Research And Application Of Chinese Cheongsam Dress Element In Modern Fashion Design

Cheongsam has Chinese nation’s vivid characteristics, it represents Chinese nation’s traditional classic type and implicates rich national spirit and value orientation, it was named Chinese women’s national "Nation apparel". The cheongsam is certainly moving to the world and influencing the world by its unique charm, deep culture, promoting the apparel’s exchange and cooperation in every nation, and realizing Chinese cheongsam promotion and prosperity in a new development space and more development opportunity.China cheongsam dress rich and brilliant colors, unique style, meaningful and far-reaching dress patterns, an important source of exquisite embroidery, inlaid process can become a fashion designer to develop creative design inspiration, create incomparable costumes. One of the world’s most famous fashion designer, top clothing brand Pierre Cardin founder Pierre Cardin once commented:"In the evening design in me, a large part of works inspired by China cheongsam." It shows that Chinese cheongsam dress elements play a decisive role in the national and international design industrial’s position.The thesis tried by sight of cheongsam from the angle of China and world based on the background of Chinese modern society culture. It studied the cheongsam again from the angle of sociology, aesthetics and economics by using the ways of lengthways analysis and lateral comparison, case investigation and reasoning, and collecting sorting out pictures and so on. In the age of "culture powers country" which develops national excellent culture, the study of this topic has a realistic significance, no matter physical side and spiritual side, it can give a guide for apparel sight field and promote Chinese apparel culture’s taste. The topic can make the traditional culture-cheongsam shinning in the new age, leading the fashion by it’s unique beauty, and realizing the inheritance, innovation and development of cheongsam culture, making it standing erect in the forest of world apparel culture.The thesis was studied as follows four parts:The first part, it traced the root and development course and make a through inquiry about the apparel culture.The second part, it studied the cheongsam’s modeling elements and characteristics from the elegant figure refined details, color, gorgeous decoration.The third part, it analyzed the state and exemplification of cheongsam’s beauty from cheongsam’s natural beauty, elegance beauty, the aesthetic characteristics and cultural characteristics.The forth part, it probed the application and expression of cheongsam’s beauty in fashion design.