Don't worry boys and girls I'm still blogging in English, my French is not that advanced sadly. But, the title does involve a word I think we can all understand.
Silhouette.
As part of my brief I'm having to write about and research into the design principles, as they relate to all areas of art... I got those very words from the brief itself.
The first Silhouette I have looked into is the famous Hourglass.
When I say famous I'm referring to the high profile the hourglass figure comes with thanks to famous iconic women such as Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and more recently Super Model Lara Stone, Plus Size model Crystal Renn and T.V siren Christina Hendricks.
All beautiful and I mean, breath taking women.
But this Silhouette blog isn't about our NATURAL hourglass shape, it's about the one our clothes give us. the hourglass any girl can have whether she be short, tall, curved or skinny. Every girl deserves even as little as five minutes to be dressed like a Hollywood sex symbol.
I have a real love for the hour glass; it's chic, its simple and really sexy. But then who wouldn't want a figure like Marilyn Monroe.
My young sister is the hourglass out of the two of us, she was blessed with beautiful long blonde hair and bombshell curves, sadly I'm the tall, flat chested one of the family, I've got what I would say is a good sized bum but its still only a handful...Hardly the hump a man can hold on too!
Anyway, you see where I am going with this? Some women have it and some women need help. No bad thing and it's certainly nothing to worry about, this is where I bring the fabulous Stella McCartney into the equation.
Cast your minds far back into 2011'way back when', as they say and that is when this fabulous British designer created a beautiful solution to either enhancing your hourglass or giving you one just for a day, all from the crafty use of the right kind of Silhouette.
Remember now? The beautiful mesh and black dresses which after the canny playing around with a few lines here and there, McCartney managed to create garments with a sculpted silhouette to give the illusion of a heart hourglass, and lets be honest, if you can give super model Natasha Polly an hourglass shape you really have achieved what you set out too!
For me it was the only way I could understand what the term 'Hourglass Silhouette' meant in design terms by looking back at this collection because I can't lie, when I first read it I was totally baffled, and even after my lecturer went through it with me I wasn't 100% certain I knew where she was coming from!
McCartney also very cunningly also used natural skin tone material in areas where any woman's body would naturally curve in at the waist whatever her size contrasting with either red, white or blue and gave the illusion of a nipped in waist and the outcome really was quite outstanding.
The evidence? Two of the great British kate's, Moss and Winslet.
Enjoy your cake AND eat it girls, the clothes have got your back when it comes to that extra half an inch.
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