Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Witch-nuo culture is the original culture of China and the carrier of human primitive spiritual civilization. In line with the current situation of the inheritance and innovation of China's original cultural heritage, Taking the Chinese native culture Witch-nuo (including Witch-nuo mask, Witch-nuo opera music, costume pattern) as the research object, Find out the innovations in its costumes, Learn from other excellent aspects of witchcraft costumes and other art categories, With the traditional Chinese Witch-nuo culture as the background, Innovate and enrich the modern womenswear design; And extract the Witch-nuo elements that can be applied to the modern womenswear design, Looking for its connection with modern womenswear design and modern people's psychology, Try to use the modern fashion design language and concept to integrate it into the contemporary fashion design. This paper mainly studies from three aspects. First of all, the overview of Witch-nuo culture is made to facilitate us to have a basic cognition of the Witch-nuo culture. Secondly, the in-depth study of witchcraft and Witch-nuo culture, which is embodied in the analysis and illustration of nuo masks, costumes and Witch-nuo opera melodies, and the external artistic characteristics of these elements and the internal emotional elements contained in them. Finally, the paper analyzes the innovative techniques of Witch-nuo elements in women's wear design and the innovative trend of current fashion design, extracts the design elements that can be applied to the costume from the nuo masks and music melody, and discusses how to apply these elements to the design of womenswear, and finally complete the graduation design.
Author: Wenjing Sun
Institution: Royal College of Art
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409206361