Design Collection

Moayad Al-Haidari's Costumes

Visual Rhythms like Music

 

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra  

(1919-1994)

 

These painted costumes, these scripted dresses, seem to have gained their fluidity and undulation from the drawings and lines adorning them. Or rather the drawings and lines are acquired from all this fluidity and undulation? These soft, delicate dresses, and these flowing loose abayas, which are all distinguished by their details, are also characterized by the imagination of their designer-Moayad Al-Haidari-and his ability to inject this frequent diversification with the suggestion of joy, freedom of movement and visual rhythm similar to music.

 

The brilliant lines are renewed every time in abundance, so the foliage and decorations appear as if they were some of the weft and warp in the dress, and even some of the shape of its wearer. Each work, designed and "drawn" by Moayad Al-Haidari,is an integrated and different work of art, in which the transparency of the dress is part of the transparency of the drawing, and suggests the transparency of the woman herself.

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To the extent that the textures and inscriptions overlap, the influences are all unified in the end in a formula that gives the dress its unique personality, indicating the slender figure in harmony with Araband Islamic motifs. Thus, the artist-designer achieves every time a visual pleasure for the viewer that is no less than the pleasure of pride for the lady who is embraced by this dress, each time with a new charm, filled with the luxury of sensuality and temptation before the eye.

 

Baghdad 21/5/1994

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