Clothing fabrics will appear in a new pattern with the development of the times. The research, development and design of fabrics also need to adopt new ideas under new conditions and at new levels. The future ideas of new garment fabric product development should include the following aspects.
The combination of technology and art
In the future, any kind of high-grade fabrics not only need to use new raw materials and new processing technology, but also will pay great attention to its artistic expression, especially the use of trendy colors and the combination of fashion elements to create new product styles. For example, if a set of high-grade clothing or high fashion, consumers often pay attention not only to its texture and taste, but also to its color, style and wearing style. For this reason, the design must adopt a three-dimensional way of thinking, taking both technology and art into account.
For general clothing, both functionality and artistry should be taken into account, while special clothing can somewhat stress any of them. For example, sportswear, workwear and vocational clothing can emphasize certain functions, but these garments should also be quite sophisticated in aesthetics, and should also pay attention to technical aesthetics and modeling aesthetics. And artistic clothing and stage clothing often put art in the first place. Knitted garments can use popular color yarns to directly knit and shape the garments, and its design emphasizes more on the combination of technology and art.
The combination of material and spiritual
In the past, the requirements for fabrics were mainly made from the material content related to color and inner quality, and of course the price was also taken into consideration. Modern people have new pursuits and standards for the choice of fabrics. For “the human body packaging”, people not only pay attention to the external beauty, but also pay attention to the inner beauty, overall beauty, personality beauty. It is believed that clothing is not only the outer packaging of the human body, but also the inner expression of the human heart and the display of personality. Therefore, the pursuit of artistic conception for clothing, pay attention to both form and spirit, the integration of mind and material.
In fact, the color, shape, flower, quality and style of the fabric all have artistic conception. For example, some people think that clothing fabrics seem “silent”, but actually they have rhythm, rhyme, charm and poetry. Some people also say that favorite fabrics can reflect a person’s personality to some extent. Some people pursue famous brand effect, some people like to show their status and superiority through clothing, which is a kind of spiritual reflection. Different regions, nations and countries have their own favorite materials, colors and styles in clothing, as well as their own way of dressing. This is the reason for the combination of material and spirit.
The combination of tradition and modernity
Clothing fabrics are closely related to modern technology and contemporary culture, with higher requirements for reflecting the characteristics of the times.The so-called characteristics of the times include two meanings, one is the progress of science and technology and the development of social economy bring new changes to people’s dress concept and life. The second is a fashion produced by the interaction between people and specific social environment. The first meaning is that the socio-economic base will affect the concept of life, which is expressed in the clothing is a style of the times. For example, modern life has made bicycles and cars the daily means of transportation for people, and wearing a robe is obviously not appropriate. The second meaning is that everyone lives in a specific country, and the social development of each country has its own unique national history. In this case, if one goes after the fashion of the place far away from oneself, it will be difficult for the society one lives in to accept it, and this sense of the times will not be alive.
Garment fabric is a practical product in real life, it is closely connected with human life; it cannot be cut off from history, nationality, tradition, and even custom; it cannot be separated from nature and society. Nowadays, the trend of going back to simplicity and nature is enough to prove this point. Many popular colors have this influence, such as claiming to be inspired by Egyptian costumes, the era of Louis XIV, ancient palaces, the divine world of the East (the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven), oriental charm, highland living culture, primitive marks, Dunhuang frescoes, clothing themes from the countryside, quiet nature, tropical jungle, desert grassland, island summer, idyllic, etc.. Therefore, modernization and tradition, nationality, and nature are inseparably linked.
The combination of individuality and commonality
Contemporary clothing fabric emphasizes individuation, which is a kind of development and progress of clothing culture, and a profile reflected by the reflection of clothing fabric and demand. However, it can not ignore its common side, such as the basic ability of clothing fabrics, clothing fabrics needed comfort, beauty, the sense of The Times, etc. (only in the social communication between people and their own life with national, in line with the level of social and economic development of fashion, can be called the sense of The Times, or national sense of The Times). The popular colors and styles of clothing fabrics are also common elements that must be followed. So the important thing is how to make the combination of individuality and commonality, how to pay attention to the commonality of the product, but also play its personality. Only when both of them are available can we have level and characteristic products.
The combination of macro and micro
For garment fabric development, the macro refers to the general background of the times (general trend), environmental protection, ecology and other modern political, economic, cultural and ideological trends; the so-called micro refers to the specific design of garment fabrics, the choice of raw materials, the development of production processes and other factors. At present, many product designers tend to pay attention to the microscopic and ignore the macroscopic. In fact, the macroscopic aspects of the content with direction, guidance, it is the main theme of clothing fabric development, it has a wide range of influence on the development of clothing fabrics, long and profound, it is the main and subordinate relationship with the microscopic aspects of the content.
Take men’s wear as an example. Many young men’s suits have always been based on traditional culture, emphasizing three-dimensional shape, reasonable structure, overall crisp, and requiring legitimacy and standardization. Due to the popularization of leisure consciousness and the renewal of dress concept, clothing fabrics are also developing in the direction of freedom in great strides. According to a survey by Levi Strauss in the United States, the casual trend has driven formal clothing out of business, and Americans are becoming more casual, and many are getting used to it. They are trying to make casual wear look more fun, more dramatic and more stylish at the same time, so the casual wear trend has made many formal clothes less attractive and has given rise to a whole new category of clothing, sometimes called “corporate casual” or “professional casual,” to distinguish it from the casual look at home. This shows that casual wear nowadays has a whole new concept, that is, casual wear is not only worn in leisure time, some casual wear can make the working people in the work without losing their identity, and in the entertainment without showing restraint. All of the above shows that in the development of modern clothing fabrics, there are many issues to seriously consider, such as imitation and innovation, practical technology and the use of high-tech, avant-garde and popular, popular and anti-popular, etc.