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“Fashion Art”
A dialogue between concept and reality
China Women’s University, ZHANG Tingting
As fashion evolves to where it is today, its function is no longer lim-ited to wear-ability and aesthetics, instead, it has become an important element to highlight personal characteristics, social status, aesthetic taste, and to distinguish social groups and features of socialization. Besides, the symbolic meaning conveyed by fashion has become more prominent. With the change of culture, economy and politics, and the development of technology and materials, it has been gradually separated from the functional needs in the traditional sense and is extending to the field of public art. Meanwhile, its features of the times are also revealed. “Fashion Art”, however, is an art form that expresses ideas directly with fashion as its carrier. Its obvious difference from fashion lies in wear-ability. For fashion art, it can be considered that wear-ability is no longer its essential attribute. In the last decade, “Fashion Art” has entered China with a strong artistic force. Artists have taken the initiative to participate in creation and regular exhibitions, which has become an artistic phenomenon with initial international influence.
China has a long history in traditional culture, as it has been called “the country of dress and righteousness” since ancient times. The splendid cul-ture has formed high-level moral principles, complete etiquette norms and excellent traditional virtues. The profound cultural heritage represented by “civilization” has accumulated vast space for reconstruction. Therefore, from my point of view, Chinese “Fashion Art” must embrace a distinct local temperament in order to be more international. From the analysis of Chinese symbolic elements and traditional elements, we can draw nutri-tion from traditional colors, traditional pattern symbols, elements and the spirit of traditional clothing and costume. Chinese “Fashion Art” should be based on the traditional context to carry out research. At present, it should integrate ancient and modern forms of expression to construct modern fashion art language, in order to seek a way of integration and inheritance of traditional culture and contemporary art, and thus create contemporary “Fashion Art” works with Chinese national brand.
The main raw materials of my “Fashion Art” works in recent years were silk from China. “The fragrance of books with silky whispers” series
36 China Textile
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