Blog About Fashion and Interior Design

Hello, dear readers! We are very pleased to welcome you to our blog dedicated to the arts of fashion and interior design. Usually, a blog would concentrate on one thing or the other but we love both so much that we thought that it would be an interesting idea to have them share the limelight in this blog.

In this blog, we will share our own personal opinions about various topics concerning fashion and interior design. The opinions are ours and ours alone, unless stated otherwise. We want to use this blog to express our views about the things that interest us most and we hope that you will enjoy reading our articles.

Fashion and Interior Design: The Link

Although we decided to include both fashion and interior design in our blog because we are simply interested in both, there is a growing conversation about the intersection of fashion and interior design and we are all there for it.

If you were to think about it logically, it starts to make sense. When you design a piece of furniture, for example, you have to think of the shape (or silhouette), the colours, the materials, and the textures you wish to give to it. What is that process if not the same that fashion designers use to create clothes?

Sure, interior design is not limited to making furniture as a big portion of it is concerned with the finding and placement of furniture at homes in order to create beautiful and harmonic living spaces. Some interior designers do not even design furniture, so that’s important to note.

And still, what are fashion and interior design? What do they represent? To put it simply, it could be said that they are two of the mightiest tools one uses to express themselves. One’s fashion style and one’s home tell a lot about a person, their personality is represented in them, whether consciously or not. We think it’s past time we stopped thinking about various creative arts as separate entities. Much like literature and film, fashion design and interior design are connected, even if it seems like they are completely different things. One can draw inspiration from the other and some designers have already started taking notes.

Take for example the influential fashion designer from Cyprus, Hussein Chalayan. In 2000, he debuted his Afterwords collection where the models “undressed” a few pieces of furniture to reveal they were beautiful dresses, while the last model donned the literal table that turned into a skirt.

Chalayan was inspired by his own experiences (having been born during a war in Cyprus), which led him to think about how people hide their possession and how they carry them in such a horrific event. There’s a lot more that could be said about this eye-opening collection and about the very experimentation that Chalayan utilised.