Shirts and Skirts - Fall 2025

This is a first semester Work In Progress to create a 2-way motif fabric print using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I am posting these as steps to document the creation process. This project was to create a fabric print based on motifs gathered from an Art Movement, and to design a 2-look mini collection based on a Fashion Era. Art Movement: Futurism. Fashion Era: Steampunk.

Steam-Driven: Thematic Board

Five photos with a steam-powered theme and embodying the emblems of future technology as expressed at the time of the publication of the Futurism Manifesto were chosen for the motifs. The artwork in the cover page is The Weaver by Natalia Goncharova. It seemed apt. The background for the thematic is the exact same artwork, rotated 90 degrees, wind-filtered and color-shifted.

Filippo Thomaso Marinetti (Photo)

Manifesto of Futurism, accessed Nov 19, 2023 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manifesto_of_Futurism.jpg Born December 22, 1876 in Alexandria, Egypt. Died December 2, 1944, Bellagio, Italy. Author of The Manifesto of Futurism, published 1909 as a preface to several poems by him.

Manifesto of Futurism by Filippo Thomasso Marinetti

This Manifesto of Futurism is heavily referenced online when discussing both Marinetti and the attitudes and belief system of the Futurists, especially with their supposed aggrandizing of war and violence.

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Destruction of Syntax (english translation) and other Considerations

There is a slight problem with the dates that are reported for when the Manifesto was written. Marinetti was 32 when the Manifesto was reportedly written in 1908. Yet, according to his own words in the Manifesto, none of the Futurists were yet 30 years old. He may have used something he penned earlier in his career and never published.

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Syncronies of Violence (essay from academia.edu) on Marinetti's representation of Africa in his novel Mafarka the Futurist

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Marinetti and the Futurists at War

* (https://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/war-experiences/filippo-tommaso-marinetti/ ) * (https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2016/01/futurist-filippo-tommaso-marinetti-at.html ) * ( https://arthistoryunstuffed.com/the-futurists-go-to-war-part-one/ )

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The Futurists

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/futurism/