As a follow up to the previous post, let's focus today on structured and tailored garments characterised by a geometrical simplicity focusing on a jacket from Gianfranco Ferré's Spring/Summer 1982 collection.
The designs from this collection were inspired by luxury cruises from the '30s (a decade currently being celebrated by an exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York) and featured uniform-like skirt and trouser suits characterised by clear geometrical constructions. The jacket in this sketch was indeed based on a four canvas pattern and featured a white piqué rectangle on the front.
In an interview that appeared on The New York Times Magazine in April 1981, Ferré stated about his geometrical inspirations: "I'm mentally withdrawn into a little space inside me I call 'un quadrato perfetto', a perfect square. That's when I plan. What I always strive for is the perfect balance between simplicity and the need for something important. When I begin to design, I start first with the most elementary of designs, the way they do in the East, in India. After travelling to those countries, I have become totally influenced by their uncontaminated way of dressing. We are moving quickly now toward that kind of simplicity in which all a woman really needs is that shirt, that pant, a belt and a good watch."
Image credits for this post
Images Courtesy/Copyright Fondazione Gianfranco Ferré.
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