Simultaneous Migrations: Sonia Delaunay, Tristan Tzara, Constantin Brâncuși and Lizica Codreanu
What is it about?
This article uses fashion to draw the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay and prominent interwar Parisian Romanians (Tristan Tzara, Constantin Brâncuși and Lizica Codreanu). I propose the idea of "simultaneous migrations" as a conceptual exercise linked to Delaunay's Simultaneist theories and the flourishing international community living in Paris between the two World Wars. It shows fashion’s mobility beyond and across cultural differences, identities and aesthetics through Simultaneity, focusing on her interwar Romanian connections in Paris.
Why is it important?
In a time when cultural, ideological and identity divisions are evermore striking, this conceptual exercise using the example of Sonia Delaunay, Tristan Tzara, Constantin Brâncuși and Lizica Codreanu can offer a potential alternative blueprint to understand transnational, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary cultural negotiations between individuals, communities.