The clothing culture is the brightest content of Jin xiu Yao Nationality, which reflects its humanistic style, living customs, aesthetic habits and social status. The paper conducts a comprehensive and multi-cross study of the Jin xiu Yao’s clothing culture from the aspects of humanities, design, costume aesthetics, psychology for clothes wearing, structure with literature and field research. It summarizes the ways to apply Yao’s clothing culture to the modern clothes design, and has specific analysis of some design cases.The paper is divided into three parts. Firstly, it expounds the historic and culture meaning of the Jin xiu Yao’s clothing culture. Then, it sums up its styles, patterns, colors matching ways and accessories. Later, the paper conducts a feasibility analysis on how to apply Yao’s clothing culture to the modern society from the relations between Yao’s and modern clothes, national elements at home and abroad used in modern clothes design. Finally, we analyze present innovative designs of Yao’s clothing elements and its applications. |