But being a profitable venture doesn’t make her designs less valid as artistic statements. The idea for a clothing line emerged when she & Robert needed a new income stream when her family lost all their property in St Petersburg after the 1917 Russian revolution. Through Casa Sonia (1917-20) in Spain, and and Atelier Simultané (1923-34), her designs were a genuine commercial success. Though to be clear, Sonia Delaunay’s clothing is part art project, part business. Some of Sonia’s work is like this too, to be honest.īut I find her motivations and what she achieves by working in textile really interesting. It neither excites me or disgusts me, it just exists in a place I find of little significance. I think I hadn’t paid much attention to Sonia Delaunay before because of her husband, Robert Delaunay. Dress and car designed by Delaunay, Paris, 1925Įarlier this year I discovered an artist whose approach to working in textile I was really interested in.
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