Kira is back !

In scoping out the fresh looks for spring and fall 2011, I came across the best news of all. Kira Plastinina, the Russian heiress, whose previous designs were sent back to Russia due to the economic recession in the U.S, is back. She showed her newly done and more mature designs at Lincoln Center's fall fashion week 2011. With a new brand named "LUBLU" (meaning "I love" in Russian,) she shows her sophistication as a young adult, and maturity in the fashion industry. Her designs are solely based off of inspiration from the 70's, 80's AND 90's. This time around, she's replacing those pink bubble skirts with "sophisticated silhouettes." Go Kira !

Take a look:

Turbans!

Photo Credit: Prada Fashion Week 2011

Hey ladies, as of fashion week for fall 2011, turbans are the biggest hit. According to nytimes.com, the turban has never really vanished, but it has been lying low. Recently, though, this dormant trend has quietly, but assertively, surfaced at fashion shows and on city streets.

I WANT ONE.

When you think of art what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it composition, the negative space, the way the pencil marks float across the blank white page, or is it the way the brush marks look on a brand- new canvas? If that can summarize what art is made up of, what is fashion? Fashion, like art, makes a statement. It's forever changing, timeless, and celebrates a set of rules that one can either follow, or not. Art and design became tied at the turn of the twentieth century. "Artists did not see the difference between creating an original work of art, such as a painting, and designing a textile pattern that would be reproduced many times over. Each was a valid creative act in their eyes." Through the first half of the twentieth century, fashion design echoed trends related to modern art. The developing aesthetic of modernism can be followed in the progression of fashion design from the heavily corseted silhouettes that reflected Art Nouveau interpretation of the female form early in the century to the first simplified silhouette that arrived before the First World War and continued into the 1920s, to the hip an body hugging hip dresses of the 1930s.

My name is Marissa. 18 years young, attending The Fashion Institute of Technology. As a young girl I had a dream of becoming a once famous, twice infamous, fashion designer. However, throughout my growing years, I allowed myself to appreciate art and found that with every picture I drew and every portrait I painted, I became emotionally and physically attached to the thought of being an artist. That's why I am a fine arts major. But, the dream of fashion is still intact. With a world full of opportunities, why can't I graduate to do both; fashion, and art? I created this blog to show proof that fashion and art do coexist. They are compatible in ways beyond how the internet, runway shows, and definitions portray them. Even though the world is fickle and life is tough, dreaming is the best thing a person can do. Betsey Johnson dreamed. Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock dreamed. And now, I dream. So can you.

Fashion Meets Art.

-Marissa Mule