Italian-born, Paris-based designer Elsa Schiaparelli (aka Coco Chanel's arch-nemesis) was so obsessed with jaw-dropping fashion that she made "shocking pink" her signature colour from the 30s onwards. They were like: 'What is this?' It didn't read for American women at this time who just wanted to look pretty." 1930s: Schiaparelli's shocking surreal designs She caused the kind of media ruckus that money can't buy, says Brayshaw: "On an American tour in 1913/1914, the Americans panned. While Deslys didn't walk any runways, she did take these avant-garde designs, influenced by cubism, futurism, and modernism, to theatres around the world while on tour. ( Supplied: European Film Star Postcards) "Stage productions were a way in which the latest fashions were disseminated in a spectacle," says Brayshaw. They included a cloak made from an entire leopard skin. Paquin was among a number of "haute couturiers were mixing with the Parisian artistic avant-garde and creating new ways of seeing and being in the world," Brayshaw says.ĭeslys's gowns, designed by French designer and fashion illustrator Etienne Drian for Paquin, were touted as "liable to create much discussion". In the 1910s, French dance hall star and international celebrity Gaby Deslys collaborated with Parisian haute couture house Jeanne Paquin on a series of so-called "Gaby gowns". 1910s: Gaby Deslys takes outrageous designs on tour Jenner's runway-adjacent moment is just the latest example in a long history of spectacle on and around the runway shocking moments that speak to larger changes in politics, society, art and technology. View this year's SNR website below, or watch videos from previous SNR fashion shows.But high fashion can also be a way to talk about contemporary issues, says Dr Emily Brayshaw, a theatre costume designer and lecturer in design and fashion history at the University of Technology Sydney.įor instance, the Schiaparelli lion's head was made from synthetic materials: " this high-fashion history of luxury and fur, but really translates it in a wholly contemporary way … it's getting us to question our relationship to animals and the environment," Brayshaw told ABC Arts. We look at our influence through the spheres of the Marist College, Hudson Valley, New York, the East Coast, the nation, and lastly, the world. SNR fulfills an identity extending beyond fashion and continues to evolve as a laboratory of innovation. The Silver Needle Runway (SNR) fosters a positive and encouraging community that challenges its peers in a professional setting, uplifting the next generation of leaders in fashion and beyond. The presentation appropriately closes out the academic year with a community-wide celebration of the growth and achievements of the preceding months. Produced entirely by students of the School of Communications and the Arts, the runway features garments designed and realized by our talented senior Fashion Design students in a professional runway setting. ![]() ![]() Since 1984, the show has continued to heighten levels of expertise, professionalism, and creativity. The Silver Needle Runway is the largest event production presented by Marist College.
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