Name/Title
Sonia Delaunay : art into fashionEntry/Object ID
TT505.D45.M6Description
The exciting, novel fashions of Sonia Delauney, a member of the avant-garde movement in Paris in the early twentieth century, heralded the advent of a radically new concept in clothing design. Like many champions of Modernism, Sonia Delauney believed that art should be used to redecorate modern life, and that design should be truly artistic. By applying the bright colors of the peasant costumes from her native Russia to the elegant silhouettes that were currently in vogue in Paris, she translated theory into practice and produced a stunning series of clothes for the Jazz Age. Like the contemporary Orphist paintings created by her husband Robert, Sonia Delauney's designs are characterized by their vibrant colors and sharply patterned geometric collages. They were worn by starlets Gloria Swanson and Gaby; her imaginative theater costumes were commissioned by another great advocate of Modernism, Diaghilev, for the Bullet Russes. Indeed, Sonia Delauney's clothing, as exalted in the poetry of Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire, epitomized the spirit of the new age. Illustrated throughoutCollection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
art--abstract, carol westfall collection, costume design--france, fashion designersBook Details
Author
Sonia Delaunay, Elizabeth MoranoPublisher
George BrazillerDate Published
1986Call No.
TT505.D45.M6ISBN
807611662, 9780807611661LCCN
75519053Notes
Length: 104