Christian Dior was a fabled fashion designer from France. He created designs that are timeless because his designs 'evolved into a bold, feminist, and powerful designs' (Phillips, 2022). Moreover, I am looking at his designs because I am going to create a 1950s fashion design for my project, which is a party dress that has elegance, femininity and minimalism; it is connected with when Dior's designs were famous in the 1950s. His designs showed what women usually wore in the 50s, which was simple and classic. However, I will make the dress design more contemporary than classic and use a monochromatic colour palette. However, the style or the model of the dress will be taken to inspire what the women back in the 50s wore. The reason is that, at present, the classic dress is seen as dull and less attractive; my design aims to make the person who wears the dress stand out with an admirable look.
This 'Evening Dress' is known as Dior extreme-feminine dress, but he added elements that contains in menswear, such as houndstooth, white cotton piqué, gray flannel tailoring, and more. The greatest accomplishment that Dior put in this dress is he could manage to put an elements of men's tuxedos, which he put a black wool with adding of black silk faille. We can see the fabrics of men's tuxedos, '
Visible in the asymmetrical wrapping of the pattern pieces is his interest in the drape of fabric.' (Metmuseum.org, 2022). Additionally, he put the fabric in asymmetrical way it makes the dress looks interesting and unique, so make the dress easily attract attention, even though he used minimum colour palette for this dress but make the people who wears it will look elegance and classy to attend an event.
Cygene Noir dress was created in two parts and the fabrics that he used for this dress is silk satin and velvet. In the top of the dress, Dior put complicated fastenings which the stiff-fitting top that stick to the skirt. However, the materials that he used for the skirt is integral silk velvet, that make the skirt weighty and full. And, the bow that attach in the dress is using same fabrics of silk velvet, it makes '
the appearance of a massive bow, which Dior described as the 'natural ornament' of a dress.' (Christian Dior and Bianchini-Férier, 1949). Moreover, this dress was made for autumn/winter season and an evening dress, which has same season trend and purpose as what I am going to make for my project.
Furthermore, this research makes me think of fabric that might be suitable for the dress I will design. In the text above, Dior used wool and silk velvet as fabrics that he put on the dress. Moreover, I considered combining those two fabrics for my fashion design. I will use these fabrics because wool and silk velvet fit for the autumn/winter season, which can make the person who wears them feel warm. Then, the silk velvet gives a touch of luxury that contributes elegance to the dress. Moreover, contrasting silk velvet and wool make the dress stand out because of the matte and shiny surfaces.
References:
Christian Dior and Bianchini-Férier (1949). Cygne Noir (Black Swan). [online] Victoria & Albert Museum. Available at: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117683/cygne-noir-black-swan-evening-dress-christian-dior/ [Accessed 13 Nov. 2023].
Phillips, H. (2022). There’s a Reason Everyone Still Loves Dior. [online] InStyle. Available at: https://www.instyle.com/fashion/history-of-dior.
Anon, (n.d.). Women’s Fashion in the 20th Century: 1950-1959 – MSU Museum. [online] Available at: https://museum.msu.edu/womens-fashion-in-the-20th-century-1950-1959/#:~:text=Yet%2C%20despite%20all%20of%20the [Accessed 13 Nov. 2023].
Metmuseum.org. (2022). Available at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83245.
You have some good points here but you should try write a little more robustly about the design considering how the bodice and the skirt were made and perhaps its history which I think comes from an ancient Greek 'Junon' and 'Venus'
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