Friday 8 January 2010

Paul Poiret Harem Pants

I also mentioned Paul Poiret's Harem Pants earlier on, in reflection to the Bloomers suit, both fashion trends are revolutionary at that time. Although they are designed for the better, but both designs took a period to lift off. The silhouette of the Harem pants is also beginning to be a popular choice in fashion today.

'Poiret's major contribution to fashion was his development of an approach to dressmaking
centered on draping, a radical departure from the tailoring and pattern-making of the past. Poiret was influenced by antique and regional dress, and favored clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles. The structural simplicity of his clothing represented a "pivotal moment in the emergence of modernism" generally, and "effectively established the paradigm of modern fashion, irrevocably changing the direction of costume history.'

More info can be found here and here.

Thoughts: Again, the harem pants follows the footsteps of the bloomer suit to be relevant to the fashion now, as both have inspired designers of our time to redesign and reshape these iconic looks.