Fashionistas and Design Divas: Current Fashion Trends Influencing Interior Designers Across the Globe
Fashionistas and Design Divas: Current Fashion Trends Influencing Interior Designers Across the Globe
On January 12th Versace’s new advertising campaign featured Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, and Precious Lee posing with Versace’s new La Medusa handbag. As a designer, I could not help but to be inspired by such bewitching photos while also connecting the dots between current fashion and trending design. Fashion and design both go hand and hand. Let me show you!
Complimentary colors
As I leisurely viewed Hailey Bieber’s advertising photo, my eye immediately went back and forth between the pastel purple handbag and Hailey’s bright yellow top. Yellow and purple are complimentary colors meaning they are opposite on the color wheel but friendly enough to work together to catch attention. Through the use of two opposing colors, our attention is brought to the new Versace handbag. In the interior pictured above India Mahdavi, an Iranian-French architect and designer, used complimentary colors violet and yellow to create a sophisticated space while also highlighting key products (In this case, a product she designed herself) such as the “Abbasi in the Sky” wallpaper.
Pattern & Texture
Precious Lee’s advertisement shows us another way fashion and design go hand-in-hand. As I viewed Precious’ advertisement, I could not help but notice how the smooth Versace handbag stood out against the model’s coastal patterned dress. And then it hit me! Pattern and texture were both used to highlight the new handbag. In the image above posted this past December by Andrea Schumacher, an interior designer whose firm is located in Denver, Colorado, uses pattern and texture in the same way to highlight unique features in the space. I mean just look at those smooth pendant lights hanging amongst an enthralling chaos of line and pattern!
Focal Point
I for one have never been to a Versace photo shoot (or any fashion related photoshoot for that matter), but I have been to an interior design photoshoot where the designer strategically captured the focal points of each space. In Kendall Jenner’s advertisement photo, her arms are positioned in such a way that her bright yellow nails point and even brush against the black handbag. Her nails and arms direct us to the focal point – the black Versace handbag. Similarly, in the photo above, the designer Stacy Garcia brilliantly uses the lines and shapes in the space to highlight (in my opinion) the best piece of the design – the sculpted head.
“Texture and form effect everyone, through all phases of life. Set Design is ingrained in my sensibilities and stands true today, that space, form and architecture are back drops to work magic with color, textures and materials.” ANDREA MONATH SCHUMACHER
Photo Links:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/hailey-bieber-versace