{"id":12483,"date":"2014-09-19T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2018-11-29T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:22:12","slug":"feature-friday-mondrian-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/09\/feature-friday-mondrian-chic.html","title":{"rendered":"feature friday: mondrian chic"},"content":{"rendered":"

For his fall 1965 collection, Yves St. Laurent took inspiration from the abstract paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. St. Laurent recognized that the simple sack dresses of the 1960s would be a perfect canvas for color blocking, and he was often inspired by other artists. This dress was made in wool jersey, and I had the pleasure of seeing it in person at the Yves St. Laurent show in Denver with my sister a couple of years ago. It’s deceptively simple; all the shaping (and there is<\/em> shaping) is hidden in the color-blocked seams.<\/p>\n

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While we were in Spain looking at lots of art, I tried to convince S that she needed me to make her a St. Laurent-inspired Mondrian dress. I showed her a few paintings by Mondrian and then showed her images from St. Laurent’s collection. Maybe it was because we had been looking at art for four days in a row during our Madrid trip and the poor kid was tired and bored, but she was decidedly not interested.<\/p>\n

In any case, it doesn’t matter because it turns out the Monica of MaMeMiMo<\/a> has already done it!<\/p>\n

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How cute is that! I had the great pleasure of meeting Monica and a group of other fantastic sewing bloggers from Spain when they invited me to brunch with them at a darling sewing-themed restaurant in Barcelona, with old sewing machine as the base of many of the tables. Monica made her Mondrian dress using the Jump Rope Dress<\/a> pattern (View B) with grosgrain ribbon for the black frames. You can read her full post about the dress here<\/a>. (Google translate does a reasonably good job for those of us who don’t read Spanish.)<\/p>\n

I just love it. Thanks for letting us feature your fantastic work, Monica! Oh, and as long as you’re over at Monica’s blog, be sure to check out her version<\/a> of our Lisette Round-Trip Dress<\/a>, too. It fits her beautifully, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Friday feature is a dress inspired by Yves St. Laurent’s Mondrian-inspired dress. (How meta!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-jump-rope-dress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/modrian-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-3fl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42972,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2015\/02\/style-and-fabric-inspiration-lisette-b6182-a-line-skirt.html","url_meta":{"origin":12483,"position":0},"title":"style and fabric inspiration: lisette B6182 a-line skirt","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"February 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's some fabric inspiration for making the new skirt included with the Lisette B6182 pattern for Butterick.","rel":"","context":"In "general post"","block_context":{"text":"general post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B6182-image-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":74306,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2020\/02\/sewing-small-talk-do-you-have-a-favorite-designer.html","url_meta":{"origin":12483,"position":1},"title":"sewing small talk: do you have a favorite designer?","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"February 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In this week's Sewing Small Talk, Liesl asks about favorite fashion designers. 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