Chinese Opera Art Expressive Features Application In Fashion Design

Opera art as one of the representative forms of traditional Chinese culture, with its unique charm on stage attracts people’s attention, its charm exists not only under the colorful performances, more deep in the profound cultural connotation, and many types of Chinese opera arts, according to incomplete statistics, about hundreds, opera costumes is dazzling everywhere, the essence of this article is not about opera costumes to type, style, and style features, not to explain the opera performances in the form of a subtle. But the drama art under the background of Chinese traditional culture, combing the existing theoretical research and design practice, further from the image, virtual, songs, dances, and the program four aspects: proof of opera art expression and costume design in the form and content of various related. Borrow by opera art expressive features are used in the design and practice of clothing, in order to for the connotation and understanding of opera art, develop a new perspective, thus further in theory explore drama and clothing human spirit as the carrier of culture, of traditional cultural heritage in the form and method, ethnic style in fashion design form to find some new ideas and methods.Data show that the previous studies about opera and clothing, in theory only tends to in the study of Chinese opera costume itself, did not put the design practice to rise to the height of the theory to discuss, and therefore do not have method and logic of the system; in practice although previous opera as inspiration applied to fashion design, but most of them are starting from the beauty in form of opera costumes, in pattern, color and process to learn without really relates to the opera art characteristic of the content, not from the opera with traditional aesthetic elements of the of deep mining and application.The design practice as the basis, try to put their own understanding of the drama form, connotation and characters, with opera and clothing are virtual, freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, exaggeration and deformation art practices, in costume design work. In the application of traditional Chinese opera culture in the design of clothing, it makes a different point of view. Using literature research method, inductive method, macro and micro combined analysis and theory with practice methods, combined with the principles of clothing design and aesthetics theory, to tease out the opera and costume design common principles and content, which results in the two aspects of theory and practice experience.