Art And Design Research Blog: History of Design

Egyptian Design in Fashion History

In that period of time ancient Egyptians used to wear light clothes which were mainly made of linen. Back then, men wore wrap-round skirts which were tied with a belt at the waist. Only rich men used to afford the ultimate linen and jewellery. Egyptians believed that wearing jewellery made them closer attractive to the gods. Poor and ordinary people used to wear jewellery made from coloured pottery beads. At that time women used to wear full length straight dresses with straps. Draped and pleated dresses were in fashion during the New Kingdom period. On special occasions Egyptians used to wear sandals. There were sandals for the rich and for the poor. The rich used to wear leather sandals while the poor used to wear palm or woven papyrus sandals.

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Egyptian Design In Fashion nowadays

Zuhair Murad's Spring-Summer Collection 2011

He makes use of gold cuffs, Egyptian menat necklaces and wide belts in order to create that Egyptian feeling towards fashion.

Christian Dior's Spring Couture 2004

This collection shows a perfect meaning of Egyptian history due to its textures, forms, colours and masks.

Chanel pre-fall 2012

With the use of flat sandals, rich fabrics, decorated jewellery and full length straight dresses, Karl Lagerfeld is bringing us back to the Egyptian times.

Elie Tahari's Spring 2012

The gladiator gold shoes mixed with that white dress is a typical Egyptian style. The earth colours mixed with gold also leaves that Egyptian feeling.

Katy Perry's outfits in her Music Video Dark Horse

Without any doubt her outfits bring us back to those ancient Egypt times. There is a huge use of jewellery which shows richness. The outfits happen to have different types of bright colours.

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