NATURE-INSPIRED COLORS AND SHAPES IN CLOTHING DESIGN

Abstract

Nature is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for fashion designers when it comes to colours, materials, textures and pattern of garments or accessories. Its suggestive potential, the infinite imaginative resources that nature forms generates and reveals alwyas remain relevant, continuously feeding the creative imagination. The flexibility of shapes, angles, overlays of volumes, all these we find in clothes, in prints, in the search of cutouts, in the way that many designers chose to put their mark on their fashion creations in order to harness the expressive language of human body. The purpose of this article is to offer models of clothing based on combinations of colors and shapes inspired bu natural sources. The colors used from natural sources and their values in the RGB color model were presented. Also, the procedure for obtaining a four-color wheel and the method for creating “rose” curves were described. Different geometric shapes based on the rose curve were defined. Based on he selected colors and the defined shapes, the design of 3 models of nature-inspired dresses was made in order to visualize how the proposesd colors and shapes will look in a completed garment, Discussion and a comparative analysis have been made with the results obtained by other authors.

Keywords

• eco-clothing
• eco-fashion
• identity construction
• apparel design
• flower colors
• rose figure