As Tate Modern open their show celebrating Sonia Delaunay, we look at her often-forgotten work within fashion
Sonia Delaunay est difficile à qualifier tant elle expérimente ses recherches plastiques dans de multiples domaines dès les années 1910. Avec Robert Delaunay, le couple d’artistes s’engage dans le simultanisme - une voie lumineuse qu’elle poursuivra et réinventera seule après le décès de son mari.
Two models wearing fur coats designed by Sonia Delaunay, with the car belonging to the journalist Kaplan and painted after one of Sonia Delaunay’s fabrics c.1925 Courtesy of Bibliothèque...
Artist and textile designer Sonia Delaunay's sketchbook (c.1920s) #womensart
For some time, i was highly influenced by Sonia Delaunay's textile designs. Luckily for me, i found my own way after a while, but her work's still an enormous refreshment when i feel the need of charging up again. Her art radiates so much vitality and joy that it makes me happy, just by looking at it. Couldn't choose, so i posted a lot:) Presentation at the Claridge Hotel, 1924 The poet René Crevel and the short story writer Madame X (Jacqueline Chaumont) in costumes for Tzara's 'Le Coeur à Gaz', 1923 Sonia, in a Chanel suit and wearing a scarf of her own design, in front of various pictures and drawings, around 1970. Are you charged up again? Anyway, i am, :)
As Tate Modern open their show celebrating Sonia Delaunay, we look at her often-forgotten work within fashion
Painter, designer, tireless tango-dancer and coat-maker to the stars, Sonia Delaunay tore through the worlds of art and fashion like a whirlwind
Montage of textiles designs. All images from Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay. In March, Jay and I went to Manhattan to view a super exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/color-moves In the "roaring twenties", Delaunay had her own fashion house. Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, on view until June 19, 2011, is an expansive survey of the work of Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) with an emphasis on her textile designs. The exhibit is upstairs from a show of Van Cleef and Arpel jewelry, a shameless display of over-the-top-bling for the rich and famous. So, security was tight throughout the building, and photography was not allowed. The images in this blog entry were scanned from the eponymous exhibit catalog. More images can also be seen in the excellent review of the show by NYT reporter Roberta Smith: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/sonia-delaunay-show-at-cooper-hewitt-review.html Top row: sketches. Bottom row, right: sketch made into repeating fabric design. Bottom row, left: design card, with colorways. Fabric sample. Following the Depression, Delaunay closed her fashion house but developed a special relationship with the fashion-forward Metz Department Store in Amsterdam, selling textile designs for their exclusive use. Importantly, both Delaunay’s sketchbooks and Metz Company documents survive, allowing us to see the process of apparel fabric production from artist’s sketch to finished fabric. Top: Design card with colorways. Bottom: master print. The translation of sketch to yardage is a multi-step affair, including fine-tuning the original motif, creating the print repeat, and keying the gouache sketch palette to fabric inks. Somehow, in the hands of an obviously sympathetic textile manufacturer, these steps improved upon Delaunay’ s delightful initial sketches, with the end result being scrolls of pattern that happen to be bolts of fabric. Snippets of fabric samples, with color chips and notes. As Roberta Smith states in her review, the show …may change forever the way you look at dry goods. I know that, if these designs were in fabric stores today, I would be adding them to my fabric stash. Large fabric sample. Catalog: ISBN 978-0-910503-84-6
via Grabink Sonia Delaunay Shawl Via Spaightwood Galleries I love this! Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics by Jacq...
Pionnière (1885-1979), Sonia Delaunay peint, elle donne dans les arts appliqués, elle initie la mode… S’étonnerait-on de cette diversité ? Or, d’autres hommes célèbres : Matisse, Miró, Picasso ont aussi créé en dehors de la peinture. Partie d’Ukraine, elle sillonne l’Europe et rencontre beaucoup d’artistes. Vraie avant-gardiste et muse de la féminité artistique, elle n’est que talents.
As Tate Modern open their show celebrating Sonia Delaunay, we look at her often-forgotten work within fashion
The Concise Illustrated History of 1920s Fashion and Style for Women. The trends, silhouettes, dresses, shoes, hats, hairstyles and makeup looks
Scanned from the book "Art Deco 1910-1939", edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood. Sonia Delauney (Russian). Cotton, wool and silk. Musée de la Moda et du Textile, Paris, Collection of the Union Française des Arts du Costume. Photo: Laurent Sully Jaulmes. Art Deco
'Sonia Delaunay' viscose crop cardigan with button closure, long cuffed sleeves. Composition: 97% viscose 2% polyamide 1% elastane
