Drawing Fashion Exhibition

I went to the Drawing Fashion exhibition at the Design Museum in London. It was a really inspiring exhibition that had been put together over 30 years by collector Joelle Chariau. It was displaying illustrations from some of the greatest work from 16 fashion artists from the 1910’s and 1920’s up to present day, shown in chronological order in groups of the artists of their works time. It shows how the drawings are coming to be seen increasingly as art. The minimalistic way they showed the art was simple yet effective displaying the art work on curved white translucent walls which added a beautiful clean light to the artwork too, which helped it to stand out. Music, photos and movie clips were there alongside the illustrations to show cultural and social changes of the century which I think is key and adds more helping you get a broader idea and understanding of the work.
I was really interested to see each illustrators take on fashion drawing and how different each fashion artists work was from one another. I loved the originality from each piece and seeing them all together, contrasting made a great contrast and made it effective.

Antonio Lopez 1967
Lopez was clearly inspired by the Op Art illusion and movement popular in the 1960’s. He used the technique in this stunning illustration which reflects fashion and art of that time.

Some of Erte’s work was shown at the exhibition. These are some of my favourite pieces of his art showing a glamourous and sophisticated ideal life of the 1920’s lady. I love his Art Deco style and use of colour contrast.  I also like how he uses delicate figures with big lavish outfits which shows his heart for fashion. Amazing work.