COLLECTION 7: INSPIRATION
When designing a new collection, there are a tremendous number of factors to consider, from silhouettes and textiles, to storytelling and models; all of which are informed by the collection's inspiration. The same may be said of a collection's photography and marketing campaign. Below, Frances Bleviss, former Regional Director for Eastern Canada, National Docent Symposium Council, discusses the inspiration behind Collection 7.
When one looks at the sumptuous colours of this collection, it’s not a leap to think of Christian Dior’s childhood summer home, a pale pink house by the sea in Granville, a small town on the northern coast of Normandy, in France.
A visit there is unforgettable: sitting at a table outdoors in the sun, surrounded by roses in many hues and wildly colourful gardens planted by Dior’s mother.
A visit there is unforgettable: sitting at a table outdoors in the sun, surrounded by roses in many hues and wildly colourful gardens planted by Dior’s mother.
Most enchanting of all is the scent and gentle hues of the rose arbor covered with gorgeously blown roses, next to a stone wall overlooking the deep blue sea.
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Roses at Dior's home at Granville. Photography: F. Bleviss
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Even the exhibition of Dior designs for Princess Grace of Monaco in the house/museum is enchanting. Dior’s insistence on brilliant tailoring and magnificent gauzy fabrics for summer ballgowns is clear from the collection.
Like Dior, Lisa Aviva chooses the finest semi-transparent fabrics for the Summer collection of supremely elegant, flowing and comfortable dresses, and skirt of two layers, and tops with simple lines. It all looks so wearable!
Like Dior, Lisa Aviva chooses the finest semi-transparent fabrics for the Summer collection of supremely elegant, flowing and comfortable dresses, and skirt of two layers, and tops with simple lines. It all looks so wearable!
The work of Jean Arp, at the Centre Pompidou.
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The other influence evident in Lisa Aviva’s connection to the colours and shapes found in Nature is the sculpture of Jean Arp, a French sculptor, often spoken of as the most significant European sculptor of the first half of the twentieth century. Deeply rooted in the natural world, Arp’s forms of the 1950s and 1960s are marked by voluptuous forms simply and sinuously expressed in elegant curves.
In fact, Arp’s sculptures would complement brilliantly the lush gardens at Granville. And how thrilling it would be to drink in all the colour of those gardens, dressed in Lisa Aviva! |
Frances Bleviss, Former Regional Director, Eastern Canada, National Docent Symposium Council
