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miércoles, 5 de septiembre de 2018

BIRTWELL Celia (Textile designer)

Actress Jane Asher sits amidst the jumble of accessories and kooky paraphernalia of a London boutique in 1966. She wears a printed paper minidress by Ossie Clark, another variation of which hangs on the wall behind her. The print is by Celia Birtwell, who decorated the fabric used by her husband Clark, and the "paper" is a prototype of that used by Johnson & Johnson for J-cloths. Birtwell's stylized, sometimes psychedelic, florals with striped borders were also used for flowing fabrics resurrected from the 1930s, such as crepe and satin. Her lavish, two-dimensional style, which suited the fantastical and semi-historical explosion. Birtwell's bohemian mixture of Indian and traditional English themes was an expression of the wealthy, young Chelsea society around her, which was exploring the trail to Goa at the same time as inheriting the English countryside. 

Also look up for Clark, Gibb, Pollock


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