Movie Stills: Why Change Your Wife?

Swapping color swatches for pattern, this week's movie stills are from Cecil B. DeMille's 1920 comedy Why Change Your Wife? featuring the gorgeous and incredibly adorable 18-year old Bebe Daniels. Although I hated the sexist and anti-woman message, the visual beauty of this film can't be denied. Stylistically post-art nouveau, the fashion and furnishings are still overloaded with ornamentation and geometric patterns. I really love how over-the-top glamorous everything looks. The variety of patterns seems never ending-- there's something different on every layer clothing and surface of the environment!

Abstracted Nature

Technically it's Spring, although I'm still wearing my winter boots and long coat. In honor of this (cruel) distortion I'm posting these ads from Glade Sense & Spray. The artists are abstracting and distorting the natural, geometric patterns flowers typically possess, into more free-form, free-flowing patterns. After liberties were taken with the visual representation of flowers, the viewer can still understand what he/she is meant to see.

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Mozambique Fashion Week 2010

 Check out these promo posters for last year's Fashion Week in Mozambique. The use of bold compliments really make these images joyous and lively, in tune with the spirit of the location. Traditional patterns fill the textiles, showing how much culture influences fashion. I included these as some nice examples for pattern week!

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