Paul Poiret y el Art Decó

The main purpose of this article is to evaluate two important aspects of the personality of the French fashion designer Paul Poiret (1875-1944). We will firstly study his conception of designers as artist/creators and we will then go on to focus on his important role in the establishment of Art Deco. In order to achieve these aims, we will look at two important cultural contexts: the Post-Romantic -its social and theoretic distinction of fashion- and the Parisian Avant-Garde -its extraordinary conceptual revelation in the relationships between art and craftmanship. In these two areas, we will find the key to explaining this new dimension of fashion and Paul Poiret's contribution to it.
El artículo busca valorar dos importantes vertientes de la personalidad del modisto francés Paul Poiret (1875-1944). Por una parte, su concepción de la figura del modisto como artista-creador, por otra su protagonismo en la formación del Art Déco. Para ello, revisamos dos contextos culturales significativos, el postromántico –su distinción social y teórica de la moda- y el vanguardista parisino –su extraordinaria apertura conceptual en las relaciones arte-artesanía-. Encontrando en estos ambientes, las claves para explicarnos esta novedosa dimensión de la moda y las aportaciones de Paul Poiret.