Backstage at CIBELES MADRID FASHION
September 30th 2010 02:53
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Madrid Fashion Week is going great - some amazing style on the cat walk, and here are a couple of backstage shots with some very nice work being worn by some of the top models on show. Check out more at the links here or click on the images.
Have not seen corsets like these for some time, unless worn on stage by pop divas, or in legitimate historical theatre and film. They do not look as harsh and difficult to wear as the bad old days - actually if you are interested in the move towards this type of stuff a great place to go and look is the V&A Museum website. I have embedded the link through to them in the BOLD heading below.
They have some of the best fashion of old available to look at - and the comparison is worth making. The colours are modern, and the fabrics with their amazing sheen and textures are new to this style.
Notice the pastel colours, very big now and looking very nice. The sheer fabric, the lace and texture - all very NOW and in the future we will be seeing quite a lot of it, but why not, it is quite lovely. Not so keen on the raccoon eyes and the soccerball hair, but that doesn't need to be worn with the fashion, they just do that to create a big picture on the Catwalk.
All Tied-Up: The Corset in Contemporary Fashion
Why is the corset still in fashion? The presence in contemporary wardrobes of a garment from the 19th century, physically oppressive and associated with women's inferior status, suggests that somehow the image of the corset still finds an echo in our societies - though perhaps its meaning has evolved and changed.
Fashion designers from Central Saint Martin's School, London, share corset-inspired work. Curvaceous Fashion in Motion, the result of a competition took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in October 2001. BA Honours students were briefed to use 19th-century corsets, crinolines, bustles and brassieres from the V&A's collection as inspiration to create contemporary designs.
The disappearance and reappearance of the corset in 20th-century fashion seem to be linked to the cyclical changing of female shapes, especially to the waist being enhanced or concealed.
During the 20th century, the corset was regularly revived as outerwear when part of a revival, or simply suggested by designs that try to obtain the hourglass figure inherited from it.
According to the official story, in 1909 Poiret banned the corset after centuries of tyrannical reign over women's fashion. The fact that at the same time Poiret put women into hobble-skirts suggests that he didn't discard the corset to free them, but because the shape of the corset interfered with the lines of his newest designs. Poiret's dresses, with the focus positioned on the shoulders and not on the waist, would evolve into the bi-dimensional dresses of the 1920s.
Have not seen corsets like these for some time, unless worn on stage by pop divas, or in legitimate historical theatre and film. They do not look as harsh and difficult to wear as the bad old days - actually if you are interested in the move towards this type of stuff a great place to go and look is the V&A Museum website. I have embedded the link through to them in the BOLD heading below.
They have some of the best fashion of old available to look at - and the comparison is worth making. The colours are modern, and the fabrics with their amazing sheen and textures are new to this style.
Notice the pastel colours, very big now and looking very nice. The sheer fabric, the lace and texture - all very NOW and in the future we will be seeing quite a lot of it, but why not, it is quite lovely. Not so keen on the raccoon eyes and the soccerball hair, but that doesn't need to be worn with the fashion, they just do that to create a big picture on the Catwalk.
All Tied-Up: The Corset in Contemporary Fashion
Why is the corset still in fashion? The presence in contemporary wardrobes of a garment from the 19th century, physically oppressive and associated with women's inferior status, suggests that somehow the image of the corset still finds an echo in our societies - though perhaps its meaning has evolved and changed.
Fashion designers from Central Saint Martin's School, London, share corset-inspired work. Curvaceous Fashion in Motion, the result of a competition took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in October 2001. BA Honours students were briefed to use 19th-century corsets, crinolines, bustles and brassieres from the V&A's collection as inspiration to create contemporary designs.
The disappearance and reappearance of the corset in 20th-century fashion seem to be linked to the cyclical changing of female shapes, especially to the waist being enhanced or concealed.
During the 20th century, the corset was regularly revived as outerwear when part of a revival, or simply suggested by designs that try to obtain the hourglass figure inherited from it.
According to the official story, in 1909 Poiret banned the corset after centuries of tyrannical reign over women's fashion. The fact that at the same time Poiret put women into hobble-skirts suggests that he didn't discard the corset to free them, but because the shape of the corset interfered with the lines of his newest designs. Poiret's dresses, with the focus positioned on the shoulders and not on the waist, would evolve into the bi-dimensional dresses of the 1920s.
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