![]() One of my favorite designers is Dries van Noten. The dimensionality of the body is used by fashion designers to emphasize the graphic intensity of black and white. In fashion, the body rather than the fabric is the surface, the canvas for a creation. Since fashion designers create in a three dimensional medium, they can further experiment with these visual means. The impasto brushstrokes of Impressionism, the linear symmetry of Art Deco, the optical illusions of Op Art are all part of a graphic vocabulary that constantly reenters fashion. The lines and planes of black and white are for many designers the basis for innovative and modern design.įashion often takes inspiration from ideas previously explored in painting and graphic art. The graphic nature of black against white manipulates the eye, drawing its attention to where the designer wants it to look. ![]() Although the many meanings attached to black and white appeal to fashion designers, it is first and foremost the visual effect that inspires them. This week I’d like to show examples in which designers use the graphic nature of these two colors.Įvery design starts with a line, whether on paper, on a dress form, or a human body. Through the themes Structure, Lace and Flowers, I tried to illustrate that black and white dominant fashionable appearance for over a hundred years. In the past three weeks, I have attempted to show that the combination of black and white is a theme most, if not all, major designers have explored. This is the last and final part of the special four-parts post Fashion in Black & White.
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