STUDENTS' FASHION WEEK

2018 Diploma Project Release of Qingdao University's College of Textiles & Clothing,

"Extension"

The 2018 Diploma Project Release of Qingdao University's College of Textiles & Clothing was convened in the 79 Tank of Beijing 751D•PARK on May 14th, 2018. The subject of this release is "extension". "The clear and bright moon rises in the summer sky. Scarce moonlight transmits through the thick woods". Students not only conducted improvement and innovation on the basis of traditional textile technology and design method, but also integrated traditional culture with fashionable elements. The integration of multiple traditional techniques including printing, dyeing, knitting and embroidery, etc., with new-type fabric and technology realized a multi-dimensional collision with respect to design.

The graduates utilized the special language of apparel design as a mode of expression to deliver the long-standing details of traditional Chinese culture as well as the swanking and forward modern tendency. They presented their learning outcomes refined by their expertise and qualities over the four years in college. Their works conducted extensive explorations respectively in a series of subjects including "virtuality and reality", "deconstruction and construction", "the traditional and the modern", etc. They applied the techniques of design and expression with great sense of art such as deconstructivism and abstractionism, etc., into apparel design. Through extracts, transformation and reorganization of popular elements as well as the deconstruction and reconstruction of previous garment structure and modeling, they achieved the contradiction and unification in form.

The students adopted transformed physical graphics of art to depict social phenomena and characteristics of human nature; they relied on the symbolic patterns and color blending in drama, calligraphy, art and architecture, etc., applied a number of new-type materials including PVC, colored cotton and laser leather, etc., in design of reconstitution. They focused on the demands of the new generation consumer groups after the 90s and 00s in apparel design, and universally expressed their inheritance toward traditional Chinese culture as well as supplement toward the freehand individual development in modern society.