Designers and their art

Sometimes designers (the clothing kind) can get a little out there and sometimes (like a lot of the time) they need some translations....

I had fun going through Christopher Kane's pieces for Spring, 2011, cause they are a great study in line and it's affect on different body shapes.

This first one is a great study to start with.  Remember these models are bone thin, and look at how these lines accentuate her bust line...also look and see how wide she seems at the hip - especially compared with some of the later styles.  Mr. Kane did a good job though placing the lower point of the diamond design at her lower waist (about belly button which is traditionally where a basque waist should be).  But our eyes want to flow out from that line or point at the bottom of the diamond which makes her hips looks larger.

Now often designers will do this on purpose.  This is a great design and worth a look.

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This one has a much better line and the reason is that the crux or the cross of the "X" hits right at the waist line.  Why is this such a great line?  Because the eye travels on the line of the X...that means it goes out toward the shoulders and in at the waist and out at the hips.  This is that classic cross-over look that makes a figure look more hourglass. 

Now if you have a very hourglass figure (IOW, your waist is so small it's out of proportion to the rest of your body), use that design above...it will accentuate your hips and shoulders more making your waist look more in proportion.

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This is also a good line, but you can see how the vertical waist stops the movement of the line at the hip...it's sort of like abrubuts eye movemtum!!!!  That's not really Latin, just one of Claire's efforts at humor!!!

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This one has a much better line movement on it and right under the bust....what this does is make the bust look larger. Why?  Because Mr. Kane has fitted right below the apex line of the bustline.  When you do this you always accentuate that apex point.  This is for gals who think they have a small bust, but at the same time that X accentuates the waist with line movement.

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Again, the waist line takes away from the hip line movement...and the jacket further takes away from it so that the major eye movement here is up and down.

It's sort of fun and interesting to take these apart and they make a perfect example of how we can use line and movement of line to de-accentuate those parts we don't like, and accentuate those parts we do.

 

Comments

[NancyDaQ]

Great study of the design lines, especially because all the examples are from the same collection.

[Bunny]

Very interesting and pretty fashions. Thanks for your analysis.