The now ended Serge Poliakoff at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris inspired Marcel Marongiu, creative director of Guy Laroche since 2007, for his AW14-15 collection. Although the artist’s abstract shapes didn’t play into silhouette, Marongiu incorporated a big part of Poliakoff’s favorite colors into the palette: cinnamon, teal, deep green, and deep purple were all present in the collection.
Born in Russia, Serge Poliakoff was a Paris-based painter associated with the European expressionist Taschisme movement and the CoBrA group. Poliakoff fled his home city of Moscow during the Russian Revolution in 1917, and made his way from Constantinople to Paris over the course of six years, supporting himself by playing the guitar. In Paris, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he worked in a traditionally academic style. Like all practitioners of full abstraction, Poliakoff was concerned with the relationships between line and surface, form and content, color and light.
