Part Five: Textiles: Chiharu Shiota’s Thread Installation Art

‘In Silence:’ a brilliant breathtaking example of installation art or simply a tangled ball of yarn thrown into a room? By definition, an art installation piece is a three-dimensional visual artwork, often created for a specific-place, and is designed to change the perception of space. Installation art can be done in all types of materialsContinue reading “Part Five: Textiles: Chiharu Shiota’s Thread Installation Art”

David Lachapelle’s Disaster Series

The image above is a piece from Lachapelle’s ‘Disaster Series’ done for Vogue Italia in 2005. Chromogenic print, 39 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches, 100.3 x 151.1 cm,  Silhouette: It’s a very draped silhouette, with not much of a shape around the body. The cut of the garment doesn’t show off the models figure that much, itsContinue reading “David Lachapelle’s Disaster Series”

Designer Brand which use Pattern and Print

Burberry is a luxury designer brand that uses a lot of pattern in their pieces. The tartan pattern is used a lot in Burberry clothing, and the beige tartan print is used very often in their signature clothing. Burberry’s signature pattern is a pattern that indeed can be used by other brands and other companies,Continue reading “Designer Brand which use Pattern and Print”

Woven Tweed Fabrics Used in Garment Design

Chanel are famous for their tactile woven tweed fabrics, developed every season in collaboration with woven textile manufacturers. They often explore new fibres and new yarn design and composition to update and reinvigorate the traditional tweed, emphasising its sumptuous texture. In the Autumn 2013 ready-to-wear collection the fabrics defied comprehension, anything that looked woven veryContinue reading “Woven Tweed Fabrics Used in Garment Design”

Fashion Imagery

Richard Avedon‘s iconic imagery captures the movement of textiles, garments, and models in striking poses. You can feel the drape and weight of the textile used to create the garments. It’s generally difficult to represent the kinetic energy present in garments through still photography, but Avedon’s images seek both present and add to this dynamic.Continue reading “Fashion Imagery”

Enveloping the Body

Textiles in relation to the body come from many forms, from fashion t part and somewhere in between. The tactile, visual, drape, handle, protective and durable qualities of textiles all lend themselves to expression and to wearing. The overriding concerns of producing garments are aesthetics, the functional qualities of the textiles, cost, production possibilities, andContinue reading “Enveloping the Body”

Christian Boltanski’s “Personnes”

“Personnes” is an installation piece at the Grand Palais in Paris done in 2010. ‘Personnes’ means both ‘people’ and ‘nobodies’ which is already intriguing itself, as to why Boltanski picked a word so contrasting to itself. Because of it’s contrasting title the viewer is already curious and already drown to the piece to know more.Continue reading “Christian Boltanski’s “Personnes””

Textiles in Context p.5

Marianne Straub: Maquette Textile 1970 Moquette derived from the French word carpet. Art or DESIGN Temporary or PERMANENT Large Scale or SMALL SCALE TRANSFORMING and/or DEFINING and/or Forming IMMERSIVE and/or Distant PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or REPETITION and/or Shape Straub’s standard moquette textile was used throughout 1970 on London buses and Underground trains, and also someContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.5”

Textiles in Context p.4

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Clouds ART or Design Temporary or PERMANENT LARGE SCALE or Small Scale Transforming and/or Defining and/or FORMING IMMERSIVE and/or DISTANT PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or Repetition and/or SHAPE The Bouroullec brothers use textiles to create connectable pieces, joined by elastic bands and composed to build textiles clouds. These clouds can be suspendedContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.4”

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