Some months ago, London's Kerry Taylor Auctions, an auction house for vintage clothing, sold a mini-dress from Bonwit Teller, a New York department store which remained open till 1989. The dress, circa 1965, inspired by artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was finally sold for various hundred pounds.

1. Composition No. II, with Red and Blue, by Piet Mondrian (1929)

Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 40.3 x 32.1 cm - MoMA, New York.

2. Bonwit Teller, ca 1965.

The same auction house had another interesting lot: a coat signé Moschino, printed with the very popular women of artist Roy Lichtenstein's paintings (USA, 1923-1997).

3. Reverie from 11 Pop Artists, volume II, by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)

Technique: print / Measures: 68.9 x 58.3 cm - MoMA, New York

4. Moschino, exact date unknown

The young designers of Opening Ceremony (Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, also creative directors at Kenzo) presented this summer a collection of t-shirts and dresses, inspired by the surreal eyes and lips of Belgian's artist René Magritte (1898-1967).

5. Shéhérazade, by René Magritte 
(1947)

Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 60.3 x 42.2 cm. 
 

Vanthournout Collection, Ijzegem, Belgium (according to Christie’s 2012 catalogue)

6. Opening Ceremony - Spring/Summer 2014 Collection

To recreate the general atmosphere of the artist, models' heads were covered just like in "The Lovers", also by Magritte.

The Lovers, de René Magritte (1928)

Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 54,2 x 73 cm.

Private Collection, Brussels, Belgium.

Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik was also summoned for the collection, and he created stilettos based in "The Blow to the Heart".

8. Manolo Blahnik - Summer 2014 Collection for Opening Ceremony 

Here in Argentina, designers seek inspiration in those looks that caused sensation in the past, revamping them into the present time.

9. Retrato de la señora Victoria Ocampo, by Anselmo Miguel Nieto (1922)

Technique: oil on canvas - MNBA

10. Las Oreiro - Winter 2014 Collection

Victoria Ocampo, truly elegant in this painting by Anselmo Nieto, poses with a white rose near her foot, redirecting our eyes to her shoe, which has nothing to envy to nowadays' models. The writer was always an avant-garde. Around those days, recently divorced from Mónaco Estrada, Victoria was convinced by her lover, Julián Martínez, to pose for Nieto, while she was finishing the manuscript for her first book, De Francesca a Beatrice.