Stripes are a set of lines, as a pattern can be of different colors or may with just two colors. Stripes are commonly seen everywhere: in nature, food, emblems, clothing.
In nature with zebra, in food with sweets like candy, in emblems for example in US flag, in clothing the lines are everywhere.
Colored, marinière, pinstriped: the stripes come in the fashion Hall of Fame. This pattern can associated with simplicity and freshness, the stripes dictated the style of the time they passed through, they have different type of meanings for different historical period.
The origin meaning of lines is present in every historical period, this because over the course of time they have turned many times on the clothes of important celebrity, who with their style have marked the graphic symbolism.
Stripes on screen
Italian fashion house Missoni is best known for its bold knitted pieces, with stripes and chevron patterns as its signature. Its striped dresses were a sell-out success and the family business caught the eye of American Vogue editor Diana Vreeland in the 1970s. Meanwhile French
designer Sonia Rykiel has been stripes down the catwalk since the 1960s and
items adorned with boldly coloured stripes alternated with black continue to dominate the brand’s year-round collections.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith and Jean Paul Gaultier are good examples of how stripes have seeped into a brand’s visual identity. The former’s composition of multicoloured, horizontal stripes are as recognisable as the company name itself, and have been splashed across everything from cufflinks to suit linings, and socks to a Mini car. Originally featured on a men’s shirt in 1997, the label’s graphic designer, Alan Aboud, was struck by the pattern and incorporated it across the brand’s corporate packaging in a move that was only meant as a temporary initiative.
Stripes that have made “history” in cinema
“The single standard” is a film directed by John S. Robertson in 1929 and the main characters were Greta Garbo and Nils Asther.
Greta Garbo wears a dressing gown and pajamas in black and white stripes.
“It Happened One Night” is a romantic comedy by Frank Capra in 1934.
The main character, Claudette, wears a pullover with diagonal stripes
This film won the Oscar in 1934.
“La signora del venerdì” is a film directed by Howard Hawks in 1940.
The main character wears a tailleur with fucsia and black stripes
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