Whenever we dress up for an occasion, the chosen dress we clad on should always be figure flattering – that is to accentuate our assets and cunningly disguise the flaws. Fashion is all about optical illusion, isn’t it?
Left: Bridget Riley
Right: Drift 2 in 1966
The term “optical illusion” would always link me to one person, Bridget Riley – an English painter who is famous for op(tical) art. You know those paintings that you have to look really closely and the lines would begin to move or the circles start spinning?
Monique Lhuillier Spring/Summer 2012 Collection
This year at New York Fashion Week, Designer Monique Lhuillier have taken that philosophy to the ultimate extreme by letting her Spring/Summer 2012 collection be the canvases of op art to literally redraw the silhouette. The body-con dress is designed with colour-blocked panels to emphasize a woman’s hourglass figure – voluptuous busts, cinched-in waist and full hips.
Spring/Summer 2009: Herve Leger, Alexander McQueen
In fact, designers such as Alexander McQueen and Herve Leger had already jumped in to the illusion bandwagon back in 2009. The moving lines may be headache inducing when you look at them but the slimming effects are unrivalled. This is the reason why A-list celebrities like Kate Winslet, Victoria Beckham and Gwyneth Paltrow have all embraced the illusion trend.
Left: Kate Winslet made a triumphant appearance at the premiere of Mildred Pierce in Venice in this dress from Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2011 collection which featured the cunning black side panels that took inches off her waist and increased her cup size all in the blink of an eye. Right: Victoria Beckham made herself even slimmer when she wore this Alexander McQueen dress that uses black lines on a white dress to give the impression on an hourglass.
Left: Gwyneth Paltrow exposed her skin with the cut-away sides of Versace Atelier dress had shaped her figure proportionately, and the fading colour made her look even taller. Right: Keira Knightley is known for her boyish frame so the capped sleeves and cobweb pearls of this Chanel Couture dress softened her shoulders and the subtle pearls panels accentuated her hips.
Now, we have the IT dress that does all the work to bestow us with the perfect figure. There is no need to painstakingly to go on a diet anymore, right ladies?
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