There would not be Fashion, without the figure, in fashion however I have discovered there are ways of manipulating the figure to be more pleasing to the eye. These examples below are shown through cutting the shape of the dress in a certain way or optical illusion. Creating the illusion that someone is slimmer then they actually are by using light and dark tones.
As shown below the Stella McCartney dress which is cut in a certain way to give the perfect hour glass figure with a darker colour and then a use a skin colour in between.
Here however she has done a similar thing with cut making different shapes which compliment the female form. However in the transparent parts she has added dark dots which brings a different dimensions to the outfit. It reminds me a bit of the image I used earlier of the model on the sofa in the nude the light was hitting her figure in dot like shapes.
Optical illusion dress by Alexander McQueen the pattern on the dress reminded me of the artist I saw in St Ives Bridget Riley. The dress creates a contour effect around the figure but is darker at the edges and slowly gets lighter to create the illusion of a slimmer frame.
Some examples of Bridget Riley's work even looking at it slightly makes me feel dizzy. She is using line to manipulate the viewers perception of the piece. She has even looked at the female figure herself as seen below she has created the figure through weaving lines into one another. It is simple but very effect possibly something I could use in my sample process or even with drawing.
This season there is a monochrome theme in some designers collections which use line to contour the body in different ways. The examples I am showing are Marc Jacob and Victoria Beckham.
Marc Jacob
Victoria Beckham
