2024 Liu Yifei at the LV autumn and winter show at Paris Fashion Week, looks retro and playful.
Taking away the styling, the outfield shots are more vivid than the official ones. It's just that many people don't understand this white sox.
Being Liu Yifei's stylist is really a happy and stressful thing, although in the end, Liu Yifei's appearance and popularity with the audience always take the lead.
However, it is not easy to take into account the brand requirements in terms of styling, but also to find a balance between Liu Yifei's classic temperament and LV's hard and cold temperament.
In the venue of the grand ceremony, movie queens from all over the world gathered together, and the stars of the queen circle gathered together to shine.
It is not difficult to find that from the popular designs featured in this year’s big shows to the dresscodes of celebrities, striped elements are undoubtedly the hottest fashion + classic reappearance of the season.
includes Jin Chen’s well-received regular striped outfit on the domestic entertainment red carpet a while ago, which is also from LV’s autumn and winter style.
The rhythmic beauty presented by striped elements combined with pop art is a visual style that has fascinated the fashion industry for a long time.
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Today we will talk about the origin of the stripe element and its unique fashion style.
deconstructs and reorganizes it through practical dimensions such as thickness, density, and color, and fully applies it to our daily wear.
Manshen’s award-winning style is also very common.
In addition to simply slimming and highlighting the beauty of curves, striped elements also play a positive role in assisting style extension.
Its existence in terms of aesthetic charm has far more far-reaching influence than a few simple lines.
Stripe Origin and Fashion Atmosphere
The design inspiration of classic stripe elements comes from France in the 19th century.
At that time, in the port city of Brittany, the crew members wearing blue and white striped sea soul shirts were a unique sight.
coupled with the easy recognition of striped elements, it has become a special symbol for convenient communication and timely rescue.
The 1942 French Navy image
Such practical and rhythmic elements are famous for Breton stripes and have been passed down to this day.
is similar to today’s hospital gowns, focusing on a psychological suggestion of redemption.
Different from the eye-catching and extended sense of horizontal stripes on Haihun shirts, the vertical stripes on hospital gowns have a visual effect of convergence, stability, and calmness.
Including doctors’ blue and white vertical striped outfits, which will also visually soothe the emotions of doctors and patients.
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Such a recognizable element was introduced into the fashion circle by Ms. Coco Chanel in 1917.
Since the beginning of the nautical series, countless celebrities and nobles have become fans of striped aesthetics.
From the "devil's fabric" that was banned in the Middle Ages to the printing elements that attract the fashion industry, stripes have made a huge contribution to style and atmosphere.
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cold blue with white is the main tone of the stripe color atmosphere. It is also a strong visual complement to marine aesthetics , and is the fashion trend this year.
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The hidden secret here is how to avoid wearing a hallucinogenic hospital gown in daily life.
Because hospital gowns are mostly made up of closely arranged vertical blue thin stripes, you can start with these characteristics to crack the inherent impression.
started with the color, replacing green with blue. The large gray-blue color block makes the vertical stripes appear weaker and more delicate.
plus a little brown, it is a classic Hong Kong style retro outfit.
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From the perspective of hierarchy, the overall exposed area of the vertical stripes can be reduced, making it a fresh and bright inner-layer background color, which will also weaken the sense of familiarity of the uniform.
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Starting from the structure, directly changing the spacing and thickness of the stripe arrangement, the style will change even more.
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From this, the practical aesthetic details of stripes are naturally extended: thickness, density, horizontal and vertical (oblique angle) and other characteristics interact with each other. brings different optical illusion aesthetic effects, and directly affects the appearance of different body types. Practical outfit for daily life.
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combined with the multiple transformations of colors jointly present a distinct graphic atmosphere.
element characteristics and practical deconstruction of
striped elements are closely related to practical wear and optical illusion effects. It determines what we pay more attention to: how to look thinner, how to look fatter, and which combinations are more suitable for different people.
Here, you first need to understand "Helmholtz's Square Illusion" .
refers to stripes of the same thickness and spacing in squares of the same size. vertical stripes look wider and flatter, and horizontal stripes look narrower and taller.
Therefore, the previous sentence "horizontal stripes make you fatter, vertical stripes make you slimmer" cannot be roughly summarized. This still requires detailed analysis as the variables increase.
① When the dividing lines between density and thickness
vertical stripes are three or less, the slimming effect of visual focus is obvious. When there are far more than 3 vertical stripes, the denser the spacing, the wider and fatter the appearance.
ab=bc | The spacing remains unchanged
Left → Right: The visual effect gradually becomes rounded and expanded
So even if a supermodel displays dense black and white vertical stripes, it still needs a concave shape to avoid facing the audience directly.
On the contrary, when there are far more than 3 horizontal stripes, the slimming effect will be more obvious on the same person.
At this time, the fewer the equidistant horizontal stripes are divided, the larger and thicker the stripes are, the stronger the sense of segmentation is to the body, and it is easier to appear shorter.
If it is a dress above the knee, thick horizontal stripes will have a more falling and scattered feel than thin horizontal stripes, further making the dress look shorter.
For a skirt of the same length, the denser horizontal pinstripes will also make you look slimmer.
②The spacing and angle
combined with the angle combination of horizontal, vertical and oblique angles, comprehensively come up with the underlying logic of stripes being more practical.
The higher the transverse density, the thinner and more the stripes, the better the visual effect of slimming in, and it is suitable for modifying slender waists.
is also more suitable for breaking the regular visual experience brought by equidistant stripes.
If you apply horizontal and wide stripes to the upper body at will, coupled with deep color matching, it is especially easy to expand and look strong.
Horizontal stripes on the upper body are more suitable for thin stripes.
Either the number is small and the distance is far apart, or the number is large but the color is relatively light and soft, or the skin is exposed high, so that the overall effect will be lighter.
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On the contrary, the thinner and denser the vertical stripes are, the more inflated the visual effect will be, which is suitable for beautifying the crotch curve and painlessly enlarging the crotch and buttocks. The combination of
is very common in to enhance the waist-to-hip ratio .
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Especially the vertical stripes on the lower body trousers make the legs look longer because of the sense of extension.
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In the same way, the v-shaped stripe arrangement has a more convergent feeling of being wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. is suitable for creating a double-door wide-shoulder effect.
is used on the upper body. For a frame with a large, pointed and narrow head, can be used to modify the head-to-body ratio.
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While has an inverted V-shaped, or A-shaped stripe arrangement, has an exploding sense of expansion, which is suitable for skirt styles that emphasize the waist-to-hip ratio of the lower body .
is also a must-have classic element for everyday retro princess style.
Based on all the above stripe characteristics, it can be concluded that has a clearer color contrast, more scattered spacing, and more reasonable thickness distribution, which has a better effect on the body shape.
The left side is more flexible and more beautiful than the right side.
Compared with two-color contrasting outfits with equal distances and equal widths, there is more room for flexible operation and personal characteristics, and the presentation of style charm is also more diverse and profound.
Style extension and aesthetic charm
is derived from the stripe element The clear and rhythmic style is definitely academic.
The academic style here can be old-school uniform style, with uniform and fixed matching, so 's classic blue and white vertical striped shirt is more orderly and beautiful.
"The Boy in Striped Pajamas" 2008
Combined with a vest and vest, it will add a yuppie casual beauty based on the professional sense.
And the classic blue and white horizontal striped T-shirt will have a more Hong Kong style retro feel.
Paired with denim items, whether it is divided up and down, or combined with internal and external layers, they are all neat and cute.
The colorful color matching style extended from this vivid beauty is an interesting literary retro style of with more contemporary characteristics.
At this time, the color collision is more diverse and bold, and the density and thickness of the stripes are also more flexible.
only uses dresses as a carrier, and the overall design and tailoring are very simple and elegant, relying solely on the different textures and shapes of stripes to present the style.
In addition to the retro casual academic style, there is also a classic old-money stripe style that continues to this day - pinstripe - the distinguished banker pinstripe style.
focuses on smooth and delicate good-texture fabrics, adding low-key luxury. Therefore, stripes are very thin, and the colors are not too prominent.
Like the designs in this year’s LV autumn and winter show, there are many items suitable for banker style.
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Fine striped elegance + complex tailoring avant-garde fashion = spanning casual clothes and dresses, and gives birth to a gorgeous simple beauty and a unique subversive elegance.
The stripes at this time can be enhanced with the luster of gold and silver threads.
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Even if stripe elements are only used in accessories, the combination of different textures and colors will bring different visual beauty.
At this time, the scarf can be the ultimate mix and match of unified colors and mixed styles.
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can also be a powerful assistant to highlight the fineness of texture and constitute the harmony of the overall shape.
Including striped hats, which are still classic items with outstanding retro texture and beauty.
This time Liu Yifei used a simple hat to match the dresscode theme for the show.
Instantly reminds people of the innocent little princess in Bai Xiuzhu's period.
extends from the "shape" highlighted by the stripe elements to the "meaning" that focuses on the connotation, and its application is also more extensive and profound.
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Our preference for this aesthetic charm also extends from a simple two-dimensional level to a three-dimensional sense of space: the charm of arrangement is also a continuation of the beauty of virtuality and reality advocated by our ancestors.
Right | The light and shadow structure of the new Chinese style gallery
From fashion beauty to architectural beauty, the aesthetic charm brought by elements shows a closely related inheritance.
Understanding art through clothing is also a daily expression of high-level aesthetic education.
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Life contains beauty everywhere, and the elements that constitute beauty are never far away from us.
Every element of beauty is like a star, no matter how small it is, it always shines firmly and permanently.
is waiting for us to experience and explore, and continue to realize self-improvement in this process of exploration and enjoyment.
