New art movement is the end of the 19th century and the rise of design movement in Europe, first produced in Britain, because the designers face art and crafts declining so determined to create a new design style, after spread to Austria, Germany, Belgium, Spain and other European regions, its design scope is very wide, covering architecture, indoor, products, clothing, graphic, jewelry, and many other fields.
Characteristics of the Art New Art movement:
① flow of decorative curve shape
② deliberately use asymmetric decoration
③ color more choose soft light red, lavender, tender green and other cream
④ forms and patterns all attach great importance to the symbolic
⑤ material combination and diverse, including silk, swan practice, gems, etc
Women's wear style during the art movement period
In 1890 is women's important from classical style to modern style of the transition period of transition, influenced by the art nouveau movement, this period of representative style for s shape, mainly rely on the bra chest high lift, the waist thin, prominent plump hips, skirt naturally open the shape of the horn, the side looks like a big "s".
Fig 1. 1886 -1887 bustle dresses
Fig 2. 1898 fashion
Gore skirt is one of the important features of the S-shaped shape.With a few pieces of triangular cloth longitudinal clip around the hem of the equal interval insertion, thus increasing the range of the pendulum, constitute a beautiful trumpet shape, and the skirt long to the ground.
Fig 3. 1940 Striped Skirt and Gored Skirt
British designer Charles Frederick worth (1825-1895) promoted humble sewing techniques to "couture", which was originally used to describe the height of high-quality sewing techniques.With Worth marketing, the term slowly evolved into couture, and Worth became the first couture store owner.
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