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When you're a fashion designer, you can LITERALLY get inspired from anything, anywhere. Our favorite designers have proven this pretty efficiently. They were inspired by their OWN nation's culture and people. A great way to portray love for your country, isn't it? Here are a few dresses you wouldn't have imagined were inspired by the designer's country :-
1.MANISH ARORA
The Kitsch King of India adds his aesthetic, colorful, intriguing and beautiful style to his designs. Arora not only does his typical collections like every other designer, but furthermore explores different fields, such as designing clothes with aspects of nature, the Games of Thrones collections, a unique line that adds a beautiful orange skulled purse, and gives us a taste of his Indian culture with his line of sarees, kurtis and lehenga-cholis. In the Spring-Summer 2015 collection, his models graced the runway with bindis, sindoors, and intriguing shirts with images of Hindu Goddesses. He has a magnificent blend of cultures. In his "Indian" collection, he added heavy pattern and sequins with bright eye shadows and interesting headdresses that resembled his own distinctive trend.
2. TOMMY HILFIGER
With navy inspired chic clothing, school-boy preppy look to working with the All-American girl, Ms. Gigi Hadid, Tommy Hilfiger has managed to add a notable design to the palate of the world catching the eyes of the fresh new generation of today’s teens. "It all came from a desire to create something that wasn’t out there already....I’ve always loved the prep school look, traditional Ivy League, and the clothes that sailors and jocks wear. I wanted to take these familiar old things and give them a more laid-back attitude, to make them modern and cool",says Hilfiger when asked about his idea.
His latest show, presenting the 3rd line of TOMMYXGIGI included a Race-Car Theme, with a track runway as models poised the Speed Windbreaker jacket, or Flag Print One piece and Racer sunglasses, along with logos and color of the U.S. flag. Hilfiger’s wonderful designs are a perfect fit for the modern working citizen as they present an elegant yet comfortable style.
3.Issey Miyake
Born in Hiroshima in 1938, nothing has stopped this designer from setting high fashion trends and displaying his own Japanese cultures (embedded with western influence) to the world’s stage. There is even an exhibition dedicated to him at Tokyo’s National Art Center.
In his Spring 2011 collection, he coded his models with a cone-shaped mesh hat made from straws, which is akin to Conical hat or the traditional Kasa hats. Some of his other materials resemble the Japanese Noh costume with mizugoromo (water garment) and maiginu (cloak) that were worn during special performances.
4.Coco Chanel
A huge thanks to Ms.Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel, who really changed the game for women’s fashion as she introduced a new pathway astray from corsets and into the world of breathable, youthful, and chic clothing that inspires our fashion today. First starting by designing hats, Chanel opened up a boutique in Paris, France (one of the world’s favorite fashion capital). By 1913 she had introduced a successful sportswear collection for women made of Jersey fabric. The cheap fabric yet embedded with great quality and comfort became Chanel’s favorite.
As she went on, she fell in love with Silk velvet, which she used for her dress suit called “Watteau”, and in 1926, her iconic “little black dress” came out, becoming instantly popular. Chanel continued designing dress suits using jersey, silk, velvet, sequin, then finally tweed. The following years after WW2, Chanel was roused by strong, beautiful women to design clothing that matched their characteristics, so her tweed fabric “slim skirt and collarless jacket trimmed in braid, gold buttons, patch pockets, and a gold-colored chain sewn into the hem, ensuring it hung properly from the shoulders”(Fitzgerald) became her signature that continued to praised by generations after her.
5.GIANNI VERSACE
Renowned Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, had begun sewing clothes since he was a child.''When you are born in a place such as Calabria and there is beauty all around a Roman bath, a Greek remain, you cannot help but be influenced by the classical past,'' he once said. Those themes, the Italian Baroque, Grecian motifs and Estruscan symbols, were woven into his collections, as were the themes of today: celebrity, rock, pop art, metal, plastic, even bondage, with notorious dresses he completed with straps of leather. His death was a shock to the industry. However, the brand is being successfully carried on by sister Donatella Versace who has recently declared that the brand will no longer support the killing of animals for the use of fur in fashion.
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