The Zen Clothing Design Study

As a kind of human culture, the clothing has been inherited by people’s wearing. It is the record of real life and the material embodiment of spiritual connotation. Life is born with trouble, for purity, more and more people are choosing to follow heart, seeking inner calm and cool, thus Zen has become a necessary way of life.Zen clothing is one of the most representative of Chinese traditional culture, style unique, present the Silence, Concise, Elegant visual aesthetic feeling. Zen clothing is based on and modified from monk clothes, which is also a recognition of Zen Buddhism culture. In this paper, from the use of Zen aesthetics in modern clothing, it explores the expression of Zen in the clothing design language, innovates from the existing form of language, with flexible design methods, and summarize the Zen clothing design conception in implicit and abstract language, strive to make the wearer with an consistent feeling from the outer and inner.The reason for studying the innovative design and theory of the Zen clothing is to fill the demand of Zen clothing market. Due to the lack of data and information, the induction of the cases of foreign Zen clothing design has some shortcomings. The author strive to resonate from Zen aesthetics and clothing design,and pursue the harmony of art and Zen through the interaction of the traditional Oriental Zen with the times. while studying the Zen aesthetics, the author integrates the inspiration into fashion design to look for a larger space filling with creativity and design for the specific image of the Zen clothing, achieving the unity of the spirit and quality clothing, the Zen clothing full of spiritual, quietness, simplicity, comfortableness.