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...necessity of dressing the ladies of the French court, who were obliged always to appear in white and never to wear the same toilette twice. Worth even felt a heavy obligation to the French silkmaking industry. When crinolines became so enormous as to be dangerous to the wearer, Worth concocted the bustle as a way to use quantities of fabric without incarcerating his clients...
...made of silk and interlined, for warmth, with rustling handmade rag paper. All that captures the eye. But what holds the imagination are the shapes, the folds and the colors, the cascades of fabric in a skirt that uses 300 yards of cotton to move over the wearer like a light wind or that spills around her, when she sits, like a mountain lake. The gold glitters, but what seduces are the accents of color that the gold picks up and reflects, like the green fragments of beetle wings that peek out of a 19th century man's coat. Gharara...
...ways, each with its own social connotation. The knots at the waist of a courtesan's skirt could be so intricate that only she could undo them: fashion as a fail-safe device. A contemporary turban, worn by an ironmonger, shows in its coloration and style of wrapping the wearer's occupation, his residence and his marital status: fashion as calling card...
This adaptation of the traditional baseball batter's helmet has two cup holders mounted on top of the hat which connect to the wearer's mouth with surgical hose. Fill the styrafoam cups, connect the hose and drinking becomes a hands-off matter...
...shape frozen in time," but Miyake not only took from it a way of cutting and wrapping clothes and a means for construction of a sleeve that did not constrict, he used its central concept of the space between body and cloth as a way to let wearer and garment interact, to make from their respective shapes a whole new form...