After finishing up our self-guided tour at the Tower of London, my friend and I crossed the Tower Bridge--taking many pictures along the way of course--and walked along the riverbank to get to the Design Museum. I wanted to see the exhibition 'Drawing Fashion,' which was very informative of twentieth century fashion, for a show dedicated to illustrations. I never thought about the Great Depression's impact on the fashion industry and the demise of haute couture during that time period. Clothes were designed to be more casual and sportswear-oriented. Later, the popularity of extravagant styles in France reestablished the popularity of haute couture. The fashion illustrations demonstrated the designers' understanding of color and line to beautify the female body. Voluminous shapes and zigzagging lines in strategic areas formed the figures that were stylish for the time. The sketches in my book hardly capture the elegance of the illustrations.
While I sketched, I formed more ideas for my final project, but I realized it took a lot of reasoning to come up with designs. Did the illustrations on the walls translate well into three-dimensional forms, or did they stay as concepts? Bridging the elegance of the drawing to the elegance of physical materials is difficult, and it's something I know I need to work on. I have to keep in mind the 'mixture of fabric, form, movement, and light.'
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