| 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.
SassoonĄ¯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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