| In 1903 the city became a hotbed of creative innovation as painters Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and Wiener Werkstaette designers Josef Hoffmann and Kolomon Moser led a style revolution. Art Nouveau was combined with Modernism to create a new aesthetic - organic modernism. Klimt painted the primal force of sexual attraction in canvases lavishly embellished with gold leaf featuring seductive wraiths with porcelain skin and berry stained lips.
Sassoon’s new collection uses the concept of organic modernism to create a series of shapes that are diametrically cut with L shaped layering and reversed graduation techniques to create paradoxically oppositional effects. Colour is geo-ganic, the abstract squares, sinuous lines and L shapes used as decorative devices in the work of Klimt and Egon Schiele are transcribed into subtly toned sections of related colours such as cyclamen, violet and mulberry - then accented with a vibrant flash of belladonna.
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