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Architecture and Fashion: Cut From the Same Cloth

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Threads of fashion find their way into modern building design.

It would be nothing new to speak of architecture and fashion together; art and design of all stripes rely on principles of construction. There are crossover points between the two worlds everywhere from conceptual to social. Just as some apparel desigers have been tagged "architectural" in their aesthetic, a few of the city's buildings embody the link between where we dwell and what we wear.

Brooklyn's Toren, marketed as "A new angle on living," does indeed flash a bit of the angular future-fantasy of a decade of Gaultier. The graffiti-scrawl metalwork that anchors Ian Schrager's 40 Bond Street may remind us of the iconic scrawl-wear of Stephen Sprouse. Daniel Libeskind's proposed New York Tower designs, while being celebrated for their environment-friendly intent, also call to mind the Asian-minimal slant of Comme des Garçons, which, of course, is often called "architectural." A more demure vision—Chanel, perhaps—emerges in the the textile-inspired weave of ShoP Architects' 290 Mulberry, well-suited (so to speak) for its girly-chic Nolita neighborhood. Finally, would it be a stretch to think, Pleats, Please, when gazing upward at the the iconic Hearst Tower?

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