journal for the Left Front of the Arts

Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova, two of the most influential artistic contributors to the LEF and Novy LEF journals of the 1920s, worked closely together in 1924 to design unprecidented textiles that would reflect their ideologies of production art; art that could be functional in innovating Soviet Union manufacturing.  Their designs contain a heavy Constructivism inlfuence with the focus on geometry, flatness and color schemes utilizing only a few colors per pattern.  Although Stepanova and Popova meant for their designs to be manufactured for the masses, and thus mass produced and affordable, these designs (like the LEF journals) gained an Avant-Garde label.  These designs would come to influence Mod and Pop fashion styles in the decades to come.