Yeohlee distilled the pure, curvilinear forms that she found in the

work of Art Nouveau architect Antonio Gaudi for her black silk Low

Bustle and Bellows dresses. Her Ovoid jacket was made

primarily from two large, elliptically-shaped pieces of wool.

Maria Cornejo’s two-piece suit contrasts form with riotous color

and texture. The skirt is a gently modified tube, while the bubble-

back jacket is an assemblage of curved pattern pieces.

While some sixteenth-century tailored garments were made with

sleeves whose patterns were cut with curved or arced sides, it was

only in the twentieth century that the use of crescents, arcs, and

ellipses become prevalent. For his dramatic ruffled blouse, Halston

developed a unique, one-piece construction method in which the

ruffles were cut from one piece of fabric with two arc-shaped wings.