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Gestural Lineages

Drape as movement

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Drape as movement

FAS–ARC–KAR

Drape as movement

Index Code:

FAS–ARC–KAR

Orgin:

New York, USA

Field Notes:

drape as movement · comfort as architecture · body as idea

Defining Moment:

1985 — “Seven Easy Pieces” collection defined modern ease as system

Donna Karan

(

1985 – 2015

)

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Karan translated the energy of New York into fabric.

Her draped jersey and tailored wrap dresses built an American classicism — comfort fused with confidence.

She made motion the measure of modernity, clothing the city’s pulse.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Donna Karan’s work, this approach appears where modular wardrobe systems organize structure through restraint.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Donna Karan’s work, this approach appears where modular wardrobe systems organize structure through restraint.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Femininity as structure

Balance as rhythm

In Dialogue

Purity as control

Drape as discipline