Op Art

1960s art movement that had a great influence on the fashion of the time. Taking inspiration from Victor Vasarely’s paintings, designers such as Cardin, Balenciaga, Castillo, Heim, and Lanvin created optical illusions playing on depth and relief and the relation between the background and foreground, using decorative black-and-white geometrical patterns (checks, waves, lozenges, stripes, and mosaics). When these “optical” designs reached the shops they were very popular. At the beginning of the 1990s Op Art underwent a brief revival.