Sunday, October 26, 2008

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.

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