EXTER Alexandra (Designer)

Alexandra Exter, an artist/fashion designer, brings the two disciplines together with Dama al Ballo, the painting of a dress that lives somewhere between both. After studying art in Kiev, she went to Paris where she met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Filippo Marinetti. From 1900 to 1914 she travelled between Paris, Moscow and Kiev, spreading the doctrines of Cubism and Futurism among the Russian avant-garde. By 1916 she was working in theatrical costume design in Moscow and in 1921 she became a teacher at the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops there. She promoted the idea that art and fashion could enhance everyday life and began working in fashion design. She designed proletarian dresses in brightly coloured geometric patterns analogous to the work of her friend Sonia Delaunay. In the traditions of haute couture, she made sumptuously embroidered dresses inspired by peasant art. 

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