“Touch me, thrill me, startle me …make me cry and shudder”. Fashion Trends Throughout History
Posted: Thursday, February 24, 2011
by Chris Kanyane
Global Center For Research World Wide
The World of Fashion can simply and basically be divided in two ages in history. The first age is the baroque.Baroque is fashion style that was prevalent from the late 14th century to the early 17th century in Europe. Baroque is the period in history that used clothes, buildings and artifacts to astonish and impress. This period was followed by Rococo. This was a period in the 1700s in Europe when French culture was dominant influence throughout Europe. Furniture grew softer and less massive, discarding earlier stiffness in the bearings.
The rococo period was the period of enlightenment philosophers. The philosophers cherished not only reason but nature, not only thought but feeling. They were of the deep opinion that the source of wholesome, vigorous sense lay in sentiment and sentimentality. Reason and sentiment, the return to nature, and the cult of simplicity were and still are the dominant forces of fashion or relaxed outlook.Theiridea of happiness was sentimental, peacefulness, social and private.
Thus the prominent French philosopher Dennis Diderot’s plea to artists, especially painters he ordered to paint him: “Touch me, thrill me, startle me …make me cry and shudder”.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)I was looking at a European magazine featuring the world's top designers with their latest collections. It's amazing how many of them have become so outrageous. Some of them are theatrical and beautiful, but some make me cry and shudder!
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