The Application Of Chinese Traditional Costume Elements In Contemporary Costume Design

Fashion is an important symbol of human civilization, is worn on the person’s "culture" and "history", both its wealth of material properties, there are valuable spiritual connotation. Human society through the primitive society to civilization, has beautify their clothing shelter from the initial warm body, and later decorated, it is a historical progress. Day apparel originated from, people had to their customs, aesthetic taste, color preferences, as well as various cultural mentality, religious ideas are being deposited on clothing, apparel built into a unique culture.Opera costumes colorful, exquisite, is an important part of Chinese clothing culture. Drama dress is one of the shaping role of the external image of artistic means to embody the role of identity, age, personality, ethnic and occupational characteristics, and display works of art in a particular opera era, life situations, such as customs and regulations, it is subordinate to China traditional costume drama theater arts, are " impressionistic art system " in order "for the character’s vivid lyrical " services to the highest aesthetic pursuit of goals, with a strong formal beauty and artistic beauty. Its exquisite style design, colorful colors, complex patterns and delicate embroidery, make-up event in the Chinese clothing culture to leave valuable asset, but also become one of the important sources of inspiration for modern fashion design.In this paper, the use of Chinese opera costumes and contemporary fashion design as the main object of study characteristics and cultural connotation of the opera costumes conclude and summarize, and draw the appropriate conclusions. Articles from the nature of apparel and clothing talking opera, opera costumes to explore formal beauty image beauty, artistic beauty aesthetic sense; then the context of the development of opera costumes were summarized and finishing systems, through the various periods of the Qing Dynasty Qin until different line of business as well as contemporary opera costume drama features summarization summarize characteristics and cultural connotation opera costumes, which has a program of opera costumes, dancing and decorative can be a general feature of the opera costumes in the style, color, patterns and fabric elements carried out a detailed analysis, combined with a large number of domestic and foreign design case, to explore their design in modern fashion design, law, as well as the problems and focus on the analysis of several well-known designers in the use of drama Fashion design elements work and results, and finally discuss the drama dress element extends to the use of other types of design.Previous scholars in the study of Chinese opera costumes, focus only on the study of traditional Chinese opera costumes theory, few people between traditional opera costumes for costume design and modern active exploration, conventional discussion of clothing styles are confined, analysis of colors, patterns, fabrics, etc., discussion is not deep enough. Undoubtedly, just past the traditional opera costumes and summarized is not enough in today’s society need is inheritance and innovation, lack of innovation is not traditional elements into modern design. Modern designers is to use more modern language of art, design re-interpretation of the element. Therefore, we choose a large number of traditional Chinese opera costumes element or elements inspired costume design, aims to analyze the relevant elements and the corresponding effect of the use of the law in order to better guide the contemporary design practice. Through discussion, the main conclusions obtained are as follows:First, Chinese opera costume with its distinctive programming, unique aesthetic can dance and become a wonderful work of decorative art in the world, the need for its modern aesthetic sense be rethought second, the elements of drama and colorful costumes, styles, colors, patterns and fabrics has its own unique personality and beauty of form, may be used by contemporary fashion design and innovation as well as other areas designed to give today’s designers endless inspiration; third, traditional Chinese culture, there are many things worth the depth of excavation, Chinese opera costumes such profound artistic interpretation of actually being profound essence of Chinese culture, many foreign designers are positive elements from the opera costumes inspiration, domestic designers need to extract elements from the opera costumes costumes language to enrich their own designs.