Saturday, January 8, 2022

FROM THE LIFE OF PLANTS (1995-2005)...

 
This is, in fact, a theme that we rarely addressed. We came into the field of knitwear with the intention to creatively reform it, to introduce fresh ideas and concepts into knitwear decoration, so the plant and floral motifs that dominate traditional knitwear were for us a kind of conservative, hackneyed and worn-out "classics".
 For us, the decorating knitwear with plants and flowers was about the same as opera arias were for the first jazzmen of the 1920s.
Nevertheless, sometimes we still turned to this topic. In 1995th we even planned to create a small collection of dresses (called "FROM THE LIFE OF PLANTS"), decorating them with "anthropomorphic" plants... Only four dresses were made, and only two of them were photographed…


















And these are the few precedents when we still decorated our knitwear with simple (not "anthropomorphic") plant-ish motifs: