All Forgotten Yesterdays: Le Corbusier, The Golden Ratio

Le Corbusier

Image of The Radiant City Plans

Digressing on to another architectural citation, this time in the form of Le Corbusier, modern industrial functionalism draws comparisons to minimal deconstructed tailoring. This also deriving from Metropolis, but focusing on modernism, Le Corbusier`s aesthetic to look to the future as an age of great technological progress where new ways of living shape the structure of modern cities.
The use of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci numbers in Le Corbusier`s Modulor system for scale and architectural proportion, place harmony at the centre of his design philosophy. He saw this system as a continuation of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci`s Vitruvian Man, the fundamental geometric proportions of the cosmic order.

In terms of shoot inspiration the way I would like to interpret Le Corbusier`s aesthetic through the avant garde Japanese idea of structuralism and how this relates to the body in not just covering it but how clothing and the body interact together. Using Yamamoto`s ideas surrounding traditional Japanese dress and largely not referring to Western fashion and ignoring Western developments of the silhouette, the beauty of the garments is found in their use of material. One of Yamamoto`s great influences was a collection of photographs by August Sander focusing on utilitarianism, peoples everyday clothes that reflect their lives. So to use archived Miyake, Yamamoto or BodyMap, focusing on deconstruction paying particular attention to the structure of the body, using similar poses to the ones featured below.

Issey Miyake