www.YoYoBrain.com - Accelerators for Memory and Learning Questions for Principles of Art and Design Final

Category: Designer ID - (30 questions) Ellie Saab: *Hally Berry's famour Oscar dress

always ends shows with a wedding dress 1st non-Italian to be member of camera nazionale della mada

Alberta Ferretti: *Greek and Roman influence

known for her use of chiffons opened boutique "Jolly Shop" at age 18

Narciso Rodriguez: *casually studies architecture and cuban colors.

Caroline Bessett's wedding dress designer known for black and white form fitting clothing

Giorgio Armani: *Always wears all black with white shoes, believes it makes him look taller.

named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world American Gigilo designer- all american clothing

Miuccia Prada: *at first had no interest in being a fashion designer

created the ever popular nylon backpack studied mime for 2 years then was a communist Stella McCartney: *Daughter of Paul McCartney, the Beatle

huge animal activist, only uses organic patterns offered position with Chloe two years after her graduation because of her last name

Monique Lhuillier: *Husband Tom is also her business partner

French, Spanish, and Filipino descent Minneapolis and L.A. store locations only

Oscar de la Renta: *Label, not design house

apprenticeship with Christian , major influence studied painting in Madrid

Jean Paul Gaultier: *Nickname: "Enfant Terrible"

made Madonna's famous cone corset (vogue) puts women in men's tailored suits

Alber Elbaz: *designs for

In the Israeli army at age 18 Fired from Yves St. Laurent for his looks

Angela Missoni: *did not want to be a designer, wanted to be either an organic pig farmer or own a toy shop

Her daughter Margerita is her muse and will inherit the company Created the first jeans sold by Missoni Frida Giannini: *replaced at , previously worked at

"roman way of life" is her inspiration known for her accessory designs

Sophia Kokosalaki: Interested in fashion because her mother dressed her in ugly clothing Greek heritage influences her designs (draping methods)

Nicolas Ghesquiere: *designs for Balenciaga

signature silhouette: skinny or tight leggings or jeans with a voluminous top always inspired by history

Max Azria: *designs for BCBG

first designer to offer high quality designer clothing for a realistic price range opened his own concept store (Jess) where he sold his own french fashions

Thomas Maier: *with Bottega Venetta

Expertise in swimwear doesn't believe in logos, wants people to see his designs for what they are, not what brand they are

Vivianne Westwood: accredited with the creation and popularization of the "punk" look made a dain by the prince of whales Valentino: founded the Life Association with Liz Taylor that benefits AIDS after retiring in January, plans to open fashion institutions and to preserve fashion history

Stephano Pilate: *"le smoking" jacket

adrogenic sexiness, not revealing wont start his own line because he believes that it is ego driven for designers to be celebrities

Alexander McQueen: designed "Bumsters", inspired by plummers no share holding in his own company

Zac Posen: business partner is P Diddy inspired mostly by the 1940s

Caroline Herrera: *born Jan 8, 1959

on international best dressed list from 1971-1980 went to her first fashion show (Balenciaga) with her grandmother at 13

Christian LaCroix: *born May 19, 1951 in Arles, France

always wanted to be a costume designer or an art curator takes walks every thursday to people watch for inspiration Matthew Williamson: did limited edition coca cola bottles "we speak" image, made 6 of the 12 selected images

Diana VonFurstenberg: *born Dec. 31, 1946 in Belgium

invented the wrap dress and attempted to sue others for producing it geometric prints with bright colors

John Galliano: his graduation collection was bought in entirety by Jone something of Browns boutique appears at the end of every show dressed up accordingly to the theme

Michael Volbracht: *Geoffery Beene

designs for older women and career women known for hourglass silhouette

Anna Sui: *born in michigan

has a collection of images called the "genius files' her runway soundtrack is the most anticipated every year (rock and roll)

Michael Kors: *born in 1959 in Long Island

inspiration from mother (Jean who was a model, wore only black and white, hair up and red lipstick) favorite breakfast food is iced tea and a piece of cheese Karl Lagerfeld: *born September 10 in Germany

no formal training, became a designer at age 18 design for Fendi, Chanel, and Lagerfeld gallery (namesake)

Category: All Material - (115 questions) Elsa Schiaparelli: originated seperates for sports clothes. died in poverty because she refused to design for Nazi's wives

Coco Chanel: Designed for Nazis!

Trompe Loeil: (trick of the eye) Schiaparelli started this trend with her bow sweater.

Aesthetics: the way we communicate through the senses

"Highland Rape Collection" by Alexander McQueen, example of the fact that pleasure is not always the emotion trying to be proveyed through design design Houses: designers dont usually desing for their own hour, but John Galliano does

Charles Frederic Worth: "Father of Couture" couturier to Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon

Cost Per Wear: divide purchase price by the number of times a product is worn

Formal Quality: plan for garment's style Design

Formal Quality fabrics and other components used to Materials produce the garments formal quality the method used to assemble the garments construction formal quality any garment wet processing finish

Another word for formal is: Intrinsic - can't change intrinsic qualities

Another word for Informal: extrinsic - qualities that can be changed without changing the garment itself

The designer brings _____ and _____ to Inspiration: gives birth to a particular design their work. Originality: Sets it apart from all other designs

The human ___ and _____ translate light eye and brain into color.

Hue: the color family or color name, such as red, green, blue, orange, and yellow.

Brightness: also called "value" or "luminance", areas in direct light

Saturation: The intensity of a color

Tints: colors mixed with white shades colors mixed with black tones colors mixed with gray

______created the color wheel (color Isaac Newton spectrum bent into a wheel)

Complementary schemes: lie opposite each other on the color wheel

Split complementary color schemes: aka triads or contrasting colors, lie on either side of a color's complement on the color wheel Analogous color schemes: adjacent on the color wheel and have similar hues monochromatic color schemes: use a single hue with variations in the saturation and brightness only

Achromatic color schemes: have no color, only black, white, and greys

Red, yellow, and orange are ____ arousal high colors blue, green, and violet are ___ arousal colors low

Moire: a rippling water effect

Actual dimensionality: three dimensional implied dimensionality: two dimensional

Silhouette: describes the outline of the whole garment

Rudi Gernreich: invented the topless bathing suit and the thong bathing suit

Dart: a triangular fold stitched to shape the flat fabric to specific curves of the body shaped seams: fitted side seams shoulder seams, fitted waistline seams and princess seams can substitute for darts

Yoke: horizontal divisions within a fabric, usually small, flatpanels at the shoulder, waist or midriff

Gores: vertical divisions within a garment, usually tapered panels

Gathers: the drawing together a series of small folds of fabric that are stitched in place Drawstrings: cords or strips of fabric that are pulled up and tied to shape the garment to the body

Pleats: Decorative, unstitched folds of fabric that create shape and release fullness

Tucks: decorative flods of fabric that are stitched into the place and dont open up like pleats

Elastic: draws up the longer fabric of the garment to the shorter length of the garment

Stretch fabrics: stretch over the body curves to help garment fit lacing: similar to drawstrings

Knit: interlaced instead of interwoven yarn flat collars: cut with a neckline edge nearly identical to the garment standing collars: emerge directly upward from the necline with no part folding back against the garment (turtleneck) rolled collars: combination of flat and standing, they extend up and then fold down extended cuff: open band and closed band, most common type, function is to fit a full sleeve to the smaller wrist area turned back cuff: an extension of the sleeve itself or a separate unit that is constructed and then applied to the sleeve edge, then rolled up against sleeve set in sleeves: the most comon of sleeve types, most difficult to sew, sleeve is set into oval armslot raglan sleeve: baseball sleeves kimono sleeves: cut as one unit with the bodice front and back inseam pockets: placed at structural seam on garment, either open or closed inseam applied pockets aka patch pockets, made from fashion fabric attatched to the outside of garment slashed pockets aka welt pockets, cut into main body of garment, have one or two strips of fashion fabric covering raw edges straight waistbands: straight pieces of fabric that encircle the waist for maximum stability folded waistband elastic waistbands, considered to be straight b/c they are not cut to fit the curves of the body contour waistband cut to form a light curve which isintended to conform to body shape soft trims: indlude lace, braid, and ribbons hard trims: include buckles, buttons, zippers, snaps, beads, ect structural trims: decorative touches that are created during the actual construction of the garment fibers: natural or manufactured ways texture can be added to a garment yarn sturcture: been made fuzzy mechanical finish: using device to change yarn or sanding jeans thermal finish: when they've done something to cause them to be slicker b/d heat is applied chemical finish: when chemicals are applied to alter surface surface design: ribs, plaid, raised surfaces product design: using yarns and fibers to change the impact of the surface of a garment weight: the heaviness of lightness and thickness or thinness of a fabric drape: how a fabric falls when suspended from the body determinant texture design thats very clear indeterminant texture: layers that hide parts

Space: the total area to be organized, the area between shapes or withing shapes

Kinesthetics refers to sensory input that occurs within the body direciton: a movement has direction, can be horizontal, vertical, up and down, side to side force the force or speed at which movement is performed also affects the garments movement flow the succession of movements is affected by tempo and pattern

Clothing that ______with the body corresponds moves smoothly with body movements Clothing that gets there before you do anticipates actually ______body movement

______garments inhibit body movement Restricting and can slow you down

Clothing that trails behind body movements Lag ___ behind it.

Complexity: how stimulating the garment is based on how many units a garment has, their shape, similarity and organization

Most people prefer ______levels of medium complexity

Basic Goods: necessities that change very little from season to season

Classics: a style that never becomes completely obsolete, but remains accepted for a long time

Fashion Goods: products that can change frequently

Post Modern: designs are more complex, exaggerated and unorganized

To Increase Complexity: Increase # of units increase degree of intereest of the units decrease the cohesion among the units

Novelty: How we think a style is from previous days, people tend to like medium levels of novelty

Gestalt Principal, Similarity: the grouping of units due to their sameness

Gestalt Principal, Proximity: the grouping of units due to their sameness and closeness in space Gestalt Principal, Proximity: the grouping of units due to their sameness and closeness in space

Gestalt Principal, Closure the perception of implied shapes thatare not acutally enclosed or complete forms

Gestalt Principle, Continuation: the following of a direct path or line through an interruption or break

Des. Principles: Repetition use of the same thing more than once d principle: Parallelism: the use of lines lying on the same plane, equidistant at all points and never meeting

D principle: Sequence: the following of one thing after another in a particular order, a regular succession

D principle: Gradation a sequence of adgacent units alike in all respects except one, which changes in consistent and distinct steps from one unit to the next

D Principle: Radiation a feeling of movement steadily bursting outward in all directions from a visible or suggested central point

D principle: Rythym: the feeling of organized movement, suggests movement which must be in a direction

D Principle: Concentrism: the progressive increase of size of layers of the same shape

Scale: related to proportion, but scale compares only sizes, not other qualities

Proportion: the result of comparative relationships of distances, sizes, amounts, degrees, or parts

Balance the feeling of evenly distributed weight resulting in equilibrium, steadiness, stability, and rest emphasis an area that attracts the viewers atterntion and becomes a focal point harmony an agreement in feeling, a consistency in mood unity the sense of completed oneness, wholeness, integrated totality

Tolerance; how much over and under the measurement can be tolerated body values may be light, medium, or dark value contrast: between skin, hair, and eyes can be low, medium or high

Intensity: is changed with makeup and hiar dyes

Body Undertones: can be warm or cool