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The National: Fashion's beautiful relationship with artPress review
published : February 01 2012
category : highlights
The cooperation between art and fashion become much more frequently than before. We choose this article for introduce some new trends in fashion design such as prints and 3D textiles, also some descriptions for several brillant designers and artists with their work.
There's a real buzz about the vivid, almost saccharine sweet pastel shades that will define spring/summer 2012 fashion.
That, and of course the other huge trend of the moment: thrilling prints and 3D textiles. Sometimes it's hard to tell one from the other because the surface is textured, which heightens the overall trompe l'oeil effect of the print.
Leaders of the print movement are, perhaps not surprisingly, many of the designers who have orchestrated the defining palette of the season. They include the Canadian-born Erdem Moralioglu, whose digi-prints of florals this season were enhanced by fabric flowers layered on top, as well as the gifted colourist Jonathan Saunders. And Mary Katrantzou.
For her fashion show last September, the Greek-born designer, who like Erdem and Scottish-born Saunders works from London, created an installation from pungently scented real flowers dyed to enhance their natural colours, then arranged in blocks of three for the backdrop…
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This article has been selected by Xavier Latapie / Modemonline