Design Inspiration from Different Countries

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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)

Mood Boards

Student mood boards by Aysın Kadirbeyoğlu, Öykü Esen, İdil Sevda Öksüz.

More Mood Boards

Student mood boards by Naz Beşcan, Gülmin Coşar, and Begüm

Fashion Figure Drawing

Fashion tutorials and design templates at: www.fashion-templates.com/about/creatingfigures

Prada FW 2008 Lookbook

Miuccia Prada is about to do for the lace industry what Nicolas Ghesquière did for flower printers last season—send the mills into frantic overdrive. After glimpsing a piece of lace in her studio and at first ignoring it, she found the handmade fabric crept up on her, to the point where it took over almost the entire collection. "I thought using a little bit here and there is tacky, so we've had all Switzerland working on couture lace. They're in shock," Prada laughed after the show. "When you are working on something simple, the surface is important. I wanted to do minimal, something that was feminine and strong—but in the end, not so sexy. And there are a lot of references to early nineties Prada in there." (Sarah Mower for PRADA FW 2008 womenswear @style.com)

PRADA FW 2008 LOOKBOOK
Lok Jansen an illustrator and architect living and working in Tokyo in collaboration with illustrator and graphic designer Jeroen Koolhaas did the artwork of the PRADA FW 2008 Lookbook, produced by OMA*AMO - Rem Koolhaas with Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli. (Read and see more at: yatzer.com/postDetails.php?post=1210

Mood Boards

A mood board is a tool used by designers to help them get a good idea of what their clients are looking for. Mood boards are basically collages of items such as photographs, sketches, clippings, fabric swatches and color samples. A mood board can be actual or virtual. A mood board is used by many different types of designers such as those in fashion and interior design.

A fashion mood board usually has sketches of garments as the main focus of the board. Fashion mood boards may also have magazine clippings or other sketches of what inspired the designer such as pictures of ocean waves for the design of a dark blue silk gown. Trimming details and ribbon could also be on a fashion mood board. (Examples from: fashioncapital.co.uk and www.fashion-era.com)

The Mood Board of Kristina Klarin

"I’m a freelance textile and fashion designer. I adore colors, but often find myself very limited by color schemes which repeat in my mind. For me, the best recipe against this mental laziness is to take photographs of seemingly insignificant things which often hide an infinity of fresh and surprisingly beautiful color palettes." (www.erayo.com/BlogEditors/post/2008/01/Kris-Mood-Board.aspx)

Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan was born in nicosia, cyprus in 1970. Chalayan is an internationally regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. he was educated both in Cyprus and England, at London's strict highgate boarding school. In 1993 he graduated from London's central St Martins College of art and design. He caused a sensation with his graduate collection decomposed silk dresses he had buried and exhumed. Since then he has produced more than 20 collections and twice been crowned british designer of the year (1999, 2000). Chalayan is inspired by architectural theories, science and technology. he famously produced a collection which included chairs and tables that became garments. (/www.designboom.com/eng/interview/chalayan.html)