Lush, Embellished Fabric from Paris
October 2, 2009 by Chloe Findlay-Harder
Filed under Home & Living
The Spring and Summer 2010 runway shows have gone to Paris for their fashion week – the last of the “big four” fashion weeks.
I always find it incredibly inspiring to see what the best and brightest minds in fashion are doing to fabric. How many ways can you be creative with a bolt of fabric?
Let’s see…
You can distress it, embroider, embellish, applique, fold, tuck, stitch and fray – just to start!
Check out some of the amazing ways the designers have altered fabric for their runway shows:
Lanvin covered every inch of their clothing with hand-stitched beads, sequins and embellishments. I can’t image how many hours of work are in that one outfit – that’s a whole lot of skilled seamstresses all working for many, many hours!
This jacket from Issey Miyake isn’t printed, or even quilted – those blocks of color have all been finished and then woven together – and then stitched into a garment.
Japanese designer Atsuro Tayama has stitched layers of fabric together, and then roughly slashed them apart to create the layer details on this dress.
images: Zuma Press
