Yes, Wonderful Things

A ramshackle place for mini-obsessions, fleeting interests and grand plans. Collected by a female Antipodean living in London and dabbling in the dark arts of book design while wedged somewhere between a small shelf in Tesco and a virtual shopping cart.
I finally finished reading Paul Poiret’s biography last night. I highly recommend it— a very fun and interesting insight in Paris and Couture Fashion at the turn of the century and some wise words in that way that only an ego-centric, pretentious albeit quite brilliant Frenchman can. This image above is a textile fragment from Poiret’s Atelier Martine—a revolutionary place at the time for high-fashion and luxury furnishings. Poiret believed that untrained art students would create unique and ‘true’ art work. He saw his role as ‘“…to stimulate students’ activity and taste without influencing them or criticising, so that the source of their inspirations should be kept pure and intact….” Some of the works from the school were later issued as textile designs under his Atelier Martine label. Very beautiful results which foresaw the future direction of textile design and indeed today looks to the jaundiced eye very much like Marimekko or a late Matisse print! image via FIDM Museum blog

I finally finished reading Paul Poiret’s biography last night. I highly recommend it— a very fun and interesting insight in Paris and Couture Fashion at the turn of the century and some wise words in that way that only an ego-centric, pretentious albeit quite brilliant Frenchman can.

This image above is a textile fragment from Poiret’s Atelier Martine—a revolutionary place at the time for high-fashion and luxury furnishings. Poiret believed that untrained art students would create unique and ‘true’ art work. He saw his role as ‘“…to stimulate students’ activity and taste without influencing them or criticising, so that the source of their inspirations should be kept pure and intact….” Some of the works from the school were later issued as textile designs under his Atelier Martine label. Very beautiful results which foresaw the future direction of textile design and indeed today looks to the jaundiced eye very much like Marimekko or a late Matisse print!

image via FIDM Museum blog

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