Exotic Fashions and Style:
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The end of World War One brought rapid awareness to the fact that the world was growing smaller in relation to the rapidly expanding technologies. More and more people were moving into the cities from the country.
Modernity had struck: Urban society was born, advertisers, big business, and the middle class boomed.
With the rapid change in culture and society, visionary fashion designers like Paul Poiret and Coco Chanel changed the face of fashion.
But the history of Art Deco fashion doesn’t start in 1920.
You really have to go back to the turn of the century to get a good sense of the elements that fused into the Art Deco fashions of the 1920’s.
At the same time Poiret extracted women from the corset and put them into the chic gowns he is so famous for, artists, musicians, writers, and intellectuals converged upon the large fashion capitals of hte world.
Ideas and creativity were buzzing. The Art Deco movement that peaked during the 1920's was the pinnacle of a larger social movement.
Art Deco in the 1920's is by no means the only decade that offered Art Deco fashion.
You can see many different examples of Art Deco fashions and paintings on ebay. Luckily too, you can still get some great deals on beautiful art deco fashions.
The western world has always had a love affair with the "exotic" motifs and cultures.
As the Victorian age wore down western society broke out of it's shell and embraced it's love of the fashions of the "near and far east" and integrated many of the myths, fabrics, and fashions of "Oriental" cultures into it's styles.
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