Haute Couture is one of the strongest remnants of the rococo period today, making it a strong example of the continuous curve in contemporary design. The designs themselves are over the top extravagant curves and forms, always stretching the way we think and view design.
Haute Couture is reflective of the social climate of the 18th Century, particularly in terms of the celebration of excess and heavy inequalities between social classes. To the everyday person Haute Couture is seen as extravagant, inaccessible and ultimately unnecessary – an ideal which parallels the social attitude of the increasingly discontented lower class of the rococo period. However, to the socially elite minority, Haute Couture fashion was representative of high culture to differentiate themselves from the lower class; extravagant and expensive art which enabled the sensuous impulses of wealthy to be expressed. Fuelled by economic prosperity and the transforming social mindset, particularly in terms of a newfound appreciation for the feminine form, Haute Couture was ultimately a result of the sensuous impulse.
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Christian Dior Haute Couture Paris, Spring-Summer 2007 |
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