History Of Fashion: White Dress During Classicism

History of Fashion Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation History of Fashion There has been a significant change in fashion owing to the changing times in professional worlds. The inception of technological innovations and inventions have overseen the development of different types of fashion designs. Imperatively, there has been a significant development in the visual and performing arts with changes that have characterized the fashion industry. This research paper aims at discussing the history of fashion with an inept reference to the white dress and how it influenced individuals’ sense of fashion during the classicism period. More so, a detailed discussion of the designer of the white dress, Vionnet Madeleine will be given consideration as well as her immense contribution in influencing fashion will be keenly assessed.
Thesis statement Fashion has undergone credible evolution with an immense credit to designer Vionnet Madeleine for coming up with the white dress design. Topic Sentence One Vionnet Madeleine is a designer in the fashion industry who had offered an immense contribution in influencing the fashion industry. She is credited with the excellent encapsulation of her designs in meeting the significance of classicism influence on the development of fashion. Her fashionable dress designs came into existence during the interwar period, which has been offered diverse subversive interpretations which have inadvertently undermined a steadfast comprehension of what entails a classicized design as time-bound, democratic and non-blemished. Support Sentences Support Sentence One Madeleine Vionnet's training at a number of couture houses in both London and Paris taught her to favor the natural body as the guiding motif in any design and led her to develop her well-documented technique of draping specially woven double width fabric onto an 80cm high manikin (Arnold, 2009). This implies that Madeleine Vionnet was well trained in designing fashion. She developed a radical and basic concept of dressmaking that focussed on the body of an individual. Despite having undergone quality training in fashion, Madeleine was able to watch a substantial number of couture houses by pioneers of the fashion industry (Wilson et al., 2013). For instance, Madeleine watched a couture house that was graced by maitress Mme Gerbe who had an exemplary ability in perfecting designs for her clients as well as adapting the designs to the preferences of each client. Maistress Gerbe formed an inspiration and role model to Madeleine quest for fashion. Support Sentence Two At Doucet, where she moved in 1907 she was to display her avant-garde view of fashion, becoming part of the triumvirate of couturiers, along with Chanel and Poiret, who were to construct a new form of fashion and beauty that heralded the concerns of the modern era. By discarding the corset and quite literally stripping away the superfluities of fashion and contemporary notions of respectability. Vionnet turned out to be among the fashion revolutionists, inspiring another type of feminine that talked about flexibility, experimentation, and freedom (Arnold, 2009). For Vionnet, the new soul was connected to a look for immaculateness of frame and artistic articulation that rose, in any event to a limited extent, from an exhaustive investigation of the classical outline (Steele, 2017). Vionnet is credited with revolutionizing the fashion industry. Her interests in evoking feminine ideas that addressed freedom and independence marked the genesis of classical design fashions. She worked in collaboration with other designers like Chanel and Poiret who helped her grow in the fashion industry. Support Sentence Three Vionnet's work expressed the problems of femininity in a period of such rapid change and upheaval. As gender roles altered under the impact of the First World, women needed to renegotiate their relationship to public spacesНѕ no longer closeted, literally within the domestic sphere, or metaphorically by restrictive clothing or rigid moral codes, younger women sought means to signal this change (Arnold, 2009). Vionnet was addressing the issue of gender disparity through fashion. She was working towards women empowerment voice through a given dress code. She changes the perspective of the disliked black cotton dress in the house of Doucet that people wore in-house couture (Ewing, 2014). Through the zeal and passion that Vionnet had in fashion, she was a stepping stone to empowering women. She designed the white dress for women, which deemed women as pure and moral. She inadvertently foregrounded women in her fashion designs. Topic sentence Two Vionnet’s design style and most famous design “Fortuny” was a pro-feminist ideal dress for women as opposed to Gr's's work that was innovative in the use of fabric to come up with decent dresses. Vionnet's design dubbed fortuny was an experimentation of both the fabric and its relationship to the female body. She used fortuny to advocate for the rights of her female workforce. Noteworthy, most designs by Vionnet were not shown to clients by mainly the men workforce as they deemed it indecent. Support Sentences Support Sentence One Vionnet's work expressed the problems of femininity in a period of such rapid change and upheaval. As gender roles altered under the impact of the First World, women needed to renegotiate their relationship to public spacesНѕ no longer cl...