Gowns from Ziad Naked’s 2017-18 fall/winter collection,The Snow Crystal Forrest.
Mood board of references used by Ziad Naked for his 2017-18 fall/winter collection, The Snow Crystal Forest.
illustration depicting a scene from One Thousand and One Nights, illustrated by Sani Ol-Molk (1856)
My chosen image is an illustration of a scene from the collection of stories One Thousand and One Nights. This scene depicts Shahrazad, the Sultan’s new wife telling her husband stories in order to delay her execution. The artist, Sani Ol-Molk captured the splendor of the story with his use of contrasting colours on the walls adorned with intricate, gold patterns. This indicates the scene is set within the Sultan’s grand palace.
I watched Ziad Nakad’s 2017-18 fall/winter, titled The Crystal Snow Forest. This collection was clearly inspired by a snow-covered wood, as depicted across the wall behind the catwalk platform. White predominated this collection however, the rich blacks, blues and reds used contrasted the inspiration. I researched various articles to discover other sources of inspiration for this collection and found one that spoke about how Nakad “proposes his romantic vision of a season in magic colors” and how his collection “gradually heats up when velvet, feathers, tulle and lace are interwoven through learned embroideries.” Initially this makes me think of Christmas However, I read on and discovered that one of the sources of inspiration was one thousand and one nights, “like a queen of an exceptional night, dressed in white and gold that illuminates this universe fit to the legends of a thousand and one nights.”
In conclusion I now have a better understanding of this collections inspiration and the variety of sources needed to fully inform and create a collection. I also have an understanding of how contrasting ideas can inform the same project and complement each other, because I could not understand how stories from cultures across Asia related to the inspiration of the snow-covered forest. However, I know understand that it was the romanticism and wonder that informed the direction of Ziad Nakad’s 2017-18 fall/winter collection.
Bibliography
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Trend Prive Magazine (2017) Ziad Nakad adds Sparkle to Fall/Winter Collection. Available from: http://trendprivemagazine.com/2017/07/23/ziad-nakad-adds-sparkle-fallwinter-collection/ [Accessed 18/11/2017]
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