COLOUR-BLOCK

Colour-block is a device and a style built on combining several large solid blocks of rich, contrasting colours in a single look or piece. Instead of prints and patterns, a clean plane of colour works here, and all the expressiveness is born from their bold juxtaposition — blue with orange, pink with red, green with yellow. The device is rooted in abstract art (recall Piet Mondrian, whose canvases inspired Yves Saint Laurent's famous dress of 1965). Colour-block makes a look graphic, energetic and modern, and also lets one play with the figure's proportions. It is valued for its clarity, boldness and optimistic brightness. Colour-block is a style of confident statement through colour, in which a simple geometry of shades creates a powerful, joyful and very modern effect.