![]() ![]() Extremely popular, this YSL creation has inspired many other designers over the years, such as Prada for the FW11 collection, Supreme for the SS16 lookbook, Balmain SS15 or Hermès FW20. Each model, celebrated by the cover of Vogue Paris as "the dress of tomorrow", hid, behind the apparently minimalist look, meticulous workmanship that perfectly reproduced the color blocking pattern of Mondrian's works and integrated it with the avant-garde style of the youth movement of the Sixties. Amongst the many items on the catwalk, Mondrian's collection became famous for six cocktail dresses, known as De Stijlin honor of the movement founded by the artist. The Dutch painter's Neo-Plasticism and, in particular, his famous "colour-blocked" paintings, made of contrasting shades of black and white combined with red, blue and yellow, which he began to create towards the end of 1919, inspired the designer to create the 1965 autumn-winter Haute Couture collection, one of the most important and influential examples of the marriage between art and fashion. I don't think there is anything purer in the art world. However, the artist who most impressed him was Piet Mondrian, to the extent that he said: Yves Saint Laurent loved art and during his lifetime, together with his partner Pierre Bergé, put together a prestigious art collection that included masterpieces by Henri Matisse and Van Gogh. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the dress, Bertrand Guyon presented a new version of the famous model in Schiaparelli's SS17 Haute Couture collection. ![]() ![]() The woman, divorced and American at the time, was at the center of one of the biggest scandals in history because Edward VIII had decided to abdicate the English throne in order to marry her. At the time of its presentation, it was not so much the animal, which was considered an aphrodisiac and for Dalì was an explicit sexual symbol, that caused a big scandal, but the model wearing it in a series of photographs taken by Cecil Beaton, Wallis Simpson. It was a long dress in light, flowing silk organza, decorated with an illustration of the crustacean that occupied most of the skirt. Their most iconic creation, however, was the Lobster dress of 1937. One of the most complex, difficult, daunting arts because a dress, when it is born, already belongs to the past." Together, driven by "l'esprit surréaliste", they made legendary outfits: from Shoe bags to the suit with pocket-boxes inspired by the Anthropomorphic Stipo from phone-bags to the Skeleton Dress (later also revisited by brands such as Alexander McQueen or Christian Lacroix) which, thanks to a special technique, modeled the matelassé fabric by reproducing the ribs and other bones of the ribcage from garments decorated with Mae West's lips to perfume bottles. It's either beautiful or it's ugly." She replied with "Drawing clothes, it's not a job. He always said: "Drawing is the sincerity of art. They were bold, subversive, against the grain. Le Roy Soleil by Schiaparelli and Salvador DaliĮlsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalì were two of the most influential artistic figures of the 20th century, so unique and important that they won not only a place on the cover of Time, but in the art history. ![]()
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