Fashion Inspired by architecture from classic to modern era.

1. Architectural Inspirations
In
Fashion Design
By: Furqaan Afzal

2. What is an Architectural- Fashion?
•Fabrics as a building materials, creating both hard and round lines.
•Oversize proportions, exaggerated angles
•Strong silhouettes with emphasis on structure, shape and form.
•Major pleats, folds, pinning, layering, surface texture and threedimensional designs.
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3. Old-school masters
•Pierre Balmain (1914-82) declared, “dressmaking is the architecture of
movement,” believing “nothing is more important in a dress than its
construction.”
•With his structured approach to design, Gianfranco Ferré (1944-2007) was
known as “the architect of fashion.”
• Not uncoincidentally, both Balmain and Ferré held degrees in architecture.

4. Fashion is Architecture
Architecture and fashion have a lot in common, both, designer and architect
use geometry to generate forms, they create structure, design lines and
shapes.
• As Coco Chanel said: “Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of
proportion.”
• That fashion and architecture have a great deal in common may be
surprising given the obvious differences between the two.
• Fashion can often be ephemeral and superficial, and uses soft, fluid
materials; whereas architecture is considered monumental and
permanent, and uses strong, rigid materials.
• Regardless of differences in size, scale, and materials, the point of origin
for both fashion design and architecture is the human body both
practices protect and shelter us, while providing a means to express our
identities whether personal, political, religious, or cultural.”

5. on his fall collection: “Walking to work each day between
Chelsea and the Meatpacking District I get to enjoy all sorts
of views of Frank Gehry’s building, from which I got a lot of
the impetus for this collection.”
(Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz) has also channeled Gehry’s soft lines,
•Last October, the 27-year-old avant-garde designer Gareth Pugh
presented a collection of armor like outfits — “a modern warrior,” he
called the aesthetic — bringing engineered clothing to new heights.
•The current designers, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto
Rimondi, are carrying the label’s lineage into the future, with “the
introduction of new, more fluid fabrics that enable the hard architectural
shapes to become softer and more feminine.”
•The Swedish designer Sandra Backlund doesn’t look at
architecture for direct inspiration, but admits, “I am very
fascinated by all the ways you can highlight, distort and
transform the natural silhouette with clothes and

6. Nordpark Railway Station, Austria

7. L’Oreal
Office
Building, St
ockholm, S
weden

8. National Centre for the Performing Arts (The Egg, China)

9. Antonium (Brussels, Belgium)

10. Colorful Composition of Windows,
Venezuela

11. A magnificent display of Gothic
Architecture, germany

12. Gothic Architecture, central doorway

13. Monumental Architecture

14. Vintage Spiral Staircase

15. Worlds Most Futuristic
City
The Superstar was designed by
Chinese architects. “A Mobile
China Town” with shopping
malls, Chinese food restaurants,
and other cultural exhibitions.
The Superstar will provide
housing for 15,000 inhabitants
who will enjoy health and sports
facilities, drinking water lakes,
and a “digital cemetery” among
others.

16. Argentina

17. South American Neighborhood

18. Worlds Tallest Sky-Scrappers

19. A flowing mesh dress, evokes the organic dynamism of her world-famous
buildings, particularly the Thyssen Krupp headquarters in Germany.

20. “Lara Miller” creates a tea-dyed frock out of newspaper, the Chicago
designer didn’t have to look far for inspiration. The “post-architectural”
skyscraper by award-winning architect

21. “Solomonoff” based her designs on the structural roof

22. Unlike actual bridges, however, the pump is wearable. Lined with a
patent-leather inner sole, the shoe includes a coating of synthetic
rubber on the bottom for traction.

23. New Designer Mikio Sakabe , incorporated of architectural aesthetics
into fashion, integrated with the urban architecture.

24. Architectural- Inspired designs by D&G, and
Bottega Venetta

25. Hussien Chalayan, British –turkish designer

26. Fashion VS Architecture
An orange Lanvin dress from Spring 2008 and
Frank Gehry’s Hotel, Opera House, Sydney

27. Architectural Fashion
Sir Norman Foster’s Hearst building, San Francisco

28. Latest designs of summer 2012 A-line skirt, Louis Vuitton

29. Brocade –Stella McCartney, New National
Library, Kazakhstan

30. Parada- Grafitti- Café, Bulgaria

31. Monochrome Prints- Versace, Town Hall ,Spain

32. Wiggle – Lanvin, The Cloud- International Business
Center, Korea

33. Sydney Opera

34. LA BOCA

35. GALATA TOWER, Istanbul- Turkey

36. KONGRESSHALLE, Germany- Berlin

37. TAJ MAHAL, A Tribute to Beauty

38. Architecture is making its presence felt in cutting-edge fashion.
Although the relationship between architecture and fashion was
recognized more than a century ago, the connection between them has
rarely been explored by historians, designers or practicing architects.
The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the
contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in
considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and
materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey
Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind.
As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakubo to
Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architecture’s role in the
formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge.

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