From the Revolution of 1911 to the 1920s: Uniform-style school uniforms appeared for the first time.

Chinese school uniforms are the epitome of culture, education, history and even politics. The change of color style is not only tight with the tide of time, but also conforms to inertia and unity.

In 1916, Lin Huiyin (first from right) took a photo with his cousins. They were wearing school uniforms from Beijing Peihua Girls’ Middle School. School uniforms were a symbol of social progress at the time, especially the emergence of female school uniforms.

In the 1960s and 1970s: the word “school uniform” disappeared from our country. For the students of this period, the grass-green old military uniform is their main color.

In the 1980s, the real school uniform appeared. A lot of “military elements” were referenced in the design of school uniforms. White shirts, sky blue pants and suspenders skirts were created that imitated navy uniforms.

In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, sports school uniforms were unified.

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Reflection:

From this case study, I was thinking about changing school uniform styles every 10 years in Chinese history, which is in line with the times and current aesthetics. However, the school uniform design for sportswear has not been changed for more than 20 years from 90 to the present, which means A very important stagnation. Why is the sportswear not updated? What are the advantages and disadvantages of sports school uniforms?

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Question:

How fashion helps Chinese high school students to better build their personal character？

（How does fashion help Chinese high school students to better build their personal character and personality under the premise of wearing uniform school uniforms?）

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The professional area I want to work in is fashion design, psychology, youth subculture.

A field of interest uniform and collectivism, fashion and identity (self-image), adolescent health.

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What kind of change is both possible and desirable? 

Chinese high school students are at a very critical stage. They are not only faced with the pressure of entering school but also their future life choices. At the same time, it is also a key node to establish a personal character. This change hopes to help high school students increase their aesthetic foundation, think about the importance of themselves as independent individuals, express themselves more bravely, increase creativity, and dare to break consistency.

Primary schools, junior high schools, and high schools in mainland China basically use sportswear as school uniforms. The colors are usually blue, black and red, with a small part of white or yellow. The price is cheap, the style is single, and the spring and autumn seasons are basically the same for men and women (asexuality). Usually, one set is common for spring, autumn, and winter, and another set for summer. Only a few schools distinguish between spring, autumn clothes, and winter clothes.

There are also many major shortcomings of school uniforms, such as not being conducive to the cultivation of student’s personalities and innovative spirit, poor quality of school uniforms, easy to fade or mold, the size is not suitable for everyone, and it is inconvenient to reorder, etc.

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Service ecosystem design for improving the service sustainability&flourishing in the social ecology:

Congregation: person, school ( high school student, 16-18 years old )

Micro-system: self-acceptance, personal growth, self-care, integrity, influence

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Stakeholder :

People and organizations who are involved with the area, including students, parents, school teachers, education bureau, fashion designers, fabric suppliers, sewing factories, psychologists, educationalists.

Students are the most important individuals in the whole process. Students have the greatest right to choose in this project. The independent thinking of students is what I want to see most in this project. Most students want to change school uniforms.

Parents, teachers, schools, and the Education Bureau should consider the functional personality, appropriateness, and mental outlook of the clothes. In this regard, the school is very entangled, and it is necessary to satisfy the balance of all parties. The school and the Education Bureau can change school uniforms uniformly. The school has more rights to stipulate specific dressing rules to determine whether the clothing in this project can pass.

Fashion designers can help students improve their aesthetics and increase the practicality and comfort of clothes. Designers are very willing to see the overall aesthetic improvement of Chinese young people.

Fabric suppliers can guarantee fabrics with better comfort, sweat absorption, abrasion, and price advantages.

Manufacturing factories can determine the cost of clothes, and factories are more willing to cooperate without affecting profitability.

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Reflection:

After changing the topic several times, my general direction has not changed, but it is becoming clearer and more detailed. The original questions are very vague and abstract, and I don’t always know where to start. Now that I have a more specific audience and direction, I feel that many of the big visions that I have imposed on myself have been reduced and the burden has been reduced. When I stopped, I was overthinking and didn’t know how to continue research, and finally took this step. I am also deeply aware that I need to start this project earlier and have a clearer schedule.

Most of the time fashion means suffering and pain, But how can I change this?

Box of uncertainty

Obsolescence five sense:

I read this book last year, and this is my first formal chance learn about product design. As a fashion design student I always focus on outcome like silhouette, fabric and collection. I think I did not consider too much design about humanise, function, market and global issue, in other hand fashion some times make people hurt. So I wish I can start a new uncertain area about design, not just fashion.

In this book, second exhibition is about awakening the senses. Human boring with five senses, touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, but with human intervention few of senses was change and not important. 

Shoes designed to protect foot not to be hurt, but cut off the link with the ground, in ancient times they use to investigate all small information form soil. 

Nowadays people wear a big fat shirt, loose fit pants try to hide there overweight body, capitalism controls their taste with sugar, oil, and salt, in the same situation at girdling and three-inch lotuses, customs shows the position and era smell.

Q: Why some human obsolete five sense? 

Q: How do sensory work together? 

Q: How can exciting people to touch and connect with?

Q: What is the new outfit at the next epoch?

Sensorial Trail: Smell

It’s often been said that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory. 

This investigation of a collective scent belonging to a population segment is unlocked through the heat emitted when one touches the wall surfaces. And this exhibition remains me to the canned air product, from Japan at first, carry a can of fresh air was a big hit.

Nowadays people around pressure and anxious, urban life made people. Seams we always miss a special smell maybe happened long time ago, for me is rice fragrance through long black stairs full of sundries but suddenly flower appear.

Q: What’s going on in the air?

Q: Why sense can link to memory?

Q: Why people like different air? like fragrance, like odour…

Q: Why people pay for air?

Q: How can smell leave clothes forever? 

Synesthesia: A Multimodal Combination of Senses

They are almost certainly in the brain Cinnamon is a little like tv static. Acidic foods, like vinegar, have a high-pitched tone, sage/cumin are almost like a deep oboe sound. each ‘scratch’ was yelling at the same time. Lambent-colored fragrances of my mother’s perfumes or the musical sounds that showed themselves as moving, morphing, colored shapes that appeared at times like ribbons of color which could turn back on themselves before vanishing when the record stopped playing.

Synesthesia runs in families, so there may also be a hereditary component. From an evolutionary perspective, there is no reason for it not to persist in the population since it does no harm. Teachers and others should be aware of the condition, however, so they don’t dismiss synesthetes’ descriptions of the world. And some researchers even speculate that the conditions which lead to synesthesia may be a window into how abstract thought developed from disparate senses.

Q: how the brain and sensory system work?

Q: Why do these senses work together Rafferty?

Resignation syndrome: 

Unconsciousness

For nearly two decades Sweden has been battling a mysterious illness. Called Resignation Syndrome, it affects only the children of asylum-seekers, who withdraw completely, ceasing to walk or talk, or open their eyes. Eventually they recover

The recovery of this children is dependent on rebuilding hope. And it seems that parents are the person to transporting this hope. So it must be some kind of communication. The tone, the touch the vibe in the room. Make children can feel their parents are more hopeful. It seams link to though, they autosuggestion themselves need to alive, but finally hope disappear, they choose to sleep forever.

I also read some patients, they describe when they sleep for one or two years, they feel like lying in a glass box, if they move slightly it will be broken imminently, water will drown out there. I feel they sleep but still open their sense for example they can hear patient sounds and feel the vibe.

Sensory System
 Bits per second
   eyes
 10,000,000
   skin
 1,000,000
   ears
 100,000
   smell
 100,000
   taste
 1,000

From last session tutor suggest me to looking at five sense relation to fashion. Before I keep research at five sense, psychologic disease and exhibition, more far away from my fashion design career. 

This week I focused on the relationship between body, touch and clothes. Skin is an important boundary between oneself and others. The body is actually imagined by humans, and it is called the “imaginary appearance” by Kiyokazu. Among them he introduced bandaging psychotherapy in the book. When obtaining one-sided information about one’s own body and failing to realize that “this is one’s own body”, the body is often involved in clinical mental illness. The patient wraps a wet wipe and massages it to restore the “likeness” of the whole body. Can not find more information about this yet, But I was deeply attracted by this method, using a wet medium to awaken the senses, it was amazing. I can do some exploration, maybe wrap my body with a mask? Or clothing can produce water on its own, and it is also necessary to investigate heating and thermal clothes. The same tattoo is also a strange sensory experience, a wonderful coat, which is called the clothing of the soul in the book. Tattoos reach the inside of existence through the depiction on the outside of the body. It seems that “knocking on the door of the skin” makes people listen to the sound from the inside. Why tattoos can achieve such good results? Is it because it changes part of the skin’s senses?

I researched the part that I am very interested in is Weighted blanket for people with autism or sensory disorders. A 2015 study on adults receiving inpatient mental health treatment revealed a 60% reduction in anxiety when using a 30-pound weighted blanket. Sensory integration theory posits that deep pressure input provides a calming effect to the nervous system. Deep pressure provides the body with a firm tactile input, which is organizing and calming, versus a light touch, which is typically alerting and stimulating. Think of the difference between a big, squeezy hug and someone tickling you with a feather.

About the stakeholders. Customers: People who suffer from stress, anxiety, depression, insecurity, or mild mental illness in modern times. And aim to construct a small temporary shelter.

Bibliography:

Hara,K. (2010) Designing design. Guangxi normal university press.

Eccleston, C. (2016) Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation. Oxford University Press

Kiyokazu, W.(2015) Weird Body: What is fashion. Chongqing normal university press.

Experiment：The world needs hot coffee

In the fall of 2006, some volunteers came to the building of the Department of Psychology at Yale University to complete an experiment on perception and consumption. They took the elevator to the laboratory upstairs with the experimenter. At this time, the experimenter would give them a description of a person, such as smart, thrifty, decisive, and many other characteristics, and then let them fill in one. A questionnaire to allow them to score the person just described in ten aspects. There are many aspects related to the degree of enthusiasm. After that, they must complete a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of a car. At this time the experiment is considered to be over.

As they took the elevator from downstairs to upstairs, the experimenter asked these volunteers to help them get a cup of coffee. There are two types of coffee, iced and hot. The result is that the degree of hot or cold coffee actually affects these people’s judgments on the characters in the latter questionnaire. Those who get hot coffee are more inclined to think that the person in the questionnaire is enthusiastic than those who get iced coffee. Although they don’t even know who this person is. They also don’t know this person at all.

Lawrence E.williams and Professor John A. Bargh are the leaders of this series of experimental studies. They found that people holding a cup of hot coffee are more likely to gain trust with strangers. The interesting thing is that hot coffee has a magical positive effect. At the same time, they also found that cold coffee would have the opposite effect.

Lobel, T.(2018) Sensation: The new science of physical intelligence. CITIC Press Corporation.

Krishna, A.(2013) Customer sense. Palgrave Macmillan.

HugMe: An Interpersonal Haptic Communication System

The motivation and design of asynchronous haptic teleconferencing system with touch interaction to convey affection and nurture. We present a preliminary prototype for an interpersonal haptic communication system called HugMe. Examples of potential applications for HugMe include the domains of physical and/or emotional therapy, understaffed hospitals, remote children caring, and distant lovers’ communication.

As an application scenario, assume a child is crying while his parent is away. What would a child need to stop crying other than a hug and a kiss from his/her parent? As shown in Figure 1, the child is wearing a haptic suit (haptic jacket) that is capable of simulating nurture touching. The parent, on the other side of the network, uses a haptic device to communicate his feelings with his child. A 2.5D camera is used to capture the image and depth information of the child and send it to the parent. The parent can touch the child captured with a 2.5D camera, the touch information is calculated and sent to the child, and the child feels the touch via the haptic jacket. Whenever a collision is detected, a notification is sent from the parent host to the child host in order to activate the appropriate actuators embedded in the haptic jacket. Meanwhile, the force feedback of the child’s body is displayed to the parent using the haptic device. 

Question changing

Recently, I have set my sights on the traditional Chinese style fashion market, because I am looking for an internship recently, considering my future working life, I am determined to challenge this theme, and it also includes what I have been paying attention to and want to change. Chinese wear On this matter of clothing style. Although the theme has been changed, the previous research on the five senses is still very useful to me. In the following themes, I will still pay attention to the wonderful sensory changes that each sense organ brings to the human body.

What: How can fashion design help the young generation (18 to 30 years old) have the Chinese cultural background fashion in China?

On May 1, tens of thousands of tourists waited for the musical fountain performance around the railing at the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. As you can see from the video, people are wearing t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers in black and white nothing different or special. According to my daily observations, the video is indeed very real. When I wear clothes that are different from everyone’s, I always seem out of place, and sometimes even attract criticism.

Hanfu was first banned by Manchurian Qing dynasty rulers looking to solidify their power over a larger ethnic group.

But as China shifted its focus to the economy in the eighties, clothing began to gain popularity in mainstream culture.

Compared to their parents who lived through the cultural revolution and were based to renounce these ideas, a younger generation has been encouraged to connect with traditional culture.

”a new age urban subculture similar to cosplay and Japanese lolita dresses” or ”a Chinese version of Afrofuturism.”

”heritage is a very big movement now in china; they want to know what’s behind this artisanship” ” knowledge capital” people are going back to explore their roots.

for the movement there isn’t one universal Hanfu style about everyone can agree on, and there may never be one. Each dynasty had its distinctive styles.

The best-selling style from Chong hui Hantang this year has been a song-style garment, while for fall, an opulent Ming-style coat and pleated skirt are in vogue.

A big misconception around Hanfu is that some believe wearing it equates to giving up all modern amenities.

There is still a long way to go for Hanfu to be fully accepted by mainstream society in China.

There is always the misunderstanding that the public thinking wearing Hanfu is equal to wearing historical costumes, or cosplay.

UNIQLO’s Chinese stores surpassed Japan for the first time, adding 7 stores per month/While fast fashion brands are busy closing stores and luxury goods stores busy layoffs, UNIQLO is going against the current and breaking into a world in China. Recently, media reported that the number of Uniqlo stores in China surpassed Japan for the first time. At the end of August this year, the number of Uniqlo stores in China reached 767, while the number of direct-operated stores in Japan was 764.

 What-Why-How-What if proposal

 What: How can fashion design help the young generation (18 to 30 years old) have the 

 Chinese cultural background fashion in China? 

 Why: When I stand underground they’re always the same t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers as far as the eye can reach, we lost Chinese cultural background fashion for a long time. Although there are a small number of young people who regard wearing traditional Chinese clothes as a hobby, it is difficult to wear their daily life. Many Chinese style brands have not had much influence, have not integrated traditional clothing into daily life, and have no right to speak in the Chinese fashion industry. The most famous legend of Gaia held a fashion show in China’s biggest festival tv show, but because of inappropriate cultural misappropriation, it has aroused criticism from everyone online, which shows that it is very difficult to improve traditional Chinese costumes. I am determined to use my skill as a fashion designer to change the Chinese fashion market, create a track of new Chinese cultural background fashion brand. Give the Chinese young generation more confidence in fashion. 

 How: Through questionnaires and interviews, we can understand why Chinese young people wear traditional clothing less frequently. Interviewed Chinese designer buyer’s store to understand the market’s view of Chinese style design from the perspective of professional buyers. Testing the customer market’s willingness to accept the new Chinese style and suggestions. I will use Chinese traditional garments and fashion design to create an intervention. Create a capsule series, show it and invite passersby to try it on and record their feelings. I also plan to a field trip at the Yunnan area to ethnic minorities who are still wearing traditional costumes and take photos and videos as first-hand research. Especially local residents still wear them daily. At the same time learn about traditional embroidery, tie-dyeing techniques. 

 What if: This project will be challenging and competitive. It fills a vacancy in the Chinese market. At the end of the semester, it hopes to achieve a relatively high degree of completion and market acceptance. It can be sold online as a capsule series. If I did not achieve the desired goal, I also gained precious experience in the Chinese fashion market and a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional culture and the history of Chinese clothing. These are things that I have always wanted to learn but never had the opportunity to. 

CASE STUDY: Yoji Yamamoto interview

Participating in the China Fashion Forum this time is a precious opportunity. I have a lot to say. I think there is a common topic all over the world, that is, whether it is young designers in Japan, China, Asia, or even the whole world, and students who aspire to become masters of fashion design, they are very painful. Why is it so painful? They don’t think they can see their future. What does this mean? To be realistic, a young man wants to create a fashion brand on his own. First of all, he has no sales outlets. Take Japan as an example. Major Japanese department stores will not place the clothes designed by these young people, and even if they are placed, customers are reluctant to buy the clothes designed by these young people. This is a very distressing problem for young people nowadays. How to do that? They discuss with each other and think of ways, for example, 10 people form a group, or form a group, go to Paris, go to Milan, go to an exhibition, and do it in this group way.

A Chinese reporter asked me just now, why is it difficult for young Chinese designers to enter overseas? I think the manufacturing field and the sales field should be united. After the two parties reach an agreement, they can make good products and sell them well, so that our fashion industry can achieve a balance. Young people and young designers in various countries first need such a platform to create some conditions for them, so that they have some spare capacity to give full play to their imagination to create works, produce works, and then develop. This is my experience over the past 20 years.

China is a big country. Beijing has China Fashion Forum, China International Fashion Week, Shanghai has Shanghai Fashion Week, and other clothing events. In my opinion, China is not an era of domestic competition. China should unite and concentrate on creating a world-renowned fashion festival so that buyers from all over the world will come. China’s clothing industry has such a powerful force, it will definitely make this fashion week a very good one, such a festival that attracts global attention. No matter where it is. As long as it can be an event that can affect the world. How to invite guests from all over the world to attend? If someone needs to come and support me, for example, people like me need to come over and do support, I am willing to be the panda that everyone comes to watch, as long as everyone is willing, I am willing to come over to help. Why should I say this? Because I grew up in a defeated country after World War II. My mother was a widow, and my father died in the war. When I went to Paris at that time, no one knew my name, no one called my name, just called me “Japanese”, “Japan” People” are doing such things. They always write like this when they write articles, no one writes my name. At the end, they used a definite word, which is “this Japanese”, and at the end, they used “that Japanese”. More than 30 years have passed. No one called me by name. I just used the word “Japanese” to refer to me. Only here can I reveal my feelings to you. The entanglement in my heart has never passed. So in this sense, we are all members of Asia. I am willing to join hands with friends in China to fight together. Let’s go to Europe and the United States together. Don’t lose to them, and run our own truly successful fashion week.

I am a Japanese designer. My main opponent is LV. They mainly make valuable bags, so fewer and fewer fashion designers participate in the clothing week they organize. Even at Paris Fashion Week, no one said I don’t want to lose to this person, don’t lose to that person, we have to do better design. Ten years ago, there were more than 10 designers in Belgium and two very famous world-class masters. They became a faction and had a great influence on Paris Fashion Week. There used to be such a glorious period, but I don’t know why, now this faction, there is only Versace. Therefore, for me, Fashion Week is no longer a venue for the Olympics, not a place worthy of my whole-hearted fight. I am the only one who is still clenching my teeth. I am in an empty arena with no competitors, and I feel very empty in my heart! Mixed feelings. However, I’m still designing clothes. I have to tell myself every time that I’m going to make the highest level of clothes that I have not made so far. So I will hold four conferences every year, and the schedule is arranged every day. Very nervous. The reporter asked me, Yoji Yamamoto, among the many costume designs you have done in the past, what do you like the most? My answer must be that the next time is what I really like the most, so I will never look back at the past, I will always face my future. In other words, what I have to do is to constantly deny myself, keep moving forward, moving forward, moving forward, and pursuing the next new thing!

So if you investigate carefully, you will find that Givenchy and others, all the things they do are what I want to do, and what I have done is the same as mine. They are always pursuing the greatest potential of clothing. They have always Thinking, has been going on, especially Chanel, she has been trying new designs.

I think that if my life comes to an end one day, I would like to be like Chanel, always make new clothes, make new designs, keep devoting my life to this, and keep inspiring me. Inspiration brings new touch and new excitement to people who come to see it. This is the goal I will always stick to until the day I fall! So let me summarize, I came here specially today, what I want to suggest to you is that between Japan and China, we will join hands and work together, okay? Our designers and our garment manufacturers work together! What I want to say is not that we spend five years and then take action. I am already old. I don’t say how old I am. Although I look young, I am already tired. I need to do it right away. It will be done next year. So how can we do it? I want to discuss with Mr. Wang Jun of the China Fashion Forum on how to actually implement this matter, and discuss with everyone present, how can this matter be promoted together, we need to let people know that there are new trends in China It has come out, and a new trend has emerged. I want to show our new trend to people all over the world. This is what I want to tell you the most here today.

Why China has always

No world-class clothing brand?

This is the theme of a domestic talk show. The host asked the guest Yohji Yamamoto: How would you rate Chinese clothing? Yoji Yamamoto touched his nose and replied: Do you want to say this on TV too?

Then, the host asked Yamamoto Yoji whether he considered the essence of Japanese traditional culture when he made his first appearance at Paris Fashion Week.

Yamamoto Yohji’s answer can be said to be beyond the expectations of many people. He said: When I went to the exhibition, I excluded all Japanese-style things. If you want to use a kimono for a fashion show, you will feel that you have made a souvenir, and you will be very embarrassed.

“Clothing must be Chinese style”, this is the obsession of many designers. However, the master’s answer is: I feel very embarrassed.

In fact, it is not just clothing, we want to force Amway’s own culture in every industry. But why do people have to accept the “essence” that we think?

I have been doing fashion for a long time. Regarding fashion and fashion, China used to be a producer, but now it is also an exporter. China is also a big market, and so is the whole world. I think that China has at least three powers, one is production power, and the other is sales power. So what is not enough? What is still lacking? In fact, as long as one or two people can stand out, that’s it. We push him to the world stage, don’t drag them back, we must push them forward. Maybe I was a bit rude, but in fact, what I said today was very sincere. I was doing a show in Paris and there were many buyers. I asked them, if I make it “Made in China”, can you buy it? purchase? The buyer said, don’t buy. Why is this? This is my last voice to everyone. The so-called clothing is the last handicraft industry. We must use our hands and the tips of our fingers to weave culture. If our finger tips are not cultured, the garments that come out will not be able to exude this charm. So I hope everyone can try their best to experience some of other countries, especially the hand-made by artisans. Clothing can be said to be the last handcraft industry, that is to say, the people who sew, their culture, this industry, and human fingers are culture!

 Why China has always No world-class clothing brand? This is the theme of a domestic talk show. The host asked the guest Yohji Yamamoto: How would you rate Chinese clothing? Yoji Yamamoto touched his nose and replied: Do you want to say this on TV too? Then, the host asked Yamamoto Yoji whether he considered the essence of Japanese traditional culture when he made his first appearance at Paris Fashion Week. Yamamoto Yohji’s answer can be said to be beyond the expectations of many people. He said: When I went to the exhibition, I excluded all Japanese-style things. If you want to use a kimono for a fashion show, you will feel that you have made a souvenir, and you will be very embarrassed. “Clothing must be Chinese style”, this is the obsession of many designers. However, the master’s answer is: I feel very embarrassed. In fact, it is not just clothing, we want to force Amway’s own culture in every industry. But why do people have to accept the “essence” that we think? I have been doing fashion for a long time. Regarding fashion and fashion, China used to be a producer, but now it is also an exporter. China is also a big market, and so is the whole world. I think that China has at least three powers, one is production power, and the other is sales power. So what is not enough? What is still lacking? In fact, as long as one or two people can stand out, that’s it. We push him to the world stage, don’t drag them back, we must push them forward. Maybe I was a bit rude, but in fact, what I said today was very sincere. I was doing a show in Paris and there were many buyers. I asked them, if I make it “Made in China”, can you buy it? purchase? The buyer said, don’t buy. Why is this? This is my last voice to everyone. The so-called clothing is the last handicraft industry. We must use our hands and the tips of our fingers to weave culture. If our finger tips are not cultured, the garments that come out will not be able to exude this charm. So I hope everyone can try their best to experience some of other countries, especially the hand-made by artisans. Clothing can be said to be the last handcraft industry, that is to say, the people who sew, their culture, this industry, and human fingers are culture! 

As one of my favorite designers, this interview gave me more ideas about the problem I want to study. The first point is that China and even Asia need a big fashion week as a stage for display. How to let the world know that the Chinese trend has come out, Shanghai Fashion Week is currently developing rapidly, but the scale is not large enough. The second point is that young designers need a platform and a good sales channel. The third point is that Chinese manufacturing is not loved by buyers. As the final handicraft industry, clothing needs to focus on the spirit of craftsmanship and make products more in-depth. The fourth point is that the use of national culture, the master also feels very afraid that it will be like a souvenir, which is difficult for outsiders to accept. 

Culture Appropriation

Cultural Appropriation (English: Cultural Appropriation) or Cultural Misappropriation (Cultural Misappropriation) is a vocabulary that some people may use in the pursuit of social justice. Its definition is not clear, but generally, it refers to a stronger individual or Cultural groups do not understand, misunderstand, maliciously, or harmfully interpret weak cultures when dealing with relatively disadvantaged individuals or cultural groups; or make fun of, discriminate, or disrespect the disadvantaged culture, or directly adopt, occupy, exploit, plagiarize or copy (claim to possess ) The phenomenon of disadvantaged culture. 

Some opponents are mainly concerned about the appropriator or changing the cultural meaning in the process of appropriation. For example, cheongsam originally has the meaning of women’s liberation, and it will lose this meaning when it is worn by white people. Another example is the war crown. Originally it has a special religious significance, but it is also a kind of disrespect for the embezzled person to wear it as a mere accessory. The misappropriator may also misrepresent the culture, such as mixing and matching the clothes of different nationalities or failing to test the correct way of dressing. The culture of the disadvantaged has changed due to misappropriation, and they often do not have enough voice to correct these changes.

Contemporary culture is the life tool of certain ethnic groups. For example, foreign restaurants opened by rap immigrants of black Americans are misappropriated by strong cultures, which will cause poppers to lose certain types.

Some people think that cultural appropriation is a kind of Orientalism, and emphasizes the differences of different cultures rather than trying to learn from the other part.

“Met Gala itself is confirming these errors, or recreating images based on problematic racial stereotypes, such as dragon girls or Chinese dolls,” Flora, editor-in-chief of “Jing Daily” (Liz Flora) went on to say in an interview with Fashionista: “If a designer finds inspiration from these stereotypes, it will not only look insensitive to race but also super boring.”

The most famous HEAVEN GAIA held a fashion show in China’s biggest festival tv show, but because of inappropriate cultural misappropriation, it has aroused criticism from everyone online. Boarded the day’s Weibo (China’s Twitter) hot search list.

HEAVEN GAIA’s actions are more like consuming Chinese elements, which just deviate from the core of Chinese culture. 

Contemporary Chinese independent designers already have a better platform, and in recent years, Chinese independent designer fashion buyer shops have flourished, providing independent designers with a better platform. Designers have different styles, but it is difficult to see the shadow of traditional Chinese clothing culture in them.