On July 14, some netizens questioned that foreign luxury goods Dior were suspected of plagiarizing China's horse-faced skirt . According to a mid-length skirt sold on Dior's official website for 29,000 yuan, Dior officially claimed that the design was "Dior's iconic silhouette" The front and back pieces of this skirt are overlappingly cut, but in Chinese horse-face skirt designs, they are usually two-piece, with the front and back smooth and pleated left and right. This is a rare and typical shape that is rarely seen in other skirt designs. arrive. Apparently this Dior skirt is almost exactly the same as the Chinese horse-faced skirt!
Dior plagiarized the horse-faced skirt, an ancient Chinese costume.
As soon as the news was released, it quickly aroused heated discussions on the Internet! Some netizens said that this is not plagiarism, because the horse-faced skirt does not have intellectual property rights, nor is it an intangible cultural heritage, but this is more serious than plagiarism. It is cultural appropriation. Whenever something like this happens, some people say it’s our fault for not protecting or promoting it. Why don’t we apply for World Heritage status?
As of December 2020, 42 projects in China have been included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List (List) by UNESCO , ranking first in the world. It’s not that we don’t apply for World Heritage, but it’s very difficult to apply for it. The difficulty is that our country has too many natural heritages and cultural heritages, and there are limits on the number of applications for World Heritage every year, so our country has too many heritage sites and we simply can’t apply. . Many of our country's cultural heritage cannot all be protected through "listing for World Heritage".
So what is cultural appropriation? In fact, this is similar to cultural plagiarism, which is to borrow cultural resources from foreign countries or other ethnic groups that do not belong to the local area, thereby affecting the local culture and creating new cultural products and phenomena. For example, Hua Mulan, Kung Fu Panda are very typical examples of cultural appropriation. Of course there are good cultural appropriations and there are bad ones. The good ones can achieve a win-win situation, but the bad ones are like , Dior, , which don’t admit it at all, and claim to be original, and want to redefine our cultural heritage as theirs. This is terrible! This time, the horse-faced skirt imitates one of the Chinese Hanfu styles. What about next time?
Repeated plagiarism offender Dior
Hanfu has a long way to go. Its biggest dilemma is how to make clothes that truly conform to the shape, combined with corresponding famous items, gradually return to the public's vision. This aspect takes time, because The period of modernization that Hanfu has lost is due to a certain dynasty, so it cannot be achieved overnight. However, the improvement of horse-faced skirts and modern mix-and-match are actually good attempts. Again, don’t make mistakes. The clothes made in the Ming Dynasty are promoted as Ming Dynasty clothes. We are not Ming people. Since they are clothes worn by modern people, they are contemporary Chinese clothes. However, this kind of clothes is related to the Ming Dynasty and was inherited from the Ming Dynasty. Traditional tradition is Tradition and tradition, behind the clothes, what is revived is life, cultural identity, blood identity, national identity, and a re-examination of one's own history.
