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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ReplyDeleteStepanova y Popova designed more than 150 avant-garde prints and fabrics. The problem is that constructivists can work wonders in graphic design, architecture, and even textiles, but there's no evidence that Stepanova and Popova had any understanding of pattern making, textile weaving and its construction, or even fashion illustration. They weren't thinking about bodies—working bodies. Anyway, I still love the girlies.
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