Artworks on the runway...
10:58 a.m.
We've published several posts about the deep connection between Art and Fashion... Here's another one!
M. C. Escher (Netherlands, 1898-1972) created imaginary worlds in his wood engravings, in which tiny shapes became others in absolute fantasy. Maison Chanel could not resist such black & white stravaganza...
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1. Chanel - Haute Couture 2013 Fall-Winter Collection.
2. "Verbum," by M.C. Escher, 1942.
As far as history goes, nobility cherished perpetuity by having their portraits done by the greatest artists of their time. Giovanni Boldini (Florence, 1842-1931) was a talented portrait-maker in service of 20th-century-fashion, but he could not transcend in Art History due to his inability to see the modern take on art led by his fellow colleagues, the impressionists. However, the fashion world, thanks to Alexis Mabille, rescues him for a very deserved tribute.
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3. Alexis Mabille - Haute Couture 2013 Fall-Winter Collection.
4. Princess Anastasia of Greece, by Giovanni Boldini, 1914.
Traveller artists in the 18th and 19th century brought to Europe, through their works, the nature of the New World. Jean-Jacques Audubon (French, nationalised American, 1785-1851) left no bird without study. His prints become fabrics for Valentino.
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5. Valentino -
6. "Carolina Parakeets," by John James Audubon, 1825.
In 1921, photographer Man Ray (Philadelphia, 1890 - Paris, 1976) made a series of portraits of artist Marcel Duchamp dressed as a woman. Later on, Duchamp used the pen-name Rrose Sélavy to sign his own creations. Glamour and mystery recreated by Versace.
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7. Atelier Versace - Haute Couture 2013 Fall-Winter Collection.
8. Portrait of Rrose Sélavy, by Man Ray, 1921.
(Rrose Sélavy comes from the French sound of the phrase - Eros, c'est la vie - which means: Eros, thus is life)
Israeli artist Guy Yanai (1977) paints, with a colourful palette and simple geometric shapes, Summer landscapes. Nothing more inspiring for a Summer collection than palmtrees and beach-houses.
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9. Band of Outsiders - 2014
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10. Splash on Failed Painting, by Guy Yanai (detail).
The Centro Cultural Recoleta is living a hectic moment due to the success of the exhibition “De Gino Bogani al diseño de autor,” a true public-catcher as the Kusama phenomenon at the Malba. The designer has confessed that he found inspiration in Argentine artists as Berni and the geometrical.
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11. Gino Bogani - "Paintings" Colección
12. "Tramas," by Eduardo Mac Entyre - oil on canvas (135 x 63.5 cm) - MNBA
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