Shocking Pink

Kim Smith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:43:21 +0000

Blooming in my office today and, with it’s “shocking pink” color and fabulous fragrance, making work all that much more pleasant.

Epiphyllum

Shocking pink was fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s (1890- 19730) signature color and she described it as “life-giving, like all the light and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West.”

Marcel Vertes 1940 watercolor ad for Schiaparelli’s Shocking perfume, which shows a bottle of Shocking reclining in a pink hammock with a floating couple above and Cupid below.

Marcel Vertes and Elsa Schiaparelli jointly won the British Academy Film award in 1952 for Best Costume Design for the original Moulin Rouge film, about the life and times of artist Toulouse-Lautrec.

THE BONE COLLECTOR-GIVENCHY'S SPINAL INSPIRATIONS

theschereport — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:00:30 +0000

There is a new mood in the making and Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy beautifully displayed this new skeletal inspiration with the Couture collection he showed this week in Paris. Inspired by Frida Kahlo and her obsession with death, skeletons and her spinal cord problems, Riccardo designed white Chantilly lace and double silk duchesse satin gowns he viewed as “a romantic way to see death”. The intricately ornamented dresses were shown in white and gold and had all of his signatures: dégradé, lace, and fringe-work. The dominant theme was the human anatomy with column dresses appliqued in crystals and pearls to mock the frame of the skeleton, zipper pulls were made of little bones, and a porcelain belt mimicked a spinal column.

Givenchy's Fall 2010 Couture

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Baboon fur and Chantilly lace

Givenchy Fall 2010 Couture

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In her first collaboration with Surrealist painter Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli created a black crepe dress with padding underneath that was inspired by the human body.

Schiaparelli's Skeleton dress

Designer’s have been referencing the human anatomy for years, starting with Elsa Schiaparelli’s Skeleton dress she created in her Circus collection of 1938.

Dsquared’s macabre spinal heel has been getting attention on the streets of Paris:

image via Jak&Jil

image via Sea of Shoes

Jewelry designer Shaun Leane created his Vertebrae wrist cuff for Showstudio’s Inside/Out exhibition shop. The cuff resembles the skeletal format making four separate vertebrae made of silver and lined in leather.

Image via Showstudio.com

Available for purchase at Showstudio.com

The skeleton motif has been popping up the past several seasons by many designers including Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Rodarte.

Alexander McQueen's skeleton leggings

Leggings can currently be bought on Polyvore’s ecommerce site here for $546.

Christian Lacroix's ribcage neckpiece via The Stylenotebook

Even tshirt companies are channeling the spine using knots and slashing to look like bones.

Look for more skeleton references to come as this trend begins to emerge.

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Shocking Pink

THE BONE COLLECTOR-GIVENCHY'S SPINAL INSPIRATIONS