The classic painting "Composition of Red, Yellow and Blue" by Dutch artist Mondrian has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the fashion circle.

The influence of the Dutch art master Mondrian has never been limited to any field. In the fashion circle closely related to art, Mondrian has already established his unshakable position and has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for designers. Either past or present.
This year marks the 150th birthday of Dutch artist Mondrian. The Hague Museum of Art in the Netherlands and the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, have launched Mondrian Moves and Mondrian Evolution to review the creativity that this master has brought to the art world and even the world. Influence. The three primary color squares of red, yellow and blue are set against a black and white grid. It seems that it is difficult for anyone to escape this simple and bright color maze.
His works not only lead the field of art, but also become representative masterpieces of abstract expressionism, minimalism and other art forms. It is not difficult to find his far-reaching influence in the design field. Rietveld's "Red and Blue Chair", which has been famous in the history of industrial design, is still one of the ace items of the furniture brand Cassina.

The Schroeder House in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is known as the livable Mondrian painting.

In the ever-changing fashion circle, it is a formula that can never go wrong. At the Prada Spring/Summer 2023 menswear show held not long ago, a close-fitting knitted short-sleeved top composed of red, yellow and blue and black lines reminded people of Mondrian's classic painting "The Composition of Red, Yellow and Blue" , its color block combination was completely deconstructed and used, becoming one of the hard-to-ignore memory points of the entire show.

Prada Spring/Summer 2023 Menswear Collection

And when it comes to the most well-known connection between Mondrian and the fashion circle, we have to mention the "Mondrian dress" that once defined the fashion circle. In 1965, Mr. Yves Saint Laurent caused an "earthquake" in the fashion world with a minimalist A-line skirt designed with elements of Mondrian's paintings. The extreme tension and aesthetics between lines and silhouettes make this dress unsurprisingly a unique color in fashion history.

In 1966 YSL launched the famous Mondrian dress

Since the birth of this dress, Mondrian has started a fashion journey that has not stopped until now. A number of fashion houses have looked for inspiration from Mondrian's perfectly divided color blocks, and various materials, shapes, and cut squares are endless in the fashion circle. As early as 1991, Italian designer and architect Francesco Maria Bandini followed the legendary Mondrian dress to create a series of structural fashions with elements of his paintings, with black lines running over the silhouette, becoming unexpected. fashion details.
Pulling the timeline a little closer, it's not the first time Prada creative director Miuccia Prada has incorporated Mondrian elements into her designs. In the Prada 2011 autumn and winter show, the checkered element in Mondrian's other masterpiece was presented in the ready-to-wear design. The checkered matrix composed of low saturation and the same color is supplemented by bright waist accessories or button details. The "sense of composition" of ready-to-wear is constantly deepened.

Prada Fall/Winter 2011 show

For Balmain's Spring/Summer 2015 collection, Mondrian's colors and structures are transformed into strips of leather, woven into striking waist-length dresses. Proenza Schouler also used red, yellow, blue and black as the main colors in the 2017 spring and summer fashion week, and used fashion to construct an ideal state similar to Mondrian.

Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2017 Collection (top) Balmain Spring/Summer 2015 Collection (bottom)

For Fall/Winter 2020 Fashion Week, Hermès once again brought Mondrian back to the public eye. The classic Mondrian color system runs through the audience, and the long color blocks are combined in different proportions. The color cylinders displayed in the white show have a similar shape to the bars in the equestrian obstacle course.

Hermès Fall/Winter 2020 Collection

It is an indisputable fact that the fashion circle loves Mondrian, but to investigate the reason, perhaps we must start with the artist Mondrian himself. Before drawing the iconic grid, Mondrian was constantly looking for the rhythm and style of the picture in his artistic career. His work "The Composition of Red, Yellow and Blue" is by no means an understatement like a child. It is a typical study, but the essence after continuous refinement through artistic thinking. As he said: "The essence of painting is to refine everything in the universe into perceptible shapes with colors and lines." Curator Carlo Verbek also believes that these seemingly static pictures of Mondrian are actually pursued instead. It is a dynamic sensory experience, a sense of excitement that triggers the spirit.

Just as the source of inspiration for fashion design comes from life, every year's popular elements reflect our present, and presenting a big show is a dramatic and fashionable refinement of daily life. To a certain extent, his ideas are almost the same as those of these fashion designs, or they are sufficiently compatible in spirit, which also makes Mondrian's color and space division layout easier to harvest from the fashion circle resonance.
At the same time, what we need to know is that the power of simplicity is far stronger than complexity. Because of the extreme, it is seen; because of the extreme, it is remembered. This is the realm that Mondrian and the fashion circle have always pursued.

Article Source:SoFigaro

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