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“Never a second chance to make your first impression” Albert Kreimler

Sharp Tailoring, geometric shapes, graphic lines, asymmetry and an austere rendering, is the only way I can describe this collection that was inspired by a Kazimir Malevich exhibition at the Tate in London. Albert Kreimler took the idea of the square to new fashionable places for his Spring/Summer 2015 collection for Akris (Boston.com 2014).

Kreimler is said to be a precisionist, his talent in creating crisp tailored pants and adeptly fitted blazers, is nothing short of art finesse.

His Inspiration, Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter and designer; a leading pioneer of abstract art.

At first he painted mainly Post-Impressionist landscapes. In 1909 he began to paint peasant subjects, developing by 1912 a tubular stylisation related to Cubism; then made paintings of still lifes and figures 1913-14 in a Cubo-Futurist style.

 In 1915 he embarked on a completely abstract style to which he gave the name Suprematism based on pure geometrical elements in relationships suggesting floating, falling and ascending.

Published in:

Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.470-1 (Kazimir Malevich 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dynamic Suprematism (2009)

 

 

In these works he used severely reduced geometrical forms – most famously a black square on a white canvas – whose meditative quality served as secular equivalents to Russian icons. He soon moved towards greater energy in paintings such as Dynamic Suprematism in which forms pull and push without relying on any reference to the physical world. (Kazmir Malevich 2009).

The sharp lines and geometric objects that Malevich painted were evident in the Spring Summer 2015 collection, consisting of fifty looks.

The lines used in garments flattered the women’s body profusely. Creating a dynamic woman, whom is both sensual and influential.

Each model had a congruous peak hat, the length of which covered the model’s eyes, thus edging towards the taciturn aurora of women in the workplace.

Suprematism was evident in the collection whereby scattered geometric shapes come into play, reinforcing the cubist influence. Whilst the colour palette of white and accents of mustards, vermillion and black pay tribute to an abstract artists palette.

Kreimler has surreptitiously perfected the fit of garments to a woman’s body. This has to be commended, each neckline, sleeve, pant among other areas seamlessly moulds the body.

Effortlessly chic.

 

 

Reference List

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• VF COLLECTIONS: Akris Spring/Summer 2015 - Paris Fashion Week (online). 2015. Available: http://www.boston.com/life/fashion/2014/10/30/collections-akris-spring-summer-paris-fashion-week/WkWiu4m9lFW5lVeN0T9PQI/video.html (Accessed 9th January 2015).

• Kazimir Malevich 1879–1935 (online). 2015. Available: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kazimir-malevich-1561 (Accessed 9th January 2015).

 

 

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• Dynamic Suprematism 1915 or 1916 (online).2009. Available: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/malevich-dynamic-suprematism-t02319 (Accessed 9th January 2015).

Video

• Akris..2014. Akris Defile Spring/Summer 2015 (online). Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLNlXfxOjo (Accessed 9th January 2015).