The application of minimalism in modern urban clothing design:
(1) Clothing silhouette design
Minimalist clothing designers believe that the human body is the most important For a good silhouette, there is no need for additional processing and modification when designing. You only need to pay attention to the natural coordination between the human body and the clothing silhouette, and abandon complex and cumbersome artificial silhouettes by reducing, negating, and purifying them. The silhouette design is mainly natural and comfortable, and most of them are H-shaped, tent-shaped, cylindrical and other shapes that are not very close to the body. Even if the waist is narrowed, it is not deliberately emphasized. Minimalist clothing silhouettes often hide complex and exquisite clothing structures under the simple outline surface.
(2) Clothing style design
The style design of minimalist clothing is mainly based on the basic styles of clothing, including the basic styles of Western-style suits, coats, shirts, skirts, and trousers. Think carefully and make appropriate design changes. Contrary to designs that emphasize decorative details, minimalist designers focus on the exquisite interest and elegant taste of clothing. They use subtraction as a design method to delete too many complicated and irrelevant decorative details, and use the most refined design language to emphasize simplicity. Beauty does not allow even one more button or one more seam. The design emphasizes "appropriateness". This kind of appropriateness is not simply reducing details or decorative elements, but using very sophisticated techniques and clever ideas to achieve a strong visual or spiritual impact without affecting the function of the clothing. This rich "simplicity" requires designers to have strong design generalization, condensation capabilities and extremely high aesthetic qualities.
(3) Clothing fabric selection
Minimalist clothing follows the design principle of "richness in simplicity, elegance in purity". The "minimalist" style of clothing actually strengthens the requirements for clothing fabrics. The texture, composition and psychological feelings of the fabric surface must reflect the quality of the clothing. Therefore, minimalist designers pay great attention to the processing of material texture and the composition of materials. For example, Jil Sanger invented the fabrics that mix wool, velvet and linen. 90% of the fabrics in her works are customized according to the design.
The fabrics commonly used in minimalist clothing include more textured cotton, linen, chiffon and blended fabrics. Winter clothing is mainly made of worsted woolen fabrics with different structures. It should be pointed out that minimalist design is often accompanied by neutral components, so in classic minimalist clothing design, the use of embroidery, lace, ribbons, etc. that represent female colors is completely abandoned.
(4) Colors, patterns and accessories
Subtle and fresh tones are the embodiment of minimalist style, often with black, white and gray as the main colors. In addition, it also includes blue, coffee, red, green colors with lower brightness, as well as white, bleached colors, etc. There are few decorative patterns, and basically no various patterns are used. When color matching, you can use large neutral colors and bold and strong key colors to create an exaggerated contrast to achieve a visual impact and highlight this simple, pure, elegant and fashionable style.
Minimalist clothing advocates keeping everything simple. Clothing does not need to be matched with additional accessories. Even bags, jewelry, hats and headwear are redundant. The matching shoes have a simple shape, elegant colors and no decoration. Jil Sander even advocates the abandonment of any redundant and fancy decoration, so as not to weaken the subject status of the wearer by overshadowing the guest. She even asked the models not to wear accessories at the launch of her works, or to wear their eyebrows lightly, or to look bare-faced.