Dior refused to admit plagiarism, causing public outrage. Insiders of the designer were exposed. Netizens: Reject cultural plagiarism. What do you think?

The incident of Dior plagiarizing the horse-faced skirt, a traditional Chinese dress, has been a hot topic. However, the brand has never responded positively. It only quietly removed the product from the domestic market and sold it normally in overseas markets. This immediately angered netizens, and Chinese students studying abroad also took action.

Chinese students held a protest in front of the Dior brand store in Paris, demanding that Dior respect Chinese traditional culture and stop cultural theft and appropriation. This event is a legal assembly officially applied by international students and approved by local law enforcement authorities. The organizers of this event said that they were hastily preparing for the live broadcast event this time. Due to insufficient preparation, they could not complete the live broadcast, and some people came to the scene to cause trouble at the beginning of the event. However, it was completed smoothly. Thank you for the live broadcast. Everyone who signs signs, shouts slogans, hands out flyers, and takes photos.

Judging from the on-site pictures, there were about thirty or forty people participating in the event, mostly women. They stood in front of the main entrance of the Dior brand logo, wearing traditional Hanfu horse-faced skirts, holding Holding up "STOP APPR OPRIA TION CULTU RELLE" and other boycott banners, he gave Dior a loud slap in the face. Moreover, foreigners also participated in the event to support the Chinese people in protecting Hanfu culture.

The controversy caused by Dior this time is not only the conflict of styles, but also the slogan. The style of this skirt is completely copied from the horse-faced skirt, but the official claim is that it is an "iconic DIOR silhouette" and a completely new design, which is complete nonsense. The horse-faced skirt is a traditional Chinese skirt. It is generally two-piece, with smooth front and back and pleated left and right. It is a rare and typical shape. Because the face skirt is also known as the "horse-faced pleated skirt", Dior cannot just Replacing a waist buckle distorts the cultural attributes.

Moreover, this is not the first time that a horse-faced skirt has been stolen. Previously, Korean Internet celebrity Song Zhiya mixed Hanbok and Hanbok. The upper body was wearing common Korean clothing, and the lower body skirt was a gold-woven horse skirt that originated from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. But he said that the whole outfit was made of Korean clothes and it was very easy to steal. In addition, this Dior product is also designed by a Korean designer, which is fascinating. In the field of design, due to cultural heritage, it is difficult to solve the problem of plagiarism and misappropriation by Dior designers from copyright, so the public's demands are not excessive. They just ask Dior to admit that it was inspired by the Chinese Hanfu horse-faced skirt, and not to misappropriate it. In this way, the time difference was used to tamper with historical memory and erase the official origin of the horse-faced skirt.

Seeing this wave of actions by international students, many domestic netizens praised them and praised them for supporting traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, negative examples also emerged. In the face of Dior's appropriation of Hanfu culture, all the brand's relevant co-stars have become invisible and have not spoken out, which has also aroused the disgust of netizens. Some netizens disapprove of celebrities speaking out through contract termination, believing that endorsements and speaking out are two different things. After all, like the previous trend of celebrities canceling their contracts, the brand will change the time to officially announce another celebrity endorsement, or ask Korean stars to endorse it, which is disgusting and stupid. Horse-face skirt, also known as "horse-face pleated skirt", is a type of Hanfu. Its design has four skirt doors at the front and back, overlapping in pairs, pleated on the sides, and a smooth surface formed by overlapping skirt doors in the middle. It is commonly known as "Horse face". This Dior skirt is also designed with front and rear skirt doors. Coupled with the changes in slits, it can be regarded as an improved version of the horse skirt. The horse-faced skirt is the most typical dress style for Han women during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in my country. "History of the Ming Palace" records: "The drag and skirt are continuous at the back, with swings on the sides, two sections at the front, and horse-face pleats underneath, rising to both sides." The style of the horse-face skirt is not static. From the Ming Dynasty, It has gone through a series of changes from fresh and elegant to the gorgeousness and wealth of the Qing Dynasty, and then to the beauty and simplicity of the Republic of China, but its "horse face" structure has always been deeply rooted. In recent years, as Hanfu has become increasingly popular among young people, horse-faced skirts have also been a popular style.

It can be seen that whether it is recorded in historical documents or in real life, it is an indisputable fact that horse-faced skirts are still popular as part of my country's traditional costumes. Dior's so-called "new design" is completely untenable, but more like "new plagiarism".

However, some netizens believe that fashion design has borrowed elements from all over the world, not only from the West, but also from us. Art is inherently interconnected and has no national boundaries. Whoever designs a good-looking design will be liked by everyone.

The author disagrees with this view. Although "art has no borders", it is understandable to learn from foreign elements. Objectively speaking, it may even be beneficial to the popularity of Chinese elements or traditional Chinese clothing culture around the world, but this must not be a reason for Dior to copy the horse-faced skirt. If we If you remain silent on this, consumers will only think that this is a Dior element, not a Chinese element.

In addition, many big brands will apply for patents for their own clothing designs. If Dior also applies for relevant patents for this skirt, it will be very difficult for businesses in our country to produce their own horse-faced skirts in the future. It may be necessary to pay a large amount of royalties to Dior, which cannot be ignored. In fact, if Dior could openly admit in its product introduction that it borrowed or was inspired by the Chinese horse-faced skirt, it would actually be the best of both worlds. Through this matter, there are some things worth pondering for us. When others stare at the cultural relics in our museums and try to learn from our excellent traditional culture, why do some of us turn a blind eye to our own excellent traditional culture?

Although the national fashion trend has become very popular in recent years, there are still many fashion designers in China who still believe that Western popular elements are the fashion elements of the world, so they blindly cater to them. This point can be seen from Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts This can be seen in all the "squinting eyes" catwalks. There are countless examples of this. In the final analysis, this kind of values ????that worship foreigners and favor foreigners still lack cultural confidence.

There is nothing wrong with learning the excellent culture of a foreign country and it is worthy of encouragement, but it is not advisable to belittle oneself for it. Our country has a splendid and long-standing traditional culture. In this huge resource, there is no shortage of aesthetics, elements, and innovation. It is like an inexhaustible cornucopia. Since we are born with a unique " "Bringing the conditions of "ism", why not discover, explore and develop our traditional culture with all our heart?