7 masterpieces Haute Couture
Looking at these creations, you realize that fashion is not just clothes, but also a real work of art.
Looking at these creations, you realize that fashion is not just clothes, but also a real work of art.
Dress with Omar from Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Skiaparelli created this dress in the 30s of the last century for the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson. That Wallis Simpson, for which the king of Great Britain, Edward VIII, renounced the throne, and which in 2011 he took off the film Madonna. Incredibly beautiful, from a flowing white cloth, a dress in the floor decorated a huge lobster, who personally painted Salvador Dali. In addition to the lobster on the dress, parsley sprigs are also depicted. I must say, the creation of Elza Skiaparelli inspires fashion designers to this day. And in the collections of fashionable couture, it is often possible to meet the dresses, which depict the same lobster.
DIOR S / S Dress 1998
Famous fashion designer John Galliano headed the fashion house Dior from 1996 to 2011. In 1999, he created a truly unique collection, which many critics are called a genuine high fashion masterpiece. The pearl collection was the famous oriental, blue dress with a deep neckline neckline. If you look good, then you can notice the motives from the works of the Russian artist Lion Baksta, which is so admired by Galiano. The dress was very difficult, because it is completely extended by beads. Just imagine, for its manufacture, employees needed as much as 2000 hours.
Dress from Chinese designer Guo PEI
Guy - Chinese fashion designer. She does not speak English, and if it were not for random cooperation with Rihanna, it would hardly be a broad public to recognize about her creations. When in 2015, Met Gala announced that the theme of the Bala would be China, all celebrities turned their eyes to the east. Rihanna, as an amateur of Podatage and everything unusual, immediately appreciated the dress of Gui. Giant sizes and incredibly heavy, this dress was created within 20 months old workers. Purchase cost a singer in a round sum. Approximately 750 thousand dollars. But it was worth it, because after the end of Met Gala, the dress became the most discussed.
Little black dress Givenchy from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany"
Of course, the story of a small black dress began long before the film "Breakfast at Tiffany." But the creation of a gyvan sheman was becoming a truly cult model. Clear and laconic, straight cut, sleeveless and high incision, it was sewn from black satin. Few people know, but three copies of the dress were created for the film. One thing is now stored in the House-Museum Givenchy, the second is in the Madrid Costume Museum. The third copy belonged to Audrey Hepburn. In 2006, her dress was sold at a charity auction for 925 thousand dollars. All reversed money were listed in the plant of the low-income Calcutta.
Pink dress Balenciaga.
In the 50s, Kristobal Balenciaga called the King of Parisian Fashion. Dior said that all this fashionable world reminded him of the orchestra, where the conductor was Balenxiaga, and not the chanel at all, as many were assumed. In the 1960s, Maestro created a unique pink silk dress and feather marabou. His customer was Francin Weisveller - the wife of a successful financier of Aleka Weisvelller. The dress was terribly expensive. But Francine, of course, could afford such a luxury. In 2015, at the Sotheby's auction in Paris, Balenciaga Maiden's dress was sold with a hammer for a record € 56 250.
"Naked" Dress Marilyn Monroe
We all know about the addiction of modern celebrities to "naked" dresses. Surprisingly, the story of this outfit began half a century ago. For the first time, he was followed by the legendary Marilyn Monroe for the evening dedicated to the 45th anniversary of President John Kennedy. The nude dress that Monroe's herself nicknamed "leather and beads" was manually expanded with 2500 crystals. On the scene in the light of Sofita seemed that Marilyn sings without clothes. For such a masterpiece, the American kinodiv paid the American fashion designer Jean Louis 12,000 dollars. And in 1999, the legendary dress was sold at auction for 1,300,000 dollars.
Space 3D Dresses Iris Van Herpen
High-tech and incredibly beautiful creations of Iris Wang Herpen will repent anyone. This year, the famous Atlas "Harmony of Macrocosmos" was inspiration for the creation of a collection for Iris, published in 1660 with magnificent illustrations of Andreas Ceryclarus. Soaring mini dresses from endless layers of organza, similar to the clouds; The flowing cream dresses in the floor of three-dimensional material resembling topographic maps are truly a masterpiece collection of a Dutch designer.