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She is *fab*, isn't she.
I don't know what you've already got, so apologies if these are obvious:
Sonia Delaunay, Diana Vreeland, Art into Fashion. Wonderful, and vital. But i'm sure you're reading this already.
Cohen, Arthur, ed. The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Trans. David Shapiro and Cohen. (especially a short essay called something like 'the influence of art on fashion design - but has some good stuff on artists and fashion)
Stanley Baron & Jacques Damase, Sonia Delaunay: The Life of an Artist Haven't read this in a while, but remember it being an excelllent and very comprehensive biog, definitely the one to read if you're going to
pick one, IMO.
Axel Madsen's - Sonia Delaunay, Artist of the Lost Generation, is also well worth a look (think it's quite obscure but probably not for a decent uni library.)
Found an online version of an excellent article (ah memories): High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design - Carrie Noland. (check out the bibliography as well.)
Useful for commenting on her artistic relationship with Tristran Tzara - which is worth noting if you're going to talk about the design/construction/compositional element and interesting on 'le robe simultanée', and the historical specificity and significance of the development of her particular vision of 'simultané':
"Encouraged (or compelled) by her domestic situation during the war, Delaunay began to transfer the modernist iconography associated with her husband's canvasses onto a variety of decorative objects: curtains, upholstery, lamp-shades, book bindings, scarves, and dresses. In this way, "simultanéité" evolved from a theory of color contrast into a practice of cultural production. The goal of her visual experiments was no longer to discover how one tone affected the perception of another [...]
The implication of her specific version of "simultané" was that a visual identity between objects situated in different institutional contexts could potentially erase the traditional cultural distinctions between them. "
etc.
The Costumer's Manifesto Site, might be useful as well, for links to fashion theory and early 20th C stuff.
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