Body shape and fabric go hand in hand when trying to achieve a smoother and more pleasing silhouette. Of course, it can take some trial and error, but you can save your tears for another day when you know what materials work best with specific body features. From supportive silks and knits to textured fabrics and thick cottons, here are the most flattering materials for every body type.
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When it comes to pushing fashion into the future, no one did it quite like Pierre Cardin. This week’s Pink Thing is a striking Pink Silk Jersey Jumpsuit from 2008, a perfect example of the late designer’s lifelong devotion to bold form, saturated color, and theatrical flair. With its sweeping batwing sleeves, tapered legs, and shimmering black fringe at the neckline and cuffs, this jumpsuit transforms the body into a living sculpture.
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This Dolce & Gabbana silk dress from Spring 2017 celebrates pasta as an internationally recognized symbol of Italian identity. Food motives have been part of Dolce & Gabbana’s design since the 1990s. Most recently, the pair have made use of produce, gelato, and cannoli prints, reinforcing the connection between Italian food and fashion as parts of La Dolce Vita.
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Chloé’s recent creative directors have been Natasha Ramsey and Gabriela Hearst (2020 – 2023). Both women reflect on the cycles of fashion, returning to past styles in ways that explore the richness of the brand’s heritage, as well as the ethics of reuse.
Hearst has renewed Chloé’s bohemian seventies spirit, bringing back maxi dresses, ponchos, and earthy colors, and reviving the environmentalist ethos of that decade.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Silk Macrame Dress By Gabriela Hearst for Chloé
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This whimsical silk dress Pansy Dress (2017) is composed of giant images of pansies. The pansy is a flower’s unique blends of color are a result of crossbreeding, a concept not lost on Scottish fashion designer Christopher Kane. Cain once remarked, “that’s what I am doing now – cross breeding my ideas . . . Pansies are a symbol of freethinking! I like that. I never want to follow trends.”
Photographed as Part of 2017 Exhibit, Force of Nature, at The Museum at FIT in NYC.