De Stijl Fashion Design, Transformation (9th post)

De Stijl has inspired fashion design in all forms, from dresses to shoes & accessories.
This inspired me to design & create a dress inspired from De Stijl's paintings. Though I will not copy the design exactly , but I will take the main elements of this art movement and apply them to my design.

Examples;

By : Piet Mordrian
"Not being formally educated in art means that learning its history must be a self-taught subject, which I have a love/hate relationship with. My 'most-preferred' method of learning is documentaries (due in part to streaming Netflix), but sometimes I must rely on old fashioned art books or the Internet - aka: Google searches.

My latest subject is Piet Mondrian. His works of "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow" have been familiar to me for years. Although I never knew who painted them or how/why, those images were easily recognisable as being important pieces in art's history.

Just recently I had this unknown urge to dig into it a bit more. I think it may have been how simplistic and minimal these works were and how they used only the most basic of colours: the primaries (red, blue, yellow) and black and white. Without going into too much detail about him, Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter (1872-1944) known as "the father of geometric abstraction." He was a pivotal figure in the revolution of Modern Art that began with Cubism in the early 20th century. Around 1920, following the World War, he evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism (De Stijl). This consisted of the familiar white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colours.
Without doubt, Mondrian continues to still have an influence in art/design. His Composition works has inspired fashion, graphic art, architecture, and more. There have been numerous clothing brands that have produced products directly inspired by his work, even including Nike and Vans.  " - Piet Mordrian


At first I had the idea to create a simple T-Shirt with a De Stijl design , but as I sketched it and taught long about it I scrapped the idea because I saw that it was too simple and wanted to create something unique, fashionable and elegant in the same time. That was my aim for the design.
I wanted to have the dress in white & then i will stain myself the fabric with the rectangles & squares of De Stijl's paintings. The shape of the dress is to look similar to the top right hand corner photo, i want the dress to have a silhouette look to it. The colours used are to be very bright and carefully balanced.
Nowadays vivid coloured dresses are very much in fashion and this will help me in my design.

Bibliography ;
T.WAY talks: Piet Mondrian. 2012. T.WAY talks: Piet Mondrian. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.twaytalks.com/2011/07/piet-mondrian-tway.html. [Accessed 14 December 2012].