Fetish of the Week
Top pulls from this week’s internet black hole of procrastination creative exploration. History of fashion and changing times seen through Vogue covers, award for…
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Artists Muse
The artist’s muse. These mysterious embodiments of the feminine have inspired artists since the origin of art. We do not know the extent of the roles these women played in the creation and inspiration of the famed works of Warhol, Picasso and Brancusi, but their allure and singularity is undeniable.
Yayoi Kusama Fashion Icon
Yayoi Kusama: Japanese polka-dot queen and trippy hippy psychedelic color master. Yayoi is one of those prolific artists that does literally everything. Painting, sculpture, installation,…
Tokyo Wraith
Fashion styling meets art exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Playing spectre at the Palais de Tokyo’s labyrinthine exhibition “Inside.” The Palais de Tokyo is…
Eugenio Recuenco X Picasso
Inspiration Fashion meets Art with Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco. He’s recreating Picasso paintings with photographs and makes his 3D models look more like their…
Wynwood Silk Bugs
Wynwood Walls–Miami’s outdoor art museum featuring a rotation of international graffiti artists–offers amazing opportunities for fashion/art/human mergings. Mind blowing graffiti creations on every stone and…
Light Sculpting with James Turrell
Inspiration Issue #8: Art Icon James Turrell “I am not an “earthwork” artist. I am totally involved in the sky. Let me make this very…
Haute Couture Details
“In the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous, and the couturiers thelast possessors of the wand of Cinderella’s Fairy…
Inside Beetlejuice Brain
Fashion houses have proven to make excellent art curators. Before the well worth hype around the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s new Frank Gehry designed home, there was the…
Bill Viola Light
Bill Viola is the kind of artist who will make non-arties fall in love with art and the classical purist admit to liking “contemporary art.” He is a master weaver of video installation, electronic sound and New Media to create a immersive, sensory enveloping…
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From Art to Fashion: Jesus Rafael Soto
In a nod to fashion and art and all that falls in between, I am showing the potential of art and fashion world collaborations by paying homage to artists I love and admire by translating their works into the language of fabrics.
Gustav Klimt’s Love in Gold
Gustav Klimt ionised the female body and devoted his art to its representation, embellishing it in gold, depicting the breath of a woman’s love….
Andrew Wyeth’s World
Before I knew the story behind Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World painting, I always connected it to pain–the image of that women reaching up to the house, her body broken, the house appearing to disappear deeper into the landscape the longer I looked.