Imagine a world where fashion and architectural flamboyance could join forces to create a monster design industry, seizing influences from both sides of the design production and combining them to create one of the biggest revolutions that the creative industry has ever seen … Well that’s exactly what’s happening! Designers are taking influence from the environment around them and as a result creating this new thing we now call architectural style in women’s fashion.
There’s an old saying that believe it or not, retired architects make the most extraordinary fashion designers. Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent and Issey Miyake have all demonstrated that architecture is similar to fashion design in more ways than not. On one hand they both juxtapose novelty with originality thus creating a sense of nostalgia seen in the form of iconic and influential buildings. You see, architects and fashion designers both have a unique relationship with how measurements, dimensions and materials are used to collectively to create one-off statement pieces that forces one to acknowledge, admire and more importantly appreciate what stands before them.
Nevertheless the influence of architecture is indefinitely making its presence felt on the catwalk. Supple metals, lightweight glasses and lithe plastics typically used in building construction are now moving stealthily into what we know as Fashion Week. Simultaneously, architects are adopting techniques such as pleating and draping from traditional tailoring to create mega-structures that are indisputably breath-taking.
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Alexander McQueen's show featured an enormous web of fluorescent lighting
spun menacingly around his models |
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Giant globes float over the runway for a Yves Saint Laurent show
in Paris’ cavernous Grand Palais |
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| Hussein Chalayan serve a double purpose on clothing and furniture |
sincerely, desperately fashioned
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