The Application Of Chinese Traditional Elements In Shoe Design

China's shoe-making industry is a traditional industry, design and development capability is relatively weak. For a long time, the mainstream of design is to imitate the style of foreign brands. In existing design team, most designers design products with their own thoughts and customer's requirements. There are some small enterprises make products by modifying popular models from market, which form a model of small companies follow big companies and big companies follow foreign brands.. China's modern shoe design is lack of creativity; the writer gave her opinion of how to innovate traditional elements and how to combine it with shoe design. Used many national award-winning design works as cases, writer combined design elements such as inspiration, design theme, imagination from traditional style elements, chose four aspects from traditional elements - materials, color, pattern and decoration process, to analyze application of traditional style elements in shoe design. The writer held the opinion that only used national culture and traditional elements and deeply understood"Chinese characteristics" as well as learned excellent concepts, methods from foreign countries, and then combined them together, we can created a real "Chinese design" which admitted by the world.