Starr - The Underdog

[silksheets]

While I agree with you all that she was out of her league, I can understand crying at the thought that you were destined to spend your life as an attorney.

Not something I've cried about.

[nausicaa]

Not sure if this has been posted before...but Starr's website: http://www.stellamariscouture.com/

[corprip]

I was looking at Starr's T-shirt for PR and I noticed something- Starr was confusing art deco with art nouveau. Look at the lady and how her body is stylized, and the two fans curving away from her asymmetrically. Total art noveau. It's no wonder she bombed the challenge. She totally didn't get it!

[harry54]

How do you know she was confusing art deco with art nouveau.
From the look at all of the t-shirts, it seems that the designers can make whatever they want.

I think her t-shirt is the best out of all of them.

[corprip]

How do you know she was confusing art deco with art nouveau.
From the look at all of the t-shirts, it seems that the designers can make whatever they want.

I think her t-shirt is the best out of all of them.

I say that because her losing dress is the dress on the t-shirt. Seeing it in an art nouveau context makes me think Starr had that in mind all along, not art deco.

[nausicaa]

Actually, am pretty sure the t-shirt design is art deco. I see where you're going, but the art noveau style is still somewhat more rococo. Art Deco, on the other hands, predates modernism, and I see echoes of it not only when I look at the flapper on the design, the very stylized fans, the font used, but also when I look at the the dress itself - basically an updated flapper dress (the streamlined figure, the dropped waist, and the geometric cut-outs are pretty big hints.) And the 20s is, after, all, the period during which Art Deco was born.

ETA: Check out Alphonse Mucha as opposed to Erte. There's a pretty big difference there.

[SnowflakeGirl]

Thanks for pointing that gaffe out, corprip & nausi. A good designer must research, research, research!

[geobabe]

Not sure if this has been posted before...but Starr's website: http://www.stellamariscouture.com/

"As the smell of charcoal and dill pickles wafts through the air, you remember the first time you delicately slipped into your little jacket. It was last Thursday. The hot Mediterranean heat sank with the sun beneath the depths of the Mediterranean. In its absence it left a faint wet chill in the air. The deckhand offered you his coat, but you politely declined with a smile and took the jacket off your arm."

Someone's been reading too many J. Peterman catalogues.

[Salome]

The dress looks like art deco to me; however, I can see what you're saying, corprip. The tendrils of the fan on the tee scream art nouveau, but I don't think they betray the art deco style, either.

[nausicaa]

Thanks for pointing that gaffe out, corprip & nausi. A good designer must research, research, research!

Um, SFG, thanks for the props...but I'm saying that Starr (incompetent though she may be as a seamstress, as a designer...etc) did at least know what she was talking about when it came to art periods.

ETA: Art Deco and Art Nouveau are easily confused though. But in my opinion not even the fans scream anything but Art Deco to me (sorry corprip). They are in keeping with the Schezerade/pseduo-Eastern motif popular in Art Deco design (Art Nouveau themes were more organic, inspired by nature), and their lines are too stylized and not quite curvy/flowy enough (sorry, I'm bad with terms! ) to be Art Nouveau.

ETA2: Hey, 999 posts!