As a young man Christian Dior loved homes and gardens, was obsessed with art and dreamt of being an architect. The hat featured in this post is a testament to his architectural skills and his fascination with 3-D design.
This 1950s velvet toque, worn by British Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and now part of the collection of the Fashion Museum in Bath, is characterised by a series of overlapping segments that create a helmet-like structure around the head.
I love this piece and thinking about it and about my previous post about millinery and architecture, I tried to find a modern building based on the same principles behind this hat.
I've found it in the digital renderings of the proposal by Portuguese firm OODA for the Busan Opera in South Korea (you can read more about the winners of the proposal here).
The key words to understand this elegantly sculpted multi-levelled building inspired by the harmonious forms of sea shells are flexibility, fluidity and flow.
The building is a sort of continuous undulating skin wrapping up the internal structure divided in various spaces ideal to accomodate different cultural activities. Guess digital renderings of architectural firms for tenders and competitions could be inspiring starting points for fashion designers, don't you think so?
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