It is quite funny sometimes to read about a collection being inspired by one artist or art movement, but evoking at the same time others. This was the case with Novis's Spring/Summer 2015, recently showcased during New York Fashion Week.
The brand's founder and designer Jordana Warmflash is a passionate art fan and moved from Tom Wesselmann's works for this collection.
It was easy to spot in her designs – especially in the jacquards knits made with Cariaggi yarns and dresses with fitted bustiers – a Pop Art palette derived from Wesselmann's art.
Yet the same palette entered the column gowns, long skirts and A-line mini-dresses with a print of colourful tiles framing various objects or colourful graphic motifs (some of them reminiscent of Matisse's cut-outs).
These designs called to mind fashionable pieces from the past such as this 1957 Italian shirt inspired by Georges Braque (as seen in a previous post about the artist).
Both Novis' designs and the 1957 shirt are based on similar principles – simultaneous perspective and fragmentation and both feature a geometric box-like landscape populated with everyday objects.
French art critic Louis Vauxcelles employed the definition Cubism, or "bizarre cubiques" after seeing a picture by Braque in 1908 and describing it as "full of little cubes". Looks like cubes – or rather tiles – will be fashionable again come the Spring 2015 season…
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