Radical chic: #Avant-garde fashion design in the Soviet 1920s | The Charnel-House
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Reference was made in passing to official “messages” about waist-to-hip ratios passed down from the 1930s, but it seemed just leap out of the blue. Not entirely sure what she’s talking about.
It would be interesting to know what she made of the really avant-garde fashion experiments of the 1920s, however, with Varvara Stepanova’s colorful textile patterns, Liubov Popova’s sportswear, Vladimir Tatlin’s work outfits, and Vera Mukhina’s general wardrobe advice.
These designs were explicitly intended for mass production and consumption, clothing the masses. It was part of the fusion of art with life, designed to make the world more beautiful. Popova once reported:
No artistic success has given me such satisfaction as the sight of a peasant or a worker buying a length of material designed by me.
I’ve recently come across a number of images of avant-garde fashion design in the Soviet 1920s. Quite different from the chic styles preferred in bourgeois France at the time, outside of perhaps the modish cubism of Sophia Delaunay. So I’m posting them here. Enjoy.
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