DELAUNAY Sonia (Designer)

Brilliantly coloured and sharply patterned geometric designs are lavishly displayed on this "simultaneous" coat. Sonia Delaunay, a leading Parisian artist of Orphism, a movement that developed out of Cubism and made colour the primary means of artistic expression, has here merged art with fashion. In 1912 she began a series of non-figurative paintings called Contrastes simultanés, combining geometric forms with bright, prismatic hues. This work was based on the theory of the simultaneous contrast of colours of the nineteenth-century chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul. Her simultaneous fashions had their origins in these paintings, since she moulded the fabric to the shape of the garment to ensure that the application of the colours remained intact. Her new concept of fabric pattern, whereby the cut and decoration of the garment were created at the same time, perfectly complemented the unstructured clothes of the 1920s. 

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