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Rainbow

N.40 of September 1st, 2016

Cristina Morozzi

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Historian, anthropologist, and expert of colours and their symbolic language, Michel Pastoureau, has stated, “colours are not irrelevant. They convey codes, taboos, and prejudice that we obey without realizing it. They have hidden meanings that influence our behavior, language, imagination, and environment”. (Le petit livre des couleurs, Editions du Panama, 2005). Colours have seasons and alternate throughout our lives. Fashion gives us an essential “peek” into their coming and going, after large quantities of black and white in fashion and design, we have returned to the rainbow. A mix of colours, and geometric and figurative patterns adorn clothing, furniture, walls and floors, providing a vastly varied panorama. Paris’ Musée des Arts Decoratifs is hosting ‘Fashion Forward’, an example of recent design installations, works and exhibitions that follow suit, shedding the black, daunting shades of a stormy sky to make way for a rainbow. Fashion is always the first to conjure up these evolutions; Dior’s widely flared skirts in 1950 were the anecdote to the dreary post-war garb.

Cristina Morozzi

Editor-in-chief
editor@themoodboarders.com/old

Historian, anthropologist, and expert of colours and their symbolic language, Michel Pastoureau, has stated, “colours are not irrelevant. They convey codes, taboos, and prejudice that we obey without realizing it. They have hidden meanings that influence our behavior, language, imagination, and environment”. (Le petit livre des couleurs, Editions du Panama, 2005). Colours have seasons and alternate throughout our lives. Fashion gives us an essential “peek” into their coming and going, after large quantities of black and white in fashion and design, we have returned to the rainbow. A mix of colours, and geometric and figurative patterns adorn clothing, furniture, walls and floors, providing a vastly varied panorama. Paris’ Musée des Arts Decoratifs is hosting ‘Fashion Forward’, an example of recent design installations, works and exhibitions that follow suit, shedding the black, daunting shades of a stormy sky to make way for a rainbow. Fashion is always the first to conjure up these evolutions; Dior’s widely flared skirts in 1950 were the anecdote to the dreary post-war garb.

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The Moodboarders is a glance into the design world, which, in all of its facets, captures the extraordinary even within the routine. It is a measure of the times. It is an antenna sensitive enough to pick-up on budding trends, emerging talents and neglected aesthetics. Instead of essays, we use brief tales to tune into the rhythm of our world. We travelled for a year without stopping, and seeing as the memory of this journey has not faded, we have chosen to edit a printed copy. We eliminated anything episodic, ephemeral or fading, maintaining a variety of articles that flow, without losing the element of surprise, the events caught taking place, and the creations having just bloomed.