Constructivism In Fashion

Several artists tried to work with clothes design with varying success: Varvara Stepanova designed dresses with bright, geometric patterns that were mass-produced, although workers' overalls by Tatlin and Rodchenko never achieved this and remained prototypes. The painter and designer Lyubov Popova designed a kind of Constructivist flapper dress before her early death in 1924, the plans for which were published in the journal LEF. In these works Constructivists showed a willingness to involve themselves in fashion and the mass market, which they tried to balance with their Communist beliefs.

(Stepanova's Constructivist dress, 1924)

(Design for a Window Display, 1924, Lyubov Popova)

(Dress design, 1923-24, Lyubov Popova)

(Rodchenko, Design for Working Clothes, 1922)

(Dress design, 1923-24, Lyubov Popova)

(Dress design, 1923-24, Lyubov Popova)

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