(www.elgiechevalierdesigns.org)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Musa Widyatmodjo: Merging Fashion With Tradition
Fashion designer Musa Widyatmodjo believes fashion is like wearable art.
His recent fashion show/dance performance, "Dara Fashion Performing Arts" told the story of a Minang woman who was in love with an ethnic Chinese man.
Just like in real life, they faced the obstacle of cultures and norms in Indonesia when they decided to marry.
Nonetheless, the show had a happy ending: the couple received the blessings of both sets of parents. But it was their wedding that intrigued the crowd.
"I want to resurrect Indonesian traditions that were long buried."
Musa also hoped the show would inspire others to merge fashion with tradition.
www.thejakartapost.com
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Creating Art from Art: Yves Saint Laurent
"Mondrian" day dress, autumn 1965
Yves Saint Laurent (French, born Algeria, 1936)
Wool jersey in color blocks of white, red, blue, black, and yellow
Gift of Mrs. William Rand, 1969 (C.I.69.23)
As the sack dress evolved in the 1960s into the modified form of the shift, Saint Laurent realized that the planarity of the dress was an ideal field for color blocks. Knowing the flat planes of the 1960s canvases achieved by contemporary artists in the lineage of Mondrian, Saint Laurent made the historical case for the artistic sensibility of his time. Yet he also demonstrated a feat of dressmaking, setting in each block of jersey, piecing in order to create the semblance of the Mondrian order and to accommodate the body imperceptibly by hiding all the shaping in the grid of seams. (www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/11/euwf/ho_C.I.69.23.htm)
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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