Sculpted Nature
Nature is the ultimate artist; sculpture her foundation. Every painter, or sculptor who has left a mark of their creativity upon the centuries is driven by…
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Frida Kahlo Reflection
Feet? What do I need you for when I have wings to fly? I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I…
Chihuly Glass Fashion
Engaging in Daly Chihuly’s out of this world glass creations through fashion in 100ºF Miami summer. Chihuly shattered the conventions of glass, turning it into a…
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…
The Vogue Editorial that launched Grunge
Among the fashion moments that were shunned then and praised now… Marc Jacob’s notorious 1992 grunge collection that got him fired from Perry Ellis….
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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.
Imaginary Interview with Gustav Klimt
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.