80's Courreges - can anyone give me some keywords as

[AnyDayNow]

80\'s Courreges - can anyone give me some keywords as

I keep seeing phallic birds and I just can't put that in the description!!

2 piece cotton/poly suit - I'm thinking early 80's - black and white - and ???

 

[Coutureallure]

Graphic Print should cover it!

 

[joules]

M.C. Escher perhaps? The print makes me think of his art, a lot!

 

[vertugarde]

Abstract/paper-cut B/W birds The design does look like Escher.

What does the label look like? His company changed ownership several times and by the mid-80's, he was no longer producing a couture collection. Could be early 90's.

 

[AnyDayNow]

I'm going to go and look up Escher and here are the jacket and the skirt labels:

 

[lkranieri]

Sweet dress.

Looks like flying fish to me, though:

<img src=http://another-time.com/Misc/FlyingFish.jpg>

Lynne

 

[AnyDayNow]

someone else said it looked like flying fish. I went and looked at some of Eschers work and this does resemble that type of optical art

 

[vertugarde]

It would be worth digging into this a bit more. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac designed for Courreges 1994-96. He is well known for using strong graphic imagery but you would need to do more research on this print. I haven't seen many printed fashion designs by Andre Courreges.

The label is similar to the VFG example. It doesn't have 'Made in France.'

There was I remember a retrospective of Escher work in publications and design books after he died in 1972.

 

[lkranieri]

Good grief, I was so surprised that so many people thought those figures were birds ... and then I realized that they were looking at the white part of the dress while I was looking at the black parts/figures. Birds AND flying fish ...
Lynne

 

[lkranieri]

The Escher bird/fish art:

<img src=http://another-time.com/vintageclothing/EscherFishBirds.jpg>

 

[AnyDayNow]

Thanks for all the informaiton. I'll also look into Castelbajac. I found a dress that must have been from when he was designing that was black and white but not with this kind of print and the other black and white prints I could find were from the late 60's. I can't really find all that much out there - don't know if people hang on to their Courreges or if it is just not very popular.