2018河南工程学院服装学院毕业作品发布会 “和合”

The Final Work Presentation of Henan University of Engineering was convened in the Workshop of Beijing 751D•PARK on May 14th, 2018. 

The theme of this Final Work Presentation is "harmony", which stands for the beauty of harmony without boundary. "Harmony" is the primary value of Chinese culture. The designers break convention through bold attempts in various materials and elements, so as to pursue the collision and integration of numerous elements including nature, society, interpersonal relation, mind and body, as well as civilization. They rely on culture, face up with the market, and pursue universal unification while keeping the difference. 

The graduates pushed forward distinctive interpretations in the subject of harmony. They set free their ideas and minds, laid stress upon hot spots of society and the cultural fields. For instance, "Zero-waste Apparel Design" praises highly the environmental spirit of sustainable development, which is dedicated in not only reducing wastage of fabrics during the process of apparel design and production, but also application of the dumped leftover materials for realizing maximum use ratio of fabrics; the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of CPC triggered the trend of military elements. The apparel modeling originates from combat uniforms. The designers summarized and integrated the design methods of military uniforms, took in the symbolic elements such as pocket, army bag and disruptive patterns, etc., and applied in their diploma designs. With mixed styles, collision of materials, and the utilization of traditional elements and symbols, the graduates indicated that the unusual modern clothing style can also be popular on a large scale. Additionally, the expression techniques of apparel are not limited to one style. The students also dared to try and learn various traditional techniques, such as laser, paper art, knitting, herbal dyeing and embroidery, etc. Overturn in any form turns to be a new revolution. Other than attempts in techniques, some students also focused on ideological expression. They designed sexless attires through interpretation in social phenomenon, so as to reflect modern women's pursuit in freedom and equality as well as their intensified awareness of independence; labels, LOGOs and fragmentary images reflect the anti-labeling concept, which attempts to illustrate the hot spots of current society in apparel language. 

Besides, the diploma designs centered on the study of market also turned out to the highlight of this year's presentation. The students confirmed their longitudinal research directions toward one or several professional branches and continued to conduct further studies based on achievements reached by students of previous sessions, so as to provide their design projects with certain prospect in market application. For example, "The Application of Traditional Herbal Dyeing in Apparel" is the research topic of our college's Fabric Creation Laboratory. The students made innovation in the direction of fabric recreation combined with the college-enterprise cooperative projects at the meantime of applying herbal dyeing technique, so as to search for the marketing prospects for the diploma designs; the "one for all" apparel-design concept is the research content of Xingzhi Fashion Studio, which is aimed at not only achieving multiple modeling effects through innovation in apparel structure, but expressing their own life attitudes through decorative elements. Numerous design concepts and methods can be directly applied in the marketing manufacture of products and bring forth certain social value.