Research On The Application Of Metal Material In Fashion Design

The developments of clothe material through a long-term process. The use of natural fiber as tree leaves, animal skin, wool, silk and linen from the ancient, nowadays all kinds of chemical fiber have been introduced, as well as the research and development of high-tech functional clothing fabric, the thoughts limited of fashion textile are breaking down gradually to a widen and broaden direction. Clothing fabric with the continuous development and progress, garments from the original use of cover bodies represent modesty to today’s decoration; show personality; and a trendy tool to highlighting social level. From the primarily goal that is keep warm turn to high technology textile using in fireproof jumpsuit, bulletproof vest, spacesuit. It can be said that the development of fashion has close relevance with the improvement of clothe material, along with the progress of human civilization and development of technology.Metal is hardly relevant with fashion. Because of the solid material, cold texture, heavy quality, with generally understanding, metal exist as a solid material, casting utensils and weapon in a quite long period of time. With no sense of comfortable, even harmful, metal has a protective effects is been used in clothing equipment, mostly are made to jewelry or embroidery in clothing which in the form of precious expensive metal, rarely as a clothe material. During the social improvement, economy development, technological advancement, metal material shows to the public awareness freshly, impact on the traditional cognitive and aesthetic knowledge.The luster of metal material presents luxury or cold temperament, which is important in the overall atmosphere of the final look. In fashion structure design, a smart use of the solid feature and easily shaped characteristic can shake off the regular vision, and presenting a fresh look.The application of metal material is more fluently in fashion, but the research in this area is rare especially in China. Therefore, this dissertation is aiming on this direction. Through the analysis and compare the application of metal material in western and eastern fashion history and national costume, induction and summarize the metal material apply on the ancient costumes and ethnic minority costumes, and traditional metal processing techniques. From different factors, such as psychological factor, social factor, technological factor and trend factor, analysis the cognitive change of the metal materials application of clothing design. At the end, combine with the preliminary studies, and study the work of the home and abroad designer, as well as practice, analysis and summarized the metal materials application in different forms and methods in fashion design.The application form:1.Decoration form2.Inner material form3.Structure formThe application method:1.On top of fabric method2.Under the fabric method3.Use the metal material independently methodThe combination of metal material and fashion design is not only contribute the innovation of visual image, improve the living standards, but also bring a new revolution to the whole costume design development.