Chinese textile intangible cultural heritage traditional craft blends into contemporary fashion design
Sep 18, 2021 ｜ by Xiao Ying
“Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Brilliance in the Orient” creative Hanfu show was held in Beijing’s new cultural landmark Longfu Cultural Square on September 15 during Beijing Fashion Week. China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Promotion Ambassador Zhang Yichao and YUE BAST Chief Designer Wang Shuer jointly held a big show of oriental aesthetics and creativity, which is the Chinese textile intangible cultural heritage traditional craftsmanship combined with contemporary fashion design, presenting the 72nd anniversary of New China with the cultural confidence of the textile and garment people.
Hanfu needs to be inherited, and it needs to be innovated
The works presented at the show all focus on inheritance and innovation, and use a variety of textile intangible cultural heritage crafts.
The theme of this work by Zhang Yichao, China’s textile intangible cultural heritage promotion ambassador and designer of the Golden Top Award, is “Five Stars from the East Benefit China”. The creative inspiration of his work comes from the national treasure cultural relic “Five Stars from the East Benefit China” brocade in the Han Dynasty. The modern brocade, embroidery and other intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship are used to make Hanfu fashionable.
Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Promotion Ambassador, Designer Zhang Yichao and her works
This design work combines the characteristics of Han Dynasty clothing, embroidered with patterns from cultural relics, combines the designer’s usual good at color blocking, etc., using traditional methods to express the integration of contemporary fashion and Chinese traditional culture, trying to arouse people’s enthusiasm for traditional patterns, so as to inherit the Chinese traditional patterns of “Five Stars from the East Benefit China”.
Wang Shuer, chief designer of YUE BAST, presents another style in her works: the color of clothing blends into the elements of Dunhuang color system, obtains color inspiration from nature, and presents the smart and refined beauty of this series with simple and elegant silhouette and natural fabrics such as mulberry silk.
The works released adopt the plant-dyed technology jointly developed by the Jiangnan Branch of CTA and distinguished expert, and the inheritor of the plant-dyed intangible cultural heritage, Mr. Huang Ronghua, which combines the ancient traditional dyeing and printing process with modern industry, and realizes reasonable and effective industrialized Chinese fashion and cultural textile products.
Mr. Huang Ronghua, the inheritor of the plant-dyed intangible cultural heritage (third from right, front row) and Designer Wang Shuer (fourth from left, front row)
The great mass fervor of Hanfu is the awakening of local cultural identity
Hanfu is an important part of Chinese civilization and a traditional national costume of the Han nationality that has been inherited for thousands of years. Hanfu is becoming a new trend of popular culture, which not only represents the self-expression of traditional and modern culture, but also carries the Chinese national spirit. Today’s great mass fervor of Hanfu is the awakening of China’s local cultural identity.
Besides the beautiful Hanfu in this show, Han Dynasty headdress design and makeup are displayed in this creative show.
Hanfu is not only a kind of beauty and fashion, but also the cultural accumulation of China for 5000 years. Through this big show, it is hoped that Hanfu will become a cultural symbol of the new era.
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