Vionnet
March 12th 2010 23:54
VIONNET 1996
Lydia Kamitsis
Vionnet is a volume in Thames and Hudson's Fashion Memoir Series.
There are a few designers who can genuinely claim to have produced clothes that truly are wearable art and Madeleine Vionnet (1876 - 1975) was one of them.
Her training and early employment in dressmaking lead to her being one of the first designers to reject corsets in favour of draped garments with bias cut and the photographs and illustrations in this book show just how splendid they were. She used complex drapes yet the minimal possible seams to create flowing drapes and any ornament whether it was beaded fringing or embroiderery is fully intergrated into the garment to enhance it.
She also treated her workers decently and never used sweat shop labour designing her workshops to be well lighted and comfortable.
Enjoy the Fashion Memoir series! I plan to read the rest of them.
Lydia Kamitsis
Vionnet is a volume in Thames and Hudson's Fashion Memoir Series.
There are a few designers who can genuinely claim to have produced clothes that truly are wearable art and Madeleine Vionnet (1876 - 1975) was one of them.
Her training and early employment in dressmaking lead to her being one of the first designers to reject corsets in favour of draped garments with bias cut and the photographs and illustrations in this book show just how splendid they were. She used complex drapes yet the minimal possible seams to create flowing drapes and any ornament whether it was beaded fringing or embroiderery is fully intergrated into the garment to enhance it.
She also treated her workers decently and never used sweat shop labour designing her workshops to be well lighted and comfortable.
Enjoy the Fashion Memoir series! I plan to read the rest of them.
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