5/1/11

Best of Fashion/Art


Givenchy, S 2007 by Inez & Vinoodh




Wedding Dress, Yves Saint Laurent, S 1988, Homage to Braque



Marc Jacobs, S 2008 and Balenciaga S 2010



Boccaccio 70 with costumes by Chanel
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Luca Luca, Madison Avenue, S 2005
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Valentino at the Ara Pacis, Rome, 2007


Art about Fashion

Finally I will end where I started, with the work of Vanessa Beecroft. It is usually marginalized in the art world for its emphasis on aesthetic formality. Its ability to enact the essence of dressing up captures a certain pretension of the postmodern era that others fail to acknowledge.

VB 52, 2002


However Beecroft's collaboration with Louis Vuitton, along with that of Murakami and Richard Prince, reveals the merger of aesthetics and commerce in our era and the collapse of conventional boundaries of creation.


Nick Knight, Skinheads, 1980 and Lanvin, S 2007

If we take for example the case of Nick Knight above, we can also see the decline of delineation of art and fashion. His conceptual art project on skinhead subculture revealed their homology. The same style unification is in his Lanvin campaign at the right. Fashion and art share values, visions and forms.

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