Sonia Delaunay. Fashion and Fabrics.

Descrizione

The Russian artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) who with her husband Robert Delaunay was a leading light of the Cubist splinter movement, Orphism, branched out after the First World War into a distinctive career of her own. Between 1920 and 1930, she produced some of the most striking and original fabric designs of modern times. She was the inventor of abstract designs for fabrics, and her materials were all the rage among fashionable circles in the Art Deco era. Delaunay made imaginative waistcoats for Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, René Crevel and other Surrealists poets. She dressed Gloria Swanson, various French film stars and the unconventional socialite Nancy Cunard. She designed interiors in collaboration with the Paris architect Mallet-Stevens, and created costumes for the early films of Marcel L’Herbier. Her fabrics were sold by the most exclusive department stores in the world. Jean Cocteau and Blaise Cendrars wrote about her fashion designs, and her decorated scarves are known to have influenced the work of Paul Klee.