Homage to Yves Klein Blue: from art to fashion

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Blue Monochrome

Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962) 1961.  "Monochrome abstraction—the use of one color over an entire canvas—has been a strategy adopted by many painters wishing to challenge expectations of what an image can and should represent. Klein worked with a chemist to develop his own particular brand of blue, called International Klein Blue, and adopted this hue as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of his own particular utopian vision of the world."

 

Blue.  Period., The Queen of Gems (2011) 

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In my favorite combination, with coral and a geometric print at 

Rag & Bone Fall 2011 (via style.com) 

 

Glamour in blue, Diane Von Furstenburg Fall 2011 (via style.com) 

 

A look from Thakoon Fall 2011 (via style.com)