World Textile final

Vivid Illusions - A World Textile Project Archita Kaur Dhodi End Term Jury Textile Department Semester 5

In the sky, we had rediscovered The moving principle of any art The light, and the motion of colour! — Sonia Delaunay

About – Sonia Delaunay Symbolism Some Famous Designs Modern World Influence Concept Note Mood Board Client Board Forms and Motif Generation Final Prints and Drapes

Sonia Delaunay The avant-garde queen of wearable art Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), a legendary figure in the Parisian avant- garde and the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964. Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian- born French artist and fashion designer, a multi-disciplinary abstract artist and key figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Alongside her husband, Robert Delaunay, she pioneered the movement Simultanism.. Along with her husband, Robert Delaunay, and others, she cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design, and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. While history has favored her husband’s ‘high-brow’ abstract paintings over her eclectic, decorative approach, in recent decades major galleries and museums have finally woken up to the strength of her legacy, including Tate Modern and The Paris Museum of Modern Art. A pop art portrait in memory of Sonia Delaunay

Symbolism Bathing suits designed by Delaunay, c1920s Russian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay is among those Art Deco designers who even today strongly influence fashion trends. Inspired by Delaunay, in garments of her Cubism, Fauvism and working closely with Surrealist poetry school and own design. Dada artists, she was the first designer to introduce abstract inspiration into the world of fashion. The concept of geometric design was ultimately new and fashionable during the decade between 1920 and 1930, and some of her best pieces come from this period. Her bold combinations of colors and textiles brought her the title of the designer of modern fashions during the 1925 Expo and she became famous for her patchwork dresses, which were experiments in simultanéisme, an odd and modern mix of different colors and materials. “Simultaneous” was a word that Delaunay applied to much of her work — paintings, illustrations, printed textiles, and embroideries. The word “simultaneous” referred primarily to her particular take on hue (in which contrasts co-exist, lending images and fabrics movement and multiplicity), but extended beyond this to describe her collaborative and often multidisciplinary methods of working. While other artists of her generation struggled with disciplinary boundaries, she happily ignored the distinctions that were assumed to exist between fine and applied art, or indeed between art, craft, and commercial design. In the 1920s her collaboration with Dadaist artists resulted in the creation of her “poem dresses” where geometric blocks of colors were placed next to the lines of poetry. As one of the most important Art Deco artists, Sonia Delaunay also made imaginative waistcoats for Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, Rene Crevel and other Surrealist poets and even today her abstract designs influence high- end fashion collections.

Famous Works Delaunay’s simultaneous fashions Painting by Sonia Delaunay Coat made for Gloria Swanson Yellow Nude 1908 (1924) on the cover of Vogue (January, 1925) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Rhythm Colour no. 1076 (1939) Fabric designed by Sonia Delaunay on the walls of Simultané playing cards (1964) the Delaunay family salon, 1925 Courtesy Bibliothéque nationale de France

Modern Influence Delaunay’s work in modern design displays concepts of geometric abstraction, as well as the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing. But Delaunay’s simultaneous fashions were also modern, and modernist, in their use of fabric as a plane. Among her contemporaries in couture, her designs were perhaps definitively planar, two-dimensional, in their treatment of material. Her work has much in common with the Bauhaus treatment of planes and surfaces (indeed Walter Gropius was a friend of Delaunay’s, and a great admirer of her interiors). Her textiles and fashions were distributed worldwide in department stores In a way, YSL’s Mondrian dress and boutiques, promoting her to a place of prominence in the fashion world. achieved Sonia Delaunay’s modernist vision of the popularisation of art, and the democratisation of fashion Sonia Delaunay’s Influence Sonia Delaunay Paintings at Tate Modern A famous book on Sonia Delaunay

Print Collection – Vivid Illusions

Concept Note In more-progressive parts of the world, genderless fashion is nothing new, but for a place steeped in conservatism, like India, the idea is still rather niche. Keeping this in mind, I decided to blend the ideas presented by Sonia Delaunay and integrate these to a bring a gender neutral Autumn- Winter collection to life While people would usually present their womenswear-centric designs on mostly female bodies, I believe men can wear these styles, too. InsStteaagde, t3hey are \"genderless\" in that the fashion is fluid, not inherently masculine or feminine, and the styles can fit all body types.

Mood Board Vivid Elation Unbound Colour Palette Pantone 727C Pantone 7608C Pantone 7730C Pantone 7527C Pantone 7769C Pantone 727C Pantone 7608C Pantone 7730C Pantone 7527C Pantone 7769C

Client Board Collection Name : Vivid Illusions Category : Gender Neutral Clothing- Casual Season : Autumn – Winter Age Group : 18 -25 Economic Status : Upper Middle Class For the folks, who are open for experimentation and like exploring and indulging in adventures along with having a cozy attitude towards people from different walks of life. They aim to live life to the utmost, reaching out eagerly and fearlessly for a newer and richer experience. They are social and share fun experiences with those around them.

Forms & Motif Generation Balancing Pyramids The Confusion of S Colourful Imagination Dancing Madame Beehive

Prints & 3D Mapping

Print 1 ● Repeat Size : 4x4 ● Scale : 35% ● Repeat Type : All Over Print

Print 2 ● Repeat Size : 4x4 ● Scale : 40% ● Repeat Type : All Over Print

Print 3 ● Repeat Size : 5x7 ● Scale : 10% ● Repeat Type : Placement Print

Print 4 ● Repeat Size : 4x4 ● Scale : 30% ● Repeat Type : All Over Print

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