assignment 4.1

In this first image we can see Elmur in historical tailored trousers with socks attached to them and a tunic, and a viking helmet (referring to his Northern roots).

I just love the historical Greek versus Nothern(European)-symbolism in this Looney Tunes image of Elmur Fudd and Bugs Bunny. I could fill the whole post( and more pages) with the content and symbolism i see in this cartoon, but i will stick my rambling mind to the assignment: compiling historical tailored and draped garments. 

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This above painting,of which i did not write down the source/painter but  i think is just too beautiful not to share, especially as it shows in a superb way the greek/roman draped dresses and veils, and even a hooded cloak. It appeals to a certain level of sophistication, typical for the greek and roman civilization as opposed to the ''barbarian'' Northern countries.

The Looney Tunes cartoon refers in a very subtle  way to this intellectual(spiritual) dimension of historical dress by picturing especially the character of Elmur, in a historical tailored garment, trying too master ''sophistacated manners'' through a posture....

..but its not about posture/gesture in the end,its intellectual, its what is in the mind ...

And do i like the creative minds of below designers first image is a design by Jan Taminau, Draped dress, collection 2009, and the second image , a design by Marc Jacobs Tailored Tunic tight together by a rope....Resort 2010 collection.

Jan Taminau Draped Dress 2090

Marc Jacobs Tailored Tunic 2010

and from a different historical period, the 1920's, a historical  furr cloak 

designed by Fourrures Weil in Paris. I like this image because it expresses the Environmental Protection , the main historical function of the cloak, as well as its ''body-covering'' shape.

and i think an image of dresses designed by Paul Poiret should not be missing within an assignment of historical draped garments... Image is called ''the brides of the future''...sub-title says ''costumes for brides and honorable ladies''.

As a last image, i want to add a an garment by a future designer, a 2009-graduate student of Antwerp Fashion Academy, Emilie Pirlot. She gives the concept&vorm of historical garments a contemporary, personal interpretation; creating a totally new (her own)style....