Long Layer Dress
Diana Orving · Date not documented
Stockholm, Sweden
Diana Orving
- Fluid textile construction
- Organic sculpture
- Movement-led draping
Diana Orving began making clothes as a teenager and developed a self-taught practice spanning fashion, costume and textile art. Her work considers how bodies inhabit space, using fabric, seams and movement as expressive tools.
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Long Layer Dress
Date not documented
A published clothing design associated with Diana Orving.
Diana Orving, via ELLE Sweden
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Blue floral printed dress
Date not documented
Floral pattern brings an expressive surface to the garment’s silhouette.
Diana Orving, via ELLE Sweden
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Pale relaxed trouser ensemble
Date not documented
The leg line and proportions give this design its characteristic shape.
Diana Orving, via ELLE Sweden
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White asymmetric short shirt dress
Stockholm Spring/Summer 2017
An off-centre line gives this silhouette a sense of movement.
vogue.com; photographer not identified on retrieved page
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Brown abstract printed wrap dress
Stockholm Spring/Summer 2017
A representative dress that makes the designer’s approach to silhouette visible.
vogue.com; photographer not identified on retrieved pageCollections & archive pieces
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About Diana Orving
Organic sculptures and paintings extend the same sensitivity to material that shaped her clothing, with memory, relationships and the subconscious providing recurring subjects for exploration.