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I'm going to back up for just a minute to Herve Leger. As the image in the post last week seemed to have struck a chord. It's also a nice way to slide into the Fall of 2011. Yes, it's actually coming rather quickly now. So the first two images are from the Spring Summer ad campaign from this year. I love the campaign imagery as well. And the proceeding four images are for the Fall. There's obviously the continuation of a theme at play. Which perhaps in a biased sense I really enjoy. A sense of architectural line and construction. The fall work includes grids, straps which I think of as tensile structures, I suppose you could say armatures being solidified corsets, and lastly platonic shapes. Throughout, the body seems to be treated as an as such condition. The way architects would think of a given site which is then challenged or which challenges a structural solution.

Thomas-Michael

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herveleger.com Summer 2011 Campaign Shot By Camilla Akrans And Styled By Laura Ferrara

Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. From the summer, I like the horizontal striation here. But also the literal linear dilineation in parts. The way the neck is outlined for instance. It reminds me of something purely being drawn on the body. Provocative and sexy.

herveleger.com Summer 2011 Campaign Shot By Camilla Akrans And Styled By Laura Ferrara

Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. Also from the summer. This is the image that was posted previously. In itself, I think it's a concept for an architectural structure or facade. A woven one. I love how it seems as a whole made out of an assemblage or weaving together of parts rather than a solid fabric which is then subtracted from, or cut out.

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Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. Into the fall now. You can see how the horizontality and continuation of the straps is coming through. A dominant sense of construction.

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Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. The grid.

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Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. This one is really tensile looking. I love how it seems as though it's pulling itself together from different respective angles on the body.

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Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. Something of a physical armature. The corset is a starting point for a larger structure. And integrated really beautifully with the softer fabric. Then of course, the neck again. I love how it feels as though the whole thing is hanging from that neck strap.

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Fashion, Architectural Lines And Construction In Herve Leger, Summer Into Fall 2011. And lastly the presense of platonic shapes. A really minimal and definitive bounding box type of shape. It's very refined and beautifully proportioned.

Akin to the post on lace a month or so back Fashion And Architecture, Lace, today is all about woven. It always starts with the fashion. Maybe I should try it the other way around one day.

It's interesting how these two disciplines relate to each other. As in my view, the ultimate goal of architecture to imitate the architecture of the body itself. Thus I always love looking at these similarities between the way the body and the building are being addressed. Or, dressed that is.

Thomas-Michael