In the early years, the emergence of e-commerce has promoted the rapid development of the clothing industry, and there has been a large number of employment demand for clothing designers. Therefore, domestic universities and training institutions have set up a large number of professional courses of clothing design, focusing on the teaching of skills and clothing technology. However, as this wave of graduates have entered the job market one after another, making up for the vacancy, there have also been some "sequelae": the lack of design thinking training has led to plagiarism, the uneven level of crash course teaching graduates, and the environmental pollution caused by the accumulation of fast updating commodities All kinds of symptoms indicate that the development of the clothing industry has fallen into a bottleneck. At the same time, we can't help thinking: Is the clothing design major, which is used to train the reserve army, also going to light up the red light? Now, the Natural Light Zhengzhou Fashion Design Training will give you a detailed introduction.

No! The bottleneck of development does not mean a hopeless situation. On the contrary, for students who are interested in learning the clothing design industry and are already learning the clothing industry, the industry problem at this time is the opportunity. Talents who can really cope with the future development of clothing design are just what the times need. While worrying about the development of the industry, students should focus on where the real problems of the market are, and how we can carry out targeted learning and improvement. Next, Zhengzhou Fashion Design Training will specifically answer these two questions to help students take the initiative in the future assessment of colleges and markets!

Zhengzhou clothing design training, how to deal with the bottleneck of clothing design?

What's the problem?

　　 The same design style

In recent years, the spread of KOL and the rapid development of e-commerce have accelerated the pace of brand innovation, but also formed a market-oriented fashion design model. In order to catch up with the trend of the season, many brands use the same elements in a large amount, which leads to the uniform clothing in the market.

This design mode also makes the fashion design field in recent years rarely appear new design styles that can withstand the test of time. The commercial market, to a certain extent, failed to provide a good platform and impetus for the development of fashion design.

　　 Too old production mode

At present, the biggest problem of fashion design comes from how to deal with environmental pollution. According to statistics, the carbon emissions caused by the traditional clothing production mode account for more than 8% of the global total, which exceeds the total carbon emissions of all flights and sea transportation

In addition, the acceleration of commodity production and circulation has also resulted in the elimination rate of clothing and the backlog of inventory, while most clothing is difficult to recycle and degrade due to the relationship between fabrics, resulting in a waste of a large number of resources. The sustainable development of the clothing industry is an urgent problem.

　　 Uneven educational level

Although fashion design is a constantly developing and highly diversified international industry, the advantageous resources of fashion education are concentrated in countries such as Britain, America, France and Italy. Other countries are relatively traditional in both manufacturing and fashion design education.

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For example, the clothing design education in China's colleges and universities will focus on women's clothing design, and pay more attention to the manufacturing process rather than the design concept in the curriculum; With the rise of Taobao clothing stores, the work of pattern makers is facing a huge gap, and a large number of quick skill training classes have emerged in the market, with different levels of proficiency. Overall, there is still a big gap between the education level of domestic fashion design and that of international top universities.

How to deal with it?

The natural light Zhengzhou clothing design training teacher said that, considering the current situation, it also warned us that in order to cope with the future development of the clothing industry, we must also make corresponding changes in ideas and actions.

　　 Facing the choice of school and major

Britain, America, Italy and France also have the world's top fashion design colleges based on historical precipitation and rich fashion resources, so whether students are out of love for fashion or considering future employment, these countries are the best choice for us when we choose to study abroad. But also because these four countries have different advantages in the field of studying abroad in fashion design, students should also make a more comprehensive analysis when choosing countries and majors, and find colleges that are more suitable for their own interests and future planning.

Secondly, in terms of choosing majors, Zhengzhou Fashion Design Training also suggests that students should not stick to women's clothing design. In fact, the field of clothing design has a wide range of majors, and overseas universities have also made many specific divisions. Men's clothing design, sportswear design, underwear design, and fabric design are all emerging majors extended by the development of the times, and they also have huge advantages in the future job market, Students can open their minds and be brave to try.

　　 Faced with the selection of works

Zhengzhou clothing design training also mentioned that one of the difficulties facing the development of current clothing design is the stereotyped design style. Therefore, the assessment of future designers in famous fashion design schools will also focus on the students' individual uniqueness and innovation.

Students should not be limited by the current trend or single style when choosing the theme of creation, but should combine their own background to find more sensitive themes, get inspiration from different fields, and choose more abundant themes to enrich our design, which also makes our creation more possible.

For example, students often choose environmental protection and social themes, which are relatively vague and difficult to implement into the clothing works with real output. We can choose an emotional entry point and extract design elements from personal experience to enrich details. This interdisciplinary approach will not only make our works more appealing, but also make them truly personalized.

　　 Specific design method

In fact, there is no final conclusion on the choice of design methods, and students need to make specific analysis according to the requirements of the university and their respective advantages. But in order to meet the new requirements of the future and the university, students must jump out of the traditional fashion design around cutting and decoration, and combine some design methods needed for future development.

For example, the combination of clothing industry and new technology is a natural hot spot. Scientific and technological fabrics, intelligent clothing, dynamic devices and other forms can be considered as the direction of our consideration. Adding some scientific and technological elements to the project can help the collection stand out.

Secondly, we also need to pay attention to the balance between commerciality and artistic sense. Many students will think that the creation of works must be unique and cutting-edge enough to catch the attention of admissions officers.

In fact, in the field of fashion design, art and commerce cannot be separated. When we pay attention to personal expression, we should also pay attention to the landing and market significance of clothing works, so that we can accurately grasp the correct direction in the creation process and make works that have resonance and "value".

Future trends?

After understanding the dilemma of fashion design and the measures we should take, let's look forward to the future:

　　 "Scientific and technological revolution"

Armed with high-tech clothing products has become the future development trend of many fashion brands. The continuous development of technology also indicates that the traditional clothing specialty will face new challenges.

Overseas art schools have long anticipated the arrival of this "scientific and technological revolution" in the fashion industry, and have added future materials to their courses, or promoted the development of new professional fields, such as Saint Martin's biological design, Lunshi's pattern and clothing science and technology, Huangyi's fabric design, and so on.

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The importance that colleges and universities attach to sustainable materials and functional clothing is a warning that we are living in an era dominated by science and technology. The development of all disciplines must move forward for the future. The integration of high-tech application into clothing design and production is bound to become a new trend.

　　 sustainable development

All walks of life are paying attention to the research of environmental protection and sustainable development. As one of the culprits of environmental pollution, the fashion industry is bound to become the mainstream in the development of the clothing industry. In recent years, fashion brands and designers have begun to apply the concept of "sustainable fashion", research on environment-friendly fabrics, protection of employees, etc. to all aspects of the commercial market

The rise of "carbon neutral" action in the fashion industry

At the same time, overseas art schools are also promoting new research directions such as the combination of environmental protection materials and fashion, and the combination of technology and fashion. for example London University of the Arts UAL opened the Centre for Sustainable Fashion/Fashion Sustainable Development Research Center as early as 2008. It has conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation in three key cross fields - research, education and commercial markets, and has made many substantive contributions to sustainable design in the fashion field.

　　 Break through boundaries

Based on the above two changes, clothing is no longer a pure function of "decoration" and "wearing". It is also full of more possibilities in the future. The name of clothing designer will also extend in different directions.

The integration of disciplines starts from the blurring of the boundaries of works. Students can also integrate the advantages and design directions of different majors to discuss the future of clothing in depth when creating: for example, consider the function of clothing from the perspective of target users in combination with product design, consider the development of materials and the manufacturing of processes from the perspective of accessories, etc

The training teacher of Zhengzhou Fashion Design told everyone that although the article has been answered many times, it should be emphasized at the end that fashion design is not a red card profession, but now it is an inevitable reform process, and what is really eliminated is the unchangeable design thinking and harmful development of production methods. If you want to become a new type of talent to promote industrial development, you must have a solid foundation and innovative thinking that can cope with changes, try to grasp the trend of the times, and let your talents and potential be seen by colleges and admissions officers, and get that ticket to change the future!

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