Study Of Contemporary Fashion Design Under The Influence Of Art Deco

Art Deco, as a popular art style in the last century, has significant influences incontemporary fashion design. The regression of Art Deco means that retro is rapidly comingback and that the new era desires to recall the history. Since the Industrial Revolution in1760s, there are enormous changes in people’s daily life, which were leading by thedevelopments of industrialisation and the World Wars. Females are not only relieved fromtheir bodices, but also entirely release their minds. They started to engage in local communityto follow the thorough society. In addition, the World Wars changed social attitude towardsthe beautiful, the art form gradually produced that both satisfied mechanised producingprocess and classical art style. The generation of Art Deco is not only a reflection of the era,but a result of mixing various art types. Having been influenced by the two kinds of artmovement, it is also affected in its structure by the traditional art from the East Asian, Egypt,Africa, Latin America and other ancient civilization legacy. Art Deco is a mechanicalaesthetics art style, which is famous for its typical line and color. There are a number of talantdesigners who applied this style into the designing of clothing at the very beginning of ArtDeco. With deeply researching the application of Art Deco in the design of modern femaleclothing.The front part of the paper analyses the fundimental theory of the Art Deco andexpresses the result of recent studies all over the world. Firstly, starting from the the origin ofArt Deco, the whole theory is analysed entirely; then, the second chapter expounds thebackground ofthe Art Deco; the third chapter systematically analyses the application of theArt Deco in the classic cases of clothing design; the fourth chapter focuses on Art Deco in theapplication of women’s design; the fifth chapter illustrates the developing direction ofcontemporary Art Deco clothing; at last, it comes to the conclusion and future design researchideas.As a modern designer of female clothes, out aim is to have a better application of the ArtDeco into designing, Thus, this topic would also provide a guideline of other’s research on theapplication of the Art Deco in modern design.