Category Archives: Enveloping the Body

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”

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”

Silhouette: The silhouette of a garment is not only determined by how a garment is cut, but also by the softness and fluidity of the textile used. The silhouette is the overall shape of a garment that determines the outline of the form. Volume: Closely associated with silhouette, volume addresses the space around the bodyContinue reading “Textile Qualities”

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”

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”

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”