Exaggeration is a common design method, and it is also a design method to turn plain into strange. In clothing design, exaggeration is often used in the overall and local modeling of clothing. Exaggeration not only magnifies the original state and characteristics, but also includes narrowing, thus causing visual reinforcement and weakening. Exaggeration needs a scale, which is determined by the school according to the design purpose.

There are countless types of extreme exaggeration design in Shanghai, and choosing the most suitable state to apply in design is the key to design clothing training.

In addition to modeling, exaggeration can also exaggerate the details of fabrics and decorations, and exaggerate the position, length, thickness, weight, thickness, soft and hard training by means of overlapping, combination, transformation, movement and decomposition. This method is more suitable for fashion shows.

Exaggeration in fashion design in different periods;

So far, there are many ways to design and decorate human clothing. The performance of exaggeration is mainly to highlight the local structural characteristics of clothing by enlarging the proportion of clothing outline, so as to emphasize the wearer's human body shape, social status, aesthetic preferences and other purposes for design and creation.

According to the regional comparison, the system of "taking off the coat" advocated by China since the Han Dynasty is to exaggerate the ratio of cuffs to clothes. The exaggerated modeling design of the crown ornaments on clothing is also a symbol of the status difference between emperors and princes during the feudal system. And this exaggerated hourglass clothing silhouette continued until the beginning of19th century.

In western European countries, the costumes of the Gothic period in the14th century exaggerated the hat top and skirt waist by imitating the modeling characteristics of spire buildings. During the Renaissance, the modeling characteristics of men's and women's clothing evolved into the basic contours of inverted triangle and regular triangle. Among them, the wheel-shaped wrinkled collar was the key exaggerated part of the clothing details and styles at that time.