make reference of designing technique of Post-modernism, even helping Chinese costume going toward the word.