10 Influential Fashion Designers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of It’s curious to wonder why some designer’s legacies are preserved and others fall to the wayside. Is it the lack of PR, no heir to the design house or were they just bad designers? While certain designers of the past are remembered today for their ingenuity or are attributed with the "invention" of a particular garment, such as Mary Quant and the miniskirt, scores of designers--like Redfern, Lucile or Mainbocher--who were widely influential in their time have seemingly been forgotten. The task of resurrecting these legacies thus falls upon the fashion historian, so sit back for a mini fashion history lesson of 10 fashion designers you've probably never heard of but should definitely know. For more fashion history by Part Nouveau, click here. John Redfern - The Tailor Designer English designer John Redfern, operating predominately under the name John Redfern and Sons, was a widely influential designer in the late 19th century. Jacques Doucet - The Art Collector Designer
Sarajevo Artist Creates Math-Inspired Origami Dresses From Paper, Textiles | Ecouterre While most of us have forgotten the basics of high-school geometry, Sarajevo student-designer Amila Hrustic finds inspiration in the ancient branch of mathematics. "Plato's Collection," an assortment of origami-esque dresses made from paper and textiles, is a mass of edges, vertices, and faces, with each dress corresponding to one of the five Platonic solids (the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron). What culminates is a series of artfully structured forms that are as pleasing to the eye as they are mathematically sublime. Amila Hrustic, a student at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Sarajevo, found herself gravitating towards geometry—specifically Platonic solids—during her four years studying product design. Her love affair with the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron led to her diploma project, “Plato’s Collection,” a line of dresses that embody the forms’ aesthetic beauty and symmetry. + Amila Hrustic
All Workspaces: Spring 2015 Pantone Fashion Color Report - from Pantone.com Alice & Trixie by Angela George The creative director, designers and sales teams all sit in an open space - bringing creativity and input to all areas of the company, while the production team and sewers (not pictured) help create amazing garments that are produced right here in New York. Banjanan by Caroline Weller I like to surround myself by all my inspiration and fabric developments as I pull my final collections together, in this case SP15. My PANTONE FASHION + HOME guide is always at my side - you can see how dog eared it is! Connect With Banjanan Visit www.banjanan.com BCBGMAXAZRIA Submission by Lubov Azria, Chief Creative Officer Betsey Johnson Bibhu Mohapatra My desk is my drawing board - a creative sanctuary where all ideas come to life with my drafting pencil and paper. Christian Siriano In the studio creating a custom black beaded feather gown for a client. Cynthia Steffe Daniel Silverstain David Hart David Tlale Dennis Basso Ella Moss by Pamella Protzel-Scott Gents Jay Godfrey Nanette Lepore
Is it really OK to sell other people's Instagrams as art? Is Richard Prince a "trolling genius" or a plain old rip-off merchant? Prince's New Portraits series sparked furious debate this week when some of the images were shown at Frieze Art Fair in New York, simply because of his creative process – he'd not really made anything, just stolen people's Instagrams, mainly from one feed called Suicide Girls, an account with 3.3 million followers that posts pictures of tattooed women in seductive poses. Prince sold one of his works for $90,000; in retaliation, Suicide Girls founder Missy Suicide offered to sell her own prints for $90, with any proceeds going to charity. For what it's worth, Missy Suicide doesn't really give a fuck about what Prince is doing. Is Prince's work ethically sound? So Richard Prince has sparked controversy. The banal questions of “but is this ART???” Yeah, the Old Masters are great and all, but to me, that’s what art is about. Emma Hope Allwood, Fashion Features Writer Appropriation is one thing. Trey Taylor, Film Editor
Designers | PatternVault Search: PatternVault Fashion history through sewing patterns. Designers An index to this blog’s posts on commercial patterns by a single designer or design duo. Badgley Mischka Belinda Bellville and Bellville Sassoon Alber Elbaz for Guy Laroche Frederick Fox Diane von Fürstenberg John Galliano for Givenchy Rudi Gernreich Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis Patrick Kelly Krizia Christian Lacroix Hervé L. Bob Mackie Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Bruce Oldfield Yves Saint Laurent (Mondrian collection) Elsa Schiaparelli Anna Sui Isabel Toledo Gianni Versace Gianni Versace for Genny and Complice Madeleine Vionnet Vera Wang Damian Yee for Guy Laroche Share this: Like this: Like Loading... § 3 Responses to Designers Clare Nightingale (@drasticsturgeon) says: December 2, 2012 at 8:36 am Would be fab if you could do a post on Byron Lars patterns. Leave a Reply Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The Oulipo Theme. Follow Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 699 other followers Build a website with WordPress.com
Culture - Ethiopian hipster style Wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Coca Cola’ and ‘Obama’ and mixing hairclips with traditional tribal beads in their hair, the men and women of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley might appear to flaunt their style in the same way as urban hipsters. Yet this is a look unmediated by social media. Spanish-born photographer Alex Franco has documented the striking fashions adopted by the valley’s tribes in his Eastern Ways project. “Wherever you look, you’ll see an amazing pose; you’ll see an amazing look,” he says. “It’s an incredible sense of style… of mixing colours.” Franco believes they are free of some of the cultural pressures exerted in the West. You can see more videos from the BBC World Service on their Youtube channel.
Image Gallery - Design Download: ALYX - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystify the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. Past contributors to the series include John Galliano, Junya Watanabe, J.W. Anderson, Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander McQueen. For 2017, ALYX’s Matthew Williams has offered up a pattern from the brand’s A/W 17 collection. Once you've constructed your take on the dress, simply submit images of your creation to SHOWstudio via Twitter (@SHOWstudio #DesignDownload) and/or email (design.download@showstudio.com) for the chance to see your work displayed online in our submissions gallery.
Design Download: Giles Deacon - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. The ninth installment in the series comes from one of London's top talents; acclaimed designer, renowned wit and party dress doyen Giles Deacon. He's offered up the pattern to his saucy double duchess silk The Troubadour dress from his nature-inspired Autumn/Winter 2007 collection. The frock - which was modelled on the runway by Lara Stone - is part playful, part traditional, thanks to eighteenth century notes such as a regal square neckline and puff sleeves. We celebrated the artistic potential of Deacon's pattern with an amazing competition.
Image Gallery - Design Download: J.W. Anderson - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. For our tenth Design Download - launched as a special Christmas gift to viewers - J.W. Anderson offers up not one but two patterns, for a leather top and balloon skirt from his acclaimed A/W 13 collection. We will be celebrating the artistic potential of Anderson's pattern with a competition. Competition now closed as of 1 April 2014!
Design Download: Stephen Jones - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting The eighth pattern in our Design Download series celebrates the seemingly endless creativity, wit and invention of master milliner Stephen Jones. A leading figure in international fashion for three decades, Jones' work has garnered international acclaim ever since his graduation from Central Saint Martins in 1979. Credited as some of the most technically innovative and creative millinery of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Jones' work has topped the collections of designers including John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Comme des Garcons and Marc Jacobs' collections for his own label and Louis Vuitton. For SHOWstudio, Jones contributed a piece that epitomises the seemingly contradictory qualities of whimsical fantasy, stunning technique and unexpected practicality that characterise his work. A 'cut and sew' creation that requires no specialist millinery materials or training to realise its stunning form, Jones' hat is an exaggeration on the classic beret.
Weaving is back: Take a peep inside the studios of contemporary makers on the loom Weaving is back. Not only is it very popular among DIY'ers who try it at home with the help of a YouTube tutorial, there's also an exciting scene of professional designers, artisans and artists that revitalise the centuries-old craft today. From rugs and wall hangings to art installations and subversive interventions, contemporary expressions of the craft are as diverse as they are numerous. Now you can find out more about the movement thanks to a new book by design journalist Katie Treggiden, Weaving – Contemporary Makers on the Loom, that presents a survey of this vibrant revival, with profiles of over twenty contemporary weavers: Argentinian Alexandra Kehayoglou, for example, designs breath-taking natural landscapes (for the likes of Dries van Noten), while Daniel Harris makes textiles for famous clothing brands using nineteenth-century looms and Brent Wadden weaves museum-standard fabrics.