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Show us something you wish you had made.
I saw this gorgeous yellow and black wool mantle at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It's by a French designer, Paul Poiret (1879–1944). I bought a postcard, thinking that one day I might try to copy its deconstructed kimono styling. But I never did. Or at least I haven't yet! More detail about the mantle can be found on the V&A website at this link. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers more background about Poiret here and here. (The Met has included some fascinating video animations showing how Poiret manipulated linear fabric into incredible draped and spiralled designs on the mannequins themselves, eschewing the traditional method of shaping garments from cut pattern pieces.)
Issey Miyake springs to mind as a contemporary manifestation of the technique. And in fact there is an Issey Miyake for Vogue jacket (the one on the left) that I've also yet to make that is in much the same spirit!
Issey Miyake springs to mind as a contemporary manifestation of the technique. And in fact there is an Issey Miyake for Vogue jacket (the one on the left) that I've also yet to make that is in much the same spirit!
