The Style of Bauhaus

Germany’s Bauhaus art school, which was founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius, and ran until 1932, was something of a prototype for the art school as we know it today, where parties and a collective mentality give rise to collaborative work and self discovery. Although visual signposts such as stark geometric shapes, simplicity and elegance of design might be the easiest-to-spot indicators to Bauhaus’s effect on contemporary fashion, fittingly, for a movement…