Many times, the canons of beauty and fashion establish parameters for perfection and symmetry. However, this year, many Spring-summer 2009 collections are featuring an important change.
According to Vogue and other magazines, in the last months, fashion designers have opted for irregular and asymmetric shapes that, in spite of looking like improvised designs, come with nice details and have well-thought-out proportions.
This trend of strange and unusual garments is set by daring and avant-garde designers such as Albert Elbaz for Lanvin, Luella, Viktor & Rolf and Moschino.
They are fashion houses and designers that have assumed the role of researchers in their niche market by looking for new aesthetic approaches such as asymmetric shapes. Let’s take a look at some examples of this (click on the pictures to enlarge them).
June 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I love the green one. How I wish we’re allowed to dress like that in the hospital instead of uniforms like cherokee scrubs.