Art X Fashion
Fashion Inspired by Art
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Published by: Rizzoli Electa
Release Date: November 15, 2022
Pages: 176
ISBN13: 978-0847872398
Overview
In 75 eye-popping pairings of designer pieces and the artworks that inspired them, this stylish book reveals the art behind coveted fashion designs.
Long before “collabs” became a buzzword, artists influenced every aspect of the fashion world. This approachable collection compares fashion and art side-by-side to highlight a variety of relationships: inspiration, collaboration, and artists working to create their own fashion or fashion photography.
Art X Fashion introduces readers to designers like Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, who famously worked with artists like Picasso and Dalí in the early twentieth century, as well as to such iconic fashion moments as Yves Saint Laurent's 1965 homage to Piet Mondrian. Art and fashion pairings abound and reveal surprising connections: John Galliano and the death mask of Tutankhamun; Edvard Munch and Victor & Rolf; Marcel Duchamp's scandalous Fountain and a hilarious urinal dress by Philip Colbert; as well as inspirations by Frieda Khalo, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Tim Burton and so many more.
Projects by street artists like Keith Haring and Kaws introduce the era of collaborations, which saw artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami work with Louis Vuitton. More recent collaborations include Raf Simons with Sterling Ruby and Kerby Jean-Raymond with Derrick Adams. Chapters on striking purses and other accessories designed by artists, and artists creating in fashion-including Cindy Sherman, William Wegman, and John Baldessari-round out this fresh and delightful take on fashion design.
Praise
“Since Richard Martin’s application of art historical and contemporary art criticism to fashion in the 1980s and Ingrid Sischy’s 1982 Art Forum cover of an Issey Miyake design, much has changed, but much remains contested. The question “Is fashion art?” continues to be argued. Into this debate, Nancy Hall-Duncan lobs a new volley of insights focusing on the ever-expanding inter-relationship between fashion and art as traditionally defined. While explicit citations by fashion designers inspired by art movements abound, it is in the more allusive and conceptual examples that new lines of argument reveal the increasing integration of the two modes of creative expression. Art X Fashion highlights the porosity of the arts in our post-Dada, post-Warhol, post-modern world, and opens an exciting new line of questioning that challenges the persistent hierarchies delimiting fashion’s aesthetic achievements.”
—Harold Koda, Former Curator-in-Chief of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art