Fashion & Architecture.
It is often mentioned that fashion is closely related to art, but I think that the interconnection between fashion and architecture is sometimes even stronger. To illustrate this, I picked five examples from the spring-collections of 2008 and five famous, exceptional buildings from the 20th and 21st century.
Balenciaga & Guggenheim-Museum Bilbao (by Frank O. Gehry)
Emilio Pucci & Finca Güell in Barcelona (by Antoni Gaudí)
Alexander McQueen & Sydney Opera House (by Jørn Utzon)
Anne Klein & Unité d’Habitation in Marseille (by Le Corbusier)
Akris & Holocaust Memorial Berlin (by Peter Eisenman)
Click on the photos to view bigger versions. All runway-shots are from Style.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 am
I love this! It’s so striking, to see the image of the architecture and the ‘08 fashions next to one another. Their resemblance to one another is undeniable. I’m particularly struck by the Emilio Pucci piece and the Finca Guell.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 am
Beautiful and love the comparison.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
Wow die Ähnlichkeit ist manchmal wirklich verblüffend :)
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Das ist ja ein wunderbarer Post. Ich hab mir ja in Barcelona Gaudís Werke angesehen und kürzlich auch darüber geschrieben, aber es nie so mit Mode verbunden!
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Great post!!! I love the way that everything influences everything! That´s the key to create. This was inspiring!
All the best for 2008!!
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
thanks to everyone! just as you, i was really surprised how many similiarities there were between architecture and fashion while doing some research for this post.
nina: gaudí hat so tolle gebäude errichtet, ich möchte mir die auch unbedingt mal in echt ansehen! ich war auch ganz überrascht, wie ähnlich sich das outfit und die finca sahen.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
toller post.
die beispiele sind wirklich total treffend!
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
den link wollte ich dir schon seit einer weile rüberschicken:
http://community.livejournal.com/ourbedrooms/815542.html?style=mine#cutid1
& ein gesundes neues jahr wünsche ich dir :*
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
danke!
das ist ja niedlich, mona! die püppchen. ♥
ich habe hier noch etwas kleines für dich liegen, muss ich dir endlich mal schicken…
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Great comparisons. I adore fashion and art combinations and the architecture is stunning too.
January 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
oha, da bin ich mal gespannt… (:
January 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
What great comparisons!
January 7th, 2008 at 12:10 am
I do fashion design at university, and one of our projects last year was to design a range inspired by a famous building! so you are right, they can be very closely linked!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
thanks to everyone!
ali: yes, you’re right. i own a book about fashion design in which they want you to be inspired by architecture as well. it’s really interesting.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I enjoyed the comparisons you made. There’s a book called “Crosscurrents”, by Tony and Claes Lewenhaupt which brings together Art . Fashion . Design in a similar fashion from 1890-1989.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
wow, echt tolle zusammenstellung. hast du das alles selber rausgesucht, oder gab es das schonmal irgendwo?
January 14th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
thank you, karen. maybe i’ll get my fingers on it some day… (:
dankeschön! freue mich sehr über deinen kommentar. nein, das habe ich alles selbst rausgesucht. (:
March 19th, 2009 at 7:31 am
I can’t believe how much innovation fashion has achieved after so many years. Great post by the way. :)
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hi! I noticed that my website isn’t appearing well just in case you want to read what I think about fashion being a fashion buff that I also am. Cheers!
April 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
This is great,i will really like to know more about the relationship between fashion and architecture in line with global,sustainability and social relationship since i will be writing on fashion and architecture in my dissertation.
Thanks for putting this in order.