Welcome to Spring Term 2021

Purple Haze  

Welcome to spring term 2021! unfortunately, this lockdown period does not want to end. But this certainly won't stop us from discovering other artists, new collections, and realizing new projects.

Surely it is not easy to get through this period but lean together and by keeping busy we can try to forget all this for a while. 

To realize my new project I have to choose one of the three themes given to me by my tutor. The project must have six results in 2D. So I decided to create a collection of six pieces.

These are the themes given to me: 

"1. Purple Haze. Use the color purple as your theme, consider what it represents and how it can be incorporated into your art or design project. 

2. Earthly Delights. Interpret this title as you please to represent, incorporate or express the nature of earthly delights in your art and design project. 

3. Expressionism. Look deeply into expressionism and incorporate this style into your art and design project. "

I can interpret these themes in any way I choose within my project.

As you can see from the title I decided on the first theme Purple Haze. 

Purple Vogue

To develop my project for now I am doing some basic research on how purple during the years in fashion has had its charm and its history. 

What flows on the catwalk, fanned in different shades of purple, the chromatic choice from Fatal Attraction that we are looking for, is hyper voluptuous femininity, of digital romanticism.

Linked to material obsession, thickness, and animal luxury, see Prada, or of a hypnotic technical genre, as deployed in the Balenciaga dress. The idea is, however, of an opulent dream, to be developed in garments that interpret Universal Glamor, "arty" and inventive attitude. The lace-tulle-transparency-decoration by Givenchy has a digital thread aesthetic, in the post-decadent black Angelo slip dress. More couture, arch-built, non-conformist in interpreting the classic with a Super Ordinary model, in the sense of going beyond it, the wide Dior skirt, purple on aubergine: neo-mannerist femininity, ton sur ton. Pale in the apparitions in ancient colors of the beginning of the century, decisive and shiny in the skirts and dresses of the great Fifties evening, almost playful in the minidresses or in the geometric rebellion fashion of the Sixties, purple reappears more later on. Eighties Viola to dance in the lights of the night. With a sequined minidress and double wing ruffles around doll sleeves with a gathered skirt and reimbursed at the bottom by Enrico Coveri. Otherwise, the night would be spent with a sequin top, big bows on the front and a taffeta skirt to accompany it, a double layer of silk, by Helyett. Otherwise, it could have been a Grisafi moiré taffeta jumpsuit, the puffy sleeves tightened at the bottom by maxi cuffs and three rows of pleated ruffles…. 

The Nineties A Mongolian coat is the point of purple with which Adrienne Landau breaks a post optical ensemble, while the satin of Prada ankle boots decrees the beginning of a totally minimal decade, entirely led by the brand. Despite the chiffon dress embroidered with flowers by Chanel, despite the redingote with gold buttons by Rena Lange: eighteenth-century interruptions, in purple variations. From the nineties onwards Tom Ford's sexy Gucci, which focuses on the purple palette, the purples intellectually declined by Prada, the sophisticated ones by Hèrmes by Gaultier, the purple that has always done and will always have an effect, Saint Laurent, in these years -interpreted by Pilati, the violet religiously intended by Givenchy, the deliberately nocturnal one by Versace, for a great evening if signed Lanvin.

References: 

SBISÀ, A., 2012. Viola. [online] Vogue Italia. Available at: <https://www.vogue.it/trends/ieri-e-oggi/2012/07/viola> [Accessed 3 February 2021].