Aesthetic Of Xiangxi Hmong Clothing And Applied Research Of Fashion Design

Hmong clothing study were origianted from the folklorists’ fieldwork in Xiangxi in early20th century. Hmong culture is an important branch of the WUCHU culture, in the ancient,the arts and cultural characteristics were close with Chu. Hmong and the Han nationality hasfrequent exchanges, the certain patterns in their clothing, such as dragons, phoenix areinflunced deeply by the Han nationality clothing. They live in the mountains, the ancient warof movement, thinking of fairy tales and the witching make their worldview and values areassociated with nature. The maple pattern, butterfly pattern, fish pattern, Panhu patternsrepresent the people’reverences for nature and desire for the simple thinking that they havemore happiness if they have more descendants.Hmong clothing’colors and production process are derived from nature. The clothing’patterns and accessories are also the abstraction of natural scenery, and then create themflexibly. The people especially love the pattern of "butterflies infatuate flowers " and "flowersand birds" series, their clothing’ breast, cuffs, belt, apron, legs and trousers roots andembroidered shoes are all reflect this theme, this is the symbol that the people are lookingforward the good life. The aesthetic characteristics of the Xiangxi Hmong clothing comesfrom its beauty of nature, creation and harmony, they mix the real world and imaginal world,achieve the present colorful Xiangxi Hmong clothing.There are a lot of Chinese elements in the modern fashion design, especially the extensiveuse of the minority element, bring a new fashion trend. In these brands’ fashion designs likeShanghai Beach, LieBo and Vivienne Tam, a lot of the Xiangxi elements such as the butterflypattern and dyeing, etc. is used, then the Miao nationality costume elements appears on the Tstation of the world, accepted by more people. But the Xiangxi Hmong clothing itself was indanger of disappearing; the protection of this "living fossil" becomes a top priority. Businessmodel and the local clothing design’ combining, taking the brand line will be the feasible waythe Xiangxi Hmong clothing can be saved down.