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Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973)
The Italian-born French couturière Elsa Schiaparelli is best known for the iconoclastic bravado and unrestrained, at times brazen, originality of her work. While her contemporaries Gabrielle Chanel and Madeleine Vionnet set the period's standards of taste and beauty in fashion design, Schiaparelli flouted convention in the pursuit of a more idiosyncratic style. As much an artist as a dress designer, she commandeered the talents of a host of prominent artisans and artists, most notably those associated with the Surrealist movement. Distilling their disquieting dream-based imagery and provocative concepts through her own creative process, she incorporated themes inspired by contemporaneous events, erotic fantasy, traditional and avant-garde art, and her own psyche into her designs. A repertoire of inventive devices—experimental fabrics with pronounced textures, bold prints with unorthodox imagery and colors, opulent embroideries, outsized and exposed zippers, and distinctive buttons and ornaments ranging from the whimsical to the bizarre—was her medium of creative expression.
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art s involvement with proponents of the surrealist movement in art and, later, to an acquaintance with revolutionary fashion designer paul poiret around 1924. dabbling at the time in writing and gold sculpting, she was also making clothes for herself and her two close friends. poiret noted her sartorial flair and was the first to encourage her to pursue dressmaking as a suitable outlet for her artistic leanings. ... early career, 1927–41 ...
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Tate Collection | Untitled (Clothes) by Mark Dickenson mark dickenson born 1972 untitled (clothes) 1995 video duration: 18 min., 52 sec. installation presented anonymously 1997 t07316 filmed in the confined space of a toilet, the artist puts on all the clothes in his wardrobe. the daily ritual of getting dressed is taken to absurd extremes in this repetitive and obsessive performance .
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=22104 [89 words]
Tate Collection | Clotheshanger of the North by Luciano Fabro the estate of luciano fabro clotheshanger of the north 1981 attacapanno del nord... mixed media displayed: 3120 x 1700 x 1600 mm sculpture... purchased 2005... t12003 fabro visited naples in 1976 and was taken by the colourful clothes hanging on washing lines. prompted by this everyday source, but also thinking about baroque folds and sunset colours, he began a series of works called the attaccapanni or 'clotheshangers'.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=85278 [130 words]
Tate Collection | Clothes on the Grass by Georges Seurat georges seurat 1859-1891 clothes on the grass 1883 vetements sur l'herbe oil on wood frame: 288 x 370 x 41 mm support: 162 x 248 mm painting presented by alex reid and lefevre 1926 n04203 this is one of a series of small studies in oil on panel for seurat'
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=13321 [182 words]
Vest - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections cotton museum number: t.70-1994 gallery location: in store order this image summary more information map download pdf version this vest formed part of an outfit put together by derek falconer of crazy clothes for the exhibition streetstyle, from sidewalk to catwalk, 1940 to tomorrow held at the v&a in 1994-5. the complete outfit consisted of a crocheted wool tam (hat); a cotton army surplus jacket and shirt;
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O138016/vest/ [430 words]
Vest - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections 181-1994 gallery location: in store image in copyright summary more information map download pdf version this white cotton string vest formed part of an outfit put together by derek falconer of crazy clothes for the exhibition streetstyle, from sidewalk to catwalk, 1940 to tomorrow held at the v&a in 1994-5. the complete outfit consisted of a black wool hat, a khaki cotton shirt, the vest, cotton twill trousers and leather shoes.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O138109/vest/ [381 words]
Liverpool museums - 'Outfit from the Buffalo Girl collection ' , by Vivienne Westwood | Artwork of the Month see a larger version about the artwork... vivienne westwood is perhaps best-known, together with her former partner, malcolm mclaren, as one of the pioneers of punk fashion during the late 1970s. their clothes shop, under various names, in london's kings road was at the centre of the punk movement. in 1981 westwood launched herself as a fashion designer and began to look to a whole range of influences for her designs, encouraged by mclaren.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?id=316 [821 words]