Acid Dresses

60s ... - everything was completely new: philosophy, music, lifestyle and fashion.

Fashion began to take on fantastic images: space-style suits, geometric cut and print, new technologies, and with them new materials that were not previously used in clothes - synthetics, vinyl, plastic, metal and even paper.

Mary Quant creates clothes that defy the conservatism of the 50s. Spacious dresses appear, without frills and petticoats, and very short ones. André Courreges, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne are some of the most avant-garde designers of the 60s. Costumes Pierre Cardin geometric cut, short, angular dresses, as if intended for robots inhabiting the fantastic world of space. For their manufacture, Cardin used plastic, vinyl, silvery leather.

André Courrez in 1964 created the "space age style", which was dominated by geometric cut and synthetics. His models, like creatures from another galaxy, took to the catwalk in dazzling white and silver suits.

The futuristic idea also captivated Paco Rabanne. To create his models, he used plastic and metal, materials reminiscent of the equipment of astronauts and spaceships. André Courreges, Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne constantly experimented with new technologies. Technical fiber, plastic, metal, and even plain paper were used for casual wear. Many young people dreamed of space, distant galaxies,….

The whole scale of the cosmic and synthetic boom captured many artists, including the American artist Andy Warhol, who created images of popular Hollywood stars in a somewhat unusual perception. These portraits appeared from the world of fantasy in bright acidic shades. James Dean, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe... They looked from portraits in bright, blurry psychedelic colors, as if from the world of fantasy. New fashion has become very popular among teenagers and young people.

The pop art style made itself felt in the early 60s in New York and London in the works of artists who depicted familiar, but at the same time, objects changed from the usual perception, with the help of repeated repetition, removal, enlargement, using psychedelic shades ... Some of these works have become symbols of that time, for example, portraits of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe by American artist Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol was an artist, designer, producer, collector, filmmaker and writer. He turned out to be the closest to the world of fashion. At first, the artist was engaged in window design, painted shoes for shoe companies and for fashion magazines. When fame came to him, he began to create clothes according to his own sketches. Known for his dresses called "Bottle", "Fragility", blouse "Green letters C & H". His sketches were used by designers to create their dresses in pop art style. Andy Warhol collected clothes and wrote in his own magazine "Interview", where he talked about famous and famous, printed photographs of fashion photographers Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton.

In 1965, in New York, he opened the Parafenalia boutique, selling mini-dresses made of metal, paper, plastic and silk with pop-art prints with bright acidic shades.

And then pop art found its place in the fashion of the 90s. Luxurious dresses with portraits have become a kind of tribute to the memory of Andy Warhol. The culmination of the 1991 collections was the sumptuous dresses of Gianni Versace. His "Marilyn Monroe" (1991) Warhol dress is a triumph of pop art in fashion.

Ankle-length evening dress with a tight fit.This dress has an extraordinary print - images of Hollywood style icons - James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, or rather their acid portraits by Andy Warhol. The bodice - the bustier of the dress is made luxuriously. Curls of rhinestones and appliqués adorn the chest, while the curvature of the corset's cups merges into a deep V-neckline. Bright acidic shades - yellows, goldens, greens, reds, blues and purples - it seems that everything is incongruous with each other, dazzles and shines. In this dress, all the colors enhance the impression of brightness and light.