Since this has been a print week and Coutorture has photos available from Oscar’s Resort ’09 collection, and Dior Cruise ’09 too, I thought we’d take a look at some prints, Fashion Lab-style.
Compare the use of scale in these first two. Who is flattered and who is just plain overwhelmed?
In this second set, in addition to scale, we can study line movement and especially direction. (Also note that the deep, square neckline, which is visually in balance, acts kind of as a solid to separate the print from the face.)
Just for fun, here’s thumbnails of some more pictures.
Which is your favorite look? That last picture is me. 😉
In the first set of pictures, I think the 2nd woman with the smaller print is a more attractive dress. But I have to ask if the 1st woman had the dark hair and olive skin tone, would the first dress have looked better?
In the 2nd set of pictures, I like the first dress. I don’t like the 2nd dress because it’s so see-through and I, also, prefer the squared neckline on the first dress.
It looks like the belted A-line silhouette is back? Sort of a ’60’s Jackie Kennedy look? I love the first dress in the thumbnails and the necklace really makes it. I don’t know if I would have liked the dress nearly as much with a plain neckline. And I love, love, love the black evening gown with it’s full skirt. Glad to see those full, flowly, feminine, ballerina type, hoopskirt wannabes back! Very feminine. Dresses that look like they were poured over you can only look good on a small percentage of the female population because they will show every bump and wrinkle. They can look fantastic if you have the body for it. They look like “Come here, big boy.” (Say that with a Mae West accent.) But these full skirted dresses are fun/flirty not SEX and they can hide some imperfections. So chic, feminine and yet, give grace to some of us who no longer have the lean, youthful figure any more. I liked what he did to the hemline on that one too.
I ‘need’ #2 in the 2nd set (to minimize the bottom half:-)
The mixed print below it really demonstrates your point on mixing prints a couple of days ago.
Sharon, I agree with you about both sets of dresses and, yes, the larger print would have looked better on a model with black hair, larger features, and any kind of skin color that works well with red. Another thing I dislike about the second of the turquoise dresses is how the small vertical print clashes with the model’s features. It would have looked better on the other model.
I agree with you about lady-like dresses. And I think that even when they aren’t “in style” they look good and people respond well to them, so we should wear them anyway. Which makes me want to sew (something other than set-pieces, which is what I’m currently working on).
Mom, do you think the larger print on bottom makes her look smaller?
I can’t tell whether the print or the white make the difference; but her upper body seems diminished – the triangle effect? This might have been reduced by increasing the size of the piping on the top and/or showing more shoulder.