Fashion design is a general term, which can be divided into fashion design, structural design and process design according to the different work content and nature. The original intention of design is to "seek a solution and strategy in the process of planning for a specific goal to meet people's needs". Design involves a wide range, including social planning, theoretical model, product design and the formulation of engineering organization plan. Of course, the goal of design embodies the mechanism of human cultural evolution and is an important means to create aesthetics. Fashion design, as its name implies, is an industry that designs fashion styles. The process of clothing design "is to conceive according to the requirements of the design object, draw the renderings and floor plans, and then make them according to the drawings to realize the whole process of design".
Design has both "fact elements" and "value elements". The former explains the state of affairs, while the latter is expressed by theoretical and aesthetic propositions, that is, "good or bad, beautiful or ugly".
Different types of design focus on different types of thinking. For example, in engineering design, we pay more attention to rational analysis, while in product modeling design and industrial design, we pay attention to the whole process and need to use the factors of thinking in images, while in clothing design, we pay more attention to "beauty" and so on.
The task of design is not only to meet individual needs, but also to take into account social, economic, technical, emotional and aesthetic needs. Because there are some contradictions among these numerous requirements, the design task itself contains the coordination and opposition between various requirements. Modern design concepts should also follow the design specifications and consider these numerous "requirements" when updating.
Design is the primary link of material production and cultural creation. It is always mediated by some cultural form. For example, different social cultures use roughly the same organic materials for the design of construction projects, which will lead to different architectural forms; Using similar fashion design ideas, different social norms will also produce completely different design styles.