As part of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s partner program with the UNIQLO brand, specialist in the history of fashion and design Ilektra Kanestri will deliver a lecture on abstract art and its influence on the fashion industry.
Abstract, or non-figurative art is one of the brightest, most diversified and represented art movements that developed throughout the entire twentieth century. Abstraction enhanced twentieth- and twenty-first-century fashion with new looks and instigated the invention of new drawing techniques used on textiles. Its traditions continue to impact significantly the shaping of the aesthetic language of contemporary fashion.
The audience will be introduced to the samples of clothes and fabrics created in the 1910s and 1920s by Sonia Delaunay, as well as with the signature Missoni style inspired by the French artist; will learn about the connection between the artist Josef Albers and the Hermès Editeur collection; and how Jackson Pollock’s colored “cobweb” is used in contemporary fashion design.
