{"id":16068,"date":"2014-09-09T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=16068"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:44:31","slug":"art-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2014\/09\/art-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Art & Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Piet Mondrian, Composition rouge, jeune, bleu, et grise (1930)<\/p><\/div>\n

Reported by Christie Chu at\u00a0Artnet News<\/a>: To celebrate New York Fashion Week<\/a>, let’s a look at the increasingly intertwined worlds of art and fashion. Nowadays, art plays the muse while fashion gives it a different kind of exposure.<\/p>\n

Over the last century artists and their artworks have become a popular source of inspiration for designers\u2019 collections, and in return, through fashion, art has become more widely available\u2014at least in terms of its price\u2014to the public. In the 1960s Yves Saint Laurent<\/a> crafted the iconic \u201cMondrian\u201d day dress.<\/p>\n

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Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian dress<\/p><\/div>\n

Marc Jacobs\u2019s tenure at Louis Vuitton<\/a> saw many fruitful collaborations with artists, including Stephen Sprouse<\/a>, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and, most recently, Yayoi Kusama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Jacobs and Murakami cemented LV as the most artful leather goods brand, it seemed as if the label had perfected the art-fashion crossover formula. The introduction of Kusama\u2019s collection for Louis Vuitton also coincided with the launch of her retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Books were published, parties were thrown, handbags were pre-ordered, and demand for Kusama\u2019s works was higher than ever.<\/p>\n

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Yayoi Kusama, A Pumpkin RB B (2004)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Louis Vuitton Spring\/Summer 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

On a much smaller scale, creative director Hedi Slimane<\/a>\u2014who in the past three years has spearheaded the total transformation of Yves Saint Laurent\u2014received permission from California conceptual artist John Baldessari<\/a> to reinterpret three of his paintings for his Fall 2014 collection. The results of the YSL-Baldessari collaboration are uniquely exclusive. The three dress designs, which will be sold in an extremely limited quantity of 10 each, were all hand-embroidered; one of each will live in the Baldessari archive, while the others will be scattered across YSL flagship stores worldwide.<\/p>\n

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John Baldessari, Two Opponents (Blue & Yellow) (2004)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2014 dress inspired by Baldessari. Photo: Style.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Not to be outdone, Raf Simons<\/a>\u2014who is often compared to Slimane for the clear influence of punk and youth culture in their respective designs\u2014collaborated with artist Sterling Ruby for his Fall 2014 men\u2019s collection on his eponymous label. Slimane and Simons\u2019s choices of artist are hardly arbitrary. Slimane lived in California for many years and the state became the subject of several photography exhibitions in which he was featured. Simons, for his part, has a deep-seated interest in youth movements and urban gangs that has glaring affinities with Ruby\u2019s work. The recent collaborators had been in talks for several years; Ruby described his creation with Simons as a \u201cnatural thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sterling Ruby, EXHM (3915) (2012). Photo courtesy of Hauser & Wirth<\/p><\/div>\n

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A look from the Raf Simons-Sterling Ruby Fall 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

And it\u2019s not just the high-end fashion houses that are collaborating with artists. Uniqlo, which is owned by Japanese retail giant Fast Retailing, partnered with MoMA for SPRZ NY, a collection of graphic T-shirts, shorts, and hoodies featuring artworks by famous artists (see \u201cMoMA Licenses Warhol, Pollock, and Basquiat for Uniqlo\u2019s Newest Fashion Line\u201c). Jean-Michel Basquiat\u2019s primitivist paintings, Keith Haring\u2019s idiosyncratic figure drawings, or Andy Warhol\u2019s Lifesaver-hued Campbell\u2019s soup can screen print can be bought for less than $20\u2014an astronomically lower price point than, say, a real soup can print by Warhol.<\/p>\n

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Andy Warhol sweatshirt from Uniqlo's SPRZ NY collection<\/p><\/div>\n

At NY Fashion Week, there is no doubt we\u2019ll see art on the catwalk, but is this fashion-art combo just a new way of exploiting artists, consumers, or both? Does it get a pass under the guise of nobly peddling an otherwise unobtainable commodity, art, to the T-shirt-buying masses? Either way, both the artists and the brands are laughing all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n

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