Art & Usability of Milan fashion week

As everyone knows the Milan fashion week is always the fashion week to look forward to. They're the fashion week where you expect the unexpected but at the same time know that all the designs are going to be daring and over the top.



The desgins that I saw in Milan's fashion week was all about shape, sillhouette, color, and eyecatching textures. A real great example of art that I found was D&G's collection. Their designs were based on the sea and a had sailor-type theme. The garments all had the white, red and navy colors that are known to be associated with sailors and they also had the cute sailboat and anchor emblems on the clothes as well. The collection had a boyish yet femenine look to it by having loose fitting clothes but they were loose in all the right places and had certain tweaks to them that made them sexy at the same time. Then towards the end of the collection, the clothes became more extravagant with alot of gold, more patterns, and parts of the garment that blossomed out.

(Lily Donaldson)

I think all the designers did a great job of taking something that everyone is familiar with, using it as a theme to base their clothes off of, but then twisting it in their own artistic way by going beyond the theme and adding onto it. That way when we as an audience look at their collection, we have a sense of the theme, but at the same time we can't pinpoint it because there is so many different ways to analyze the garments.

Source of Inspiration

I did sketch clothes by hand at one time but then I stopped. I didn't have a urge to continue to draw anymore but I might start back up just for fun. But when i did draw I felt like my inspiration came from everything that I seen around me including my own imagination. When I drew I thought about everything from shapes to nature. I would think about unordinary shapes and angle them differently then incorporate it into whatever type of garment I drew. Sometimes I would think of ocean water and create a dress that I imagine would flow like waves in the ocean. Some of my inspiration also came from clothes that I've seen on celebrities or desginer clothes that I would see on the internet or in magazines. I would think about what caught my eye and mesh it all together into one garment that I thought would visually show the inspiration but at the same time not be a duplicate of what has already been done.


My inspiration basically comes from everthing and not one specific thing and I feel like that would create a good sketch of a garment. I haven't sketched a garment in about two years but taking this class is pushing me to start sketching again.