ART GALLERY GIRL Clothing takes a fine-art spin with painterly prints & bold brushstrokes WRITTEN BY TENISHA CLARKE ISA ARFEN style.com
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art,” are great words from the late Oscar Wilde that have truly come to fruition in a number of collections that have come down the runway in recent seasons. <strong>The</strong> merging of art and fashion has definitely progressed from an early history where fashion was only depicted in art, especially during the Renaissance when fashion as a medium played an extremely significant role. Art and fashion began intermixing during this period as artists used fashion a great deal in paintings, and eventually used their skills to create and design textiles and embroideries, like in the case of artist Antonio Pisanello. Today people are highly influenced by artistic garments themselves, but by the cultural aspects of the art pop movement as adopted by icons such as Jeremy Scott and even singer/singwriter Lady Gaga. <strong>The</strong> spirit of collaboration between artists and fashion designers can be seen as early as the late 30s, when Elsa Schiaparelli and many of her Surrealist artist-friends worked to produce a number of designs for her collections. Elsa went on to work with artists like Salvador Dalí on the shoe hat. She also created the Lobster dress and the Tear Illusion dress with appliques provided by Jean Cocteau. . Garments as canvases, the true merging of traditional art and the fashion industry, date back as far as 1965. Yves Saint Laurent produced his autumn/winter collection of A-line shifts that year in collaboration with Piet Modrian. Since then, art and fashion have continued to have a longterm, close, working relationship with one another – almost to the point where its hard to differentiate between the two at times. PRADA SS14 style.com Recently, we’ve seen a tremendous collision in art and fashion where artists and fashion designers have come together in a number of ways to merge the characteristics of each respective category through their collaborations. In 2008, artist Damien Hurst designed for Levi’s, and Fabrizio Plessi and Louis Vuitton created the limited edition Molten bag that sold for nearly $50,000. From 2010-2012 we saw Rosson Crow and Zac Posen, Meret Probst for Fendi, Matt Groeninh and Comme des Garcons, illustrator Keith Haring few Nicholas Kirkwood, and the Jimmy Choo capsule collection with Rob Pruitt just to name a few. <strong>The</strong> emerging “gallery girl” trend was prevalent in Resort 2014 shows by designers such as Milly, Nicole Miller, Cynthia Rowley, Rachel Comey and Cédric Charlier, which then trickled down into Spring 2014 shows. Large portraits appeared in a number of artistic styles. Some were painted or inked, while others were hand-drawn or enlarged photo prints and classical paintings. Design houses such as Chanel, Prada, Céline, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Jil Sander, Christopher Kane, Versace, Calvin Klein Collection, Isa Arfen, Giles, Andrew Gn, Giorgio Armani, Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Aquilano. Rimondi, Paule Ka, and Antonio Marras incorporated cubist portraits, street murals, freehanded painterly pantones, daring brushstrokes and a fine art spin inspired by artists like Picasso, Jeff Koons and Stephen Sprouse into their collections. CELINE SS14 style.com 44
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