Fashion design celebrities gather in Qingdao to discuss the inheritance and development of Chinese clothing
On June 19, the 2021 China International Chinese Clothing Design Competition Cultural Seminar Salon was held in the Textile Valley Industrial Park of Qingdao Centennial Textile Base. The Organizing Committee of the China International Chinese Costume Design Competition organizes experts, scholars, designers, and business representatives from both inside and outside the province to discuss innovative paths for Chinese clothing design. At the same time, through the research and initiative of experts and scholars from the Shandong Fashion Design Association, Qingdao Fashion Design Alliance, and Textile Valley Industrial Park, the Qingdao Huafu Culture Research Institute will be established in the Textile Valley, a national fashion creative industrial park, to carry out designs with the theme of Chinese clothing. R&D, cultural communication, industrial chain linkage and other work to create a new highland for Chinese clothing fashion communication and innovative research.
At the cultural seminar salon, Xie Dayong, deputy editor of “Chinese Clothing Art Dictionary” pointed out in a written speech: From the perspective of clothing history, the historical retrospection of Chinese clothing is longer than that of Han clothing, and the national inclusiveness is wider. As a general term for the clothing of the 56 ethnic groups in the country, Chinese clothing is a fashion that can be recognized and accepted by the international community. There is a long way to go to innovate Chinese clothing and transform the time-honored Chinese national design into a modern and fashionable external image.
Faced with the current trend of Hanfu in society, Li Jie, deputy director of the School of Fashion of Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts, believes that this is an emotional expression of historical tracing by people who love traditional culture, but Hanfu is only used to represent the Chinese nation. With the expressions of the times, it is easy to fall into misunderstandings. It is a heavy responsibility to inherit the aesthetics of traditional Chinese clothing, follow the spirit of traditional creation, express Chinese aesthetic culture, and prevent it from becoming a symbol of material consumption.
Zhou Li, one of China’s top ten fashion designers and president of the Shandong Fashion Design Association, pointed out through an online discussion that Chinese clothing is based on Chinese national culture and formed through natural evolution with unique Chinese national culture and style. An excellent traditional quintessence clothing system that is different from other ethnic groups. How to innovate clothing expressions that reflect the spirit of the Chinese nation of the times? The establishment of the Chinese Costume Design Competition in Shandong Province is to advocate the use of etiquette culture to standardize our fashion lifestyle, and encourage designers at home and abroad to deeply explore the elements and unique spiritual and cultural connotations of the Chinese nation to innovate etiquette costumes that represent the image of the country and innovate various ethnic groups. People’s festival costumes are designed to meet the spiritual needs of the wealthy Chinese people who want to show their happy life through costumes.
How to design Chinese clothing that embodies the national spirit? Zhang Chongwei, one of China’s top ten fashion designers and secretary-general of the Qingdao Fashion Designers Alliance, pointed out: Inheriting the traditional beauty of Chinese clothing does not mean copying traditional elements, but integrating traditional Chinese elements into modern fashion, mixing and matching them, transforming them, and colliding with classical styles. A new integration with fashion, incorporating modern fashion into traditional elements, creating a new trend of “ancient style and new charm”.
Chairman Wang Ruixue, one of China’s top ten fabric designers and a gold medal designer in the International Fabric Design Competition, believes that the core of clothing design innovation lies in fabric innovation. Developed modern science and technology have greatly improved the functionality, dressability, and plasticity of traditional style fabrics. There are a large number of companies and brands in China that are committed to tracing the context of Chinese culture and using modern technology to reshape the style of traditional Chinese clothing and brocade. The new generation of Chinese clothing fabrics, creatively designed fashionable Chinese clothing with cultural connotations, has a promising future.
How can Chinese elements be interpreted for the times? Niu Hubing, chairman of Qilu Cultural and Creative Industrial Park of CHINA Commune, has a deep understanding that Shandong’s Confucian culture, including Confucian costumes, is a huge treasure. To innovate Chinese clothing, on the one hand, we must delve deeply into these spiritual and cultural treasures. If we do not go in depth, we can only imitate their surface. It is difficult to achieve superb design. On the other hand, we must have a distant mind and not fall too deep into tradition. Learn from tradition. He abstracted away from abstraction and created completely different costumes.
Cultural diversity is a manifestation of social progress. To innovate in Chinese clothing, we must start with cultural integration and innovation. Yan Yong, chairman of Qingdao Textile Valley Park, believes that fashion has different interpretations at different latitudes. How to integrate the essence of Chinese multi-ethnic culture, integrate design culture and manufacturing culture, fashion culture and consumer culture to innovate the fashion symbols of the Chinese nation, and responsibility major.
What kind of cultural connotation does the Chinese clothing system with its unique national spirit and style embody? Mao Lihui, a well-known fashion critic in China, believes that it is necessary to extract the most representative elements from the extensive and profound national culture, sort out the core values of Chinese elements, build a national fashion culture system, and organize social forces to design and innovate with the spirit of oriental aesthetics and integrate into modern fashion life The traditional Chinese costumes are a systematic project. Although the establishment of the China International Chinese Costume Design Competition has pressed the start button of this huge project, in the face of the rising cultural confidence of the Chinese people and the prosperity of the economy and culture, there is an urgent need for the Chinese nation to build a system of Chinese national spiritual style. There is no time to wait to create heart-warming fashion expressions that best convey the spirit of the nation.
The designers who participated in the seminar focused on innovation in inspiration elements, innovation in symbol elements, innovation in outline elements, innovation in color elements, innovation in fabric material elements, innovation in structural elements, and accessories.In terms of innovation of elements and many other aspects, we discussed the innovation path of Huafu with the expert team. Everyone believes that the great cause of creating national costumes can only be achieved by deeply exploring the etiquette culture of the Chinese nation and the spirit of the times, deeply savoring the traditional charm of Chinese aesthetics, and learning and understanding the essence of Chinese traditional philosophy, aesthetics and other cultures. Only through innovation in the design of clothing can we not only transcend the reference to traditional element shapes, but also achieve the extension of “meaning”. Design innovation can endow Chinese clothing with heavier cultural connotations and spiritual implications.
In order to deepen the research results of this salon event and spread the spirit of Chinese aesthetics, Textile Valley will jointly organize the Qingdao base for the integration of industry and education in Shanxi Crafts, Qingdao University, University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Qingdao Hengxing University of Science and Technology, School of Art and Communication, etc. Professional colleges, industry leaders such as Xiuxianjin brand, build a Chinese clothing innovation and development community with the integration of production, teaching and research as the core, and create an oriental Chinese clothing fashion business card with Qilu cultural style.
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