RAPPORT Minimalism
MODA Fashion Editor Photography Director Editorial Fashion Assistant Hair & Makeup Model Designers
Paige Schultz Roberto Leon Marissa Monett Jen Anderson Brooke Jarchow Eleanor Fink Caitlin Wagner Sarah Lauren Nasgowitz Madalyn Manzeck
RAPPORT Minimalism
volume 1
Rapport will craft dialogue surrounding the relationship between fashion, culture and various inspirations. While featuring the talent of local and student designers, it serves to converse, understand and instill harmony between the designs and their representations.
Minimalism by Marissa Monett At face value, minimalism is not difficult to conceptualize. It was an artistic movement that now pervades the many realms of creativity. It is a retreat away from the complexities, luxuriant detailing and conventionality of expressionism in design. Or is it? The word has circulated through the lexicon of fashion authorities for years, with some brands taking such an affinity to the idea that it has become their trademark. In recent seasons, the minimalist label has most definitely seen an increase and there’s no doubt its aesthetics breathe through the stylistic approaches of fashion on many dimensions. But to narrate its popularity is not the point. The point is to understand minimalism. Although a philosophical constant, over the years a discrepant relation between its denotation and connotation has seemed to arise.
Now austerity doesn’t lend itself willingly to a mainstream perception of beauty. It seems hard and cold, perhaps even harsh, and beauty carries elegance in its implication. Yet, what innovators of the movement realized is there is quite a lot to be understood about images meaning nothing but what they are. Retreating from a world of metaphors and narrations conventional art produced, minimalism withdrew from the orthodox idea of representation, which is why it’s so refreshing. It’s anti-figurative and pure – the clothing itself is all that needs to be understood. Purity does not necessarily equate to simplicity, though, and the beauty of nothingness does not always arise from lack of detail. There is a difference between minimal and minimalism, but it seems this dissolution is gaining a stronger and stronger affiliation. Yes it is true that simplistic concepts and minor detailing find a home in the minimalist ideology, but they are not its cynosure. And most importantly, its new focus on simplicity versus austerity has become symbolic, the very thing it was not supposed to be.
Of course minimalist design is imbued with minimal elements. It embraces the very basics of fashion construction, and its simplicity is found in rudimentary lines and clean structures. Distillation is at its core, but there is much more to its concept than minimal details. Like all creeds, minimalism has shifted and molded itself throughout the times. It has incorporated Its fashion roots are planted firmly in the futuristic other artistic perceptions and been twisted with trends of the 60s that came as a result of minimalist certain ingenuities. Today minimalism’s subject is art. With early pioneers like Balenciago and much more than the garment itself. It symbolizes Courrèges and late 20th century leaders like a stylistic approach. It represents functionality and Commes des Garçons and Jil Sander, the facets of a lifestyle of discarding the unnecessary. It has the artistic movement were interwoven into new moved into an area of metaphors and figurative form. And at the heart of this new perception was meaning and though the beauty of anti-figurative an ideology - one that focused on the beauty of design is arguably still highly present, minimalism austerity. has found new intrigues surrounding its purpose.
Gothic Pure designed by Eleanor Fink
Captivate designed by Caitlin Wagner
Black Birds designed by Sarah Lauren Nasgowitz
Little Red Dress designed by Sarah Lauren Nasgowitz
Stduka Ludowa designed by Sarah Lauren Nasgowitz
Empire State designed by Madalyn Manzeck
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