Fine Art to Natural World – Fashion gets inspiration from all sources. However, the synergy between fashion designers and architects is unparalleled. Architecture produces inhabitable art while fashion gives us wearable art. Designers who dip their toe into the world of architectural fashion, use building blocks to form the garment. In the same manner that architects use concrete, glass, bricks etc to construct the building, designers make high fashion dresses. Fashion Industry giants like Gianfranco Ferré and the late Pierre Balmain have an architectural background. Balmain has even said “dressmaking is the architecture of movement” while incorporating architectural elements into his design. Also, read:

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Form Follows Fashion is the brainchild of Viktoria Lytra, the Greek Architect. It investigates the commonalities between architecture and fashion – to create shelter. While architecture creates shelter for one or more human bodies, fashion shelters one (most of the time). Both, however, focus on placing aesthetic as a common factor in the design of their product. This segregates them from the rest of the sciences and brings them into the realm of fine arts. According to Lytra, another connection between the two is the correlation to the field of art.  The inspiration from art can easily be witnessed in the designs that stand out and draw our attention to its artistic roots. N...