Fashion And Interior Design: Datums

The below two images are each excessively powerful and could have each been a post in themselves. The top image an interior by Sylvia Heisel. It's tape. This is an incredible fact just in itself. The bottom is Valentino. Photographed very beautifully. I paired them because they each represent the introduction of a secondary framework, matrix, or grid to their respective objects. One an interior. One a dress. I'm calling this a datum, or an abstract structure.

An interior is typically structured as floor, wall, and ceiling. But this interior changes that entirely by introducing a new datum or matrix like pattern which makes no differentiation between floor, wall, or ceiling. In fact I love how some of the lines are continuing around edges and corners. It's all over. Something like a Jackson Pollock. And in this sense, it creates a new datum by which we understand or take on a new understanding of the interior. Somehow you can't see floor, wall, and ceiling relationship anymore, can you. The same goes for the Valentino. It's an explicit introduction of a secondary geometrical structure, a tensile grid. Which is different from the body, the fabric, gravity. It redefines the the dress in terms of itself and thus frees it from it's traditional constraints. I love how above the waist the grid fits the body so carefully. Like a contour map of it. And then how it is allowed to become something new, different, and redefined within itself as it drifts down.

Thomas-Michael

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