From ancient times, the Silk Road culture has always been the most creative and vivid prototype and theme in design works. In design process, the author tried to obtain inspirations from the long stretches of Silk Road. This paper selected Silk Road Flying Apsaras of Dunhuang frescoes as a design element, promoting the harmonious uniform of human and history culture, since the theory that man is an integral part of nature is regarded as essence of traditional Chinese philosophy, but also the eternal theme of costume design in the future.
This series of graduation design work took “Ling Yu” as the theme, with the Flying Apsaras in Dunhuang frescoes as a source of inspiration to explore the performance of digital printing technology in the series of clothing design works. Based on the documents and references of Flying Apsaras in Dunhuang frescoes, and understanding of the characteristics of its colors, it created a representative image of Flying Apsaras pattern. Secondly it combined the Flying Apsaras with digital printing technology and traditional tailoring, perfectly integrated the history culture and traditional aesthetics, with designed makeup, finally created a series of overall design style, to meet the modern aesthetic requirements and bring more harmonious overall feeling.
The history and culture of Dunhuang is rich in content, with the social development and progress, some of the cultural phenomenon disappeared, some mutated, others continued to be merited and developed. Exploring the history and culture of Dunhuang is a major event and of great significance for promoting the Chinese history culture and civilization. This graduation work returns to the historical series and brings new meaning and interpretation of historical and cultural feeling when classical flying frescoes again used as costume design element, hoping to bring people food for thought and appeal them to take history cultural heritage seriously.