I came upon this piece perusing through the Dior Couture Spring '07 collection and I love how Galliano reinterpreted Hokusai's work. The proportions are sinusoidal. They vary from the wide, bell sleeves and full hoop skirt, to the narrow, banded waist and slim legs poking out of the gown. The crinkled bow around the model's neck looks like an elegant wave but the graphic print creeps up the gown adding turbulence to the white stillness. 
I love it when the lines between Art and Fashion blur. It's beautiful to think that you could wrap your most immediate form of expression, your body, in something inspiring to the many who meander through The Met.++
SB
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the choice to leave the image in its pure form, not tampered with or reconfigured, ensures the integrity of the original work lives on. The form of the dress cloaks an eternally poignant image in a new symbol of beauty.
oh, pretention.
hello sb.
i can't believe your are writing about kanagawa!!!
this is the print i wrote my essay for the MFA on, well one of them anyway! AND, i saw two of the worlds best impressions a couple of days ago. we truly are a match made in heaven, i miss you SO much!
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