Deconstruction

The deconstructivist trend for breakting things apart, changing and cutting everything up, is smashing the rulebook,as the unstructured becomes the very structure of the garment. The art of patchwork and creative destruction via laceration, patchwork, and topsy-turvy tailoring makes old clothes into something new. The refreshing, eco-inspired reflections behind these upcycled, experimental styles enlivens wardrobes with conceptual suits and more eco-conscious clothing.

Reconstruction

A new kind of formalism is shaking up traditional clothing structures, which are now being reconsidered, redesigned and restructured as part of a modern wardrobe representing a new avant-garde, an intellectual asceticism in which black and white, grey and denim blue often feature heavily. Geometric experimentation evokes cubism. Modesty and simplicity are no longer the enemy of style.

New Objectivity « Nouvelle Objectivité »

These trends are decidedly well-thought out and reflect a current situation that is rarely rosy. Emotion is suddenly born of reflection: precision becomes experimental and construction/deconstruction becomes a cerebral matter. This introspective, serious, sometimes austere movement reflects a time of doubt, a sometimes warlike age, a difficult day-to-day reality and an uncertain future in tribute to the German avant-garde of the immediate post-World War I period described in the exhibition "Nouvelle Objectivité" at the Centre Pompidou. Any objective resemblance to any aspects of our current daily lives is not entirely coincidental.