Tata Jazz Blog: Tendency:The color and shape of fall 2012

Illustration Rene Gryuo

The upcoming season will be a triumph of color and shape, as bequeathed couturier Christian Dior in 1947, creating a new look first dress Smolny dense color. In the late 40's the idea caught illustrator René Gryuo, drawing dresses haute couture chiseled silhouettes and rich, power colors: golden-red, velvety green, heavy gray. As well as the illustrations Gryuo, in the collections of autumn-winter 2012, we noticed the color bound, dominant throughout the image, and the clarity of form, which creates the image.

Black Christophe Lemaire in the interiors of William Hammersheya

In the collection of the French designer Christophe Lemaire dominates dull black, and the skyline of many sharp, caustic angles. Pants-pipes plus direct coat with geometric cut - style as "with someone else's shoulder" in combination with the color sends us to the "interior" by Danish artist Wilhelm Hammersheya symbolist, which in the same way the volume and the void space filled with sharp angles and painting, doors and window frames

Lanvin collection and flowers of Dutch paintings from the XVII century

Color collection Haider Ackermann and elements XVII century Dutch still life

Antipode of the formula "simple color + simple form of" Christophe Lemaire is a collection of Lanvin, promising motley multicolored autumn and private, really cool style. Colors - dusty, like a watered down white paint, with still lifes of Jan and Peter De Veermera Hoch. Form - hard, sculpture, clearly traced with architectural details: Basques, tight belt and collar. Colors Dutch still life, this time appeared in the collection of magician black Haider Ackermann: the color of ripe pears, dried rosebuds Colombian designer framed in long layered silhouette that despite soft and smooth lines, the right to be called an architectural.

Calvin Klein and the painting of Will Barnet

In the collection of Calvin Klein dominated classic black and red - to make practical inherent minimalism and perfect asceticism. Straight lines coats, skirts and tops, bells resemble coal-black tree trunks from unnamed American paintings Will Barnet - as if lifeless, without veins, furry leaves and crowns. Similarly, Francisco Costa deprived of any collection of decorative elements, building it entirely around a well-defined contours and colors.

Comme des Garcons collection autumn-winter 2012 and the suit Dadaist Hugo Ball, 1916

A creative director of the brand Comme des Garcons Rei Kawakubo models dressed in costumes, decorations for the school theater, as if glued together from sheets of cardboard ornamental. Suitable poetry in this respect there is Natalya Medvedeva, "In the Swiss city of Zurich lived Lenin / mayalsya among snow doll decoration ..." Same "doll decoration" - artistic, political and philosophical youth movement, founded the Zurich "Cabaret Voltaire" at the beginning of XX century and settled there. Founder of the name was Hugo Ball, and they knew him because of the unchanging suit pants tubes of shiny cardboard, rigid dress-coats, robes, so keep the form that it appears to be made of sheet steel and shiny cylindrical cap-crown. Those "cocoon" - a collection of Comme des Garcons, as well as that of Hugo Ball, covered by one color: pale pink, pale purple, classic red and blue, "electrician". That's autumn-winter 2012 combines all the colors and shapes: from monochrome minimalism to motley Dadaism. And who would now have thought that we were looking for inspiration in the silhouette new look?