Fashion as Art .... From Museum to Runway and Back?

[taz]

the beautiful YVES's muse for Catherine in african art dress, van goh, Baraque & the metalic belly sculpture by Claude Lalane.
the infamous Mondrain dress
& TOM FORD surrialism bag

 

[taz]

The lips in this Dali portrait of Mae West would be the inspiration for...
And the latest incarnation was a print done by Stefano Pilati for YSL 2004 cruise collection (can't find a pic of that)

here is stefano's lip print shoes

 

[taz]

maybe there is art inspired by clothes also?

yes there is.

here is a Mattise painting for the Romanian blouse, then YSL transform it to a real dress & Pilati did the same for the cruise collection where u can find more pics on that thread..

& here is the art dialogue exhibtion at YSL couture house at 5 Avenue Marceau, which i visited 3 times last year

 

[taz]

yves saint laurent's picasso inspired dress

app1.chinadaily.com.cn/ star/2002/0131/fa13-1.html

well I think that dress belongs to the 'pop art' collection which reflect the swinging 60s

in the attached picture u can see the picasso dress '1979' on the far left, while the 2nd dress from the right blongs to the pop art line '1966' which the dress u've posted belongs to.

when Paloma Picasso saw her father's inspired collection show, she couldn't hide her tears during that show.

oh & by the way the picture is from london art gallery,& that hall is for the french hall art & it was named after YVES VSAINT LAURENT to honour his 40's anniversary & in return Yves decorated REGENT ST. for the x-mas.

 

[Spike413]

I remember an interview with John Galliano where he said he was inspired by the work of Dali for his f/w 03 collection. He said he wanted to start with something very structured that would then "melt down"....much like some of Dali's paintings with things that appeared to be melting into something else.

Dali's legendary melting clocks from "The Persistence of Memory"

And his own self portrait

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Going a tiny bit off topic, Colin McDowell notes that the mini-skirt, a design that looks best on a slim adolescent rather than womanly figure, and Twiggy the (now) grand dame of adolescent models preceeded Sergei Nabukov's Lolita. Adolescent sexuality was explored by fashion about forty years before contemporary British art, Grayson Perry, the Chapmans etc, got its teeth into it.

 

[Spike413]

Galliano said in an interview for ShowStudio.com that for his first collection at Dior, s/s 97 Haute Couture, he wanted to achieve a kind of (Giovanni) Boldini silhouette which is a very subtle hourglass, nipped in waist, softened bust, elongated skirt, accentuated hips.....

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[Mr-Dale]

Oh my God, those paintings are so beautiful ^^ I want them in my room, absolutely gorgeous.

To stay a bit with Galliano, his latest collection was all Andy Warholl, so that fits here perfectly:

Pitty I can't find no detail shots of these and more prints from the show...

www.style.com

 

[Spacemiu]

Undercover, inspired by Jan Svankmajer (Czech Surealist Director)

 

[Ella]

In an interview with Yves Saint Laurent he said that inspiration for his collections were from Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Bonnard, Léger, Pop-Art, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Van Gogh etc. (Many examples have already been posted here)

YSL Haute Couture (Spring 2002) inspired by Van Gogh

YSL Haute Couture (Spring 2002) inspired by Picasso

YSL Haute Couture (Spring 2002) pop-art inspired

Great thread by the way!

 

[Ella]

YSL Haute Couture (Spring 2002) inspired by Matisse (The painting was posted above)

 

[travolta]

spacemiu, awesome socks!!

 

[taz]

i love the MATTISE inspired jewelery in Cécile & Jeanne boutique at Faborge St. Honore, it is my favorite spot in Paris , i can spend hours looking at these charming peices.


have u experinced the Cécile & Jeanne boutique in Paris?

 

[Tinuviel]

Those socks & eyeballs remind me of Beetlejuice somehow.

These illustrations by Leon Bakst inspired Phoebe Philo's prints for the Chloe 2002 Fall collection.

 

[jennifer~]

A blouse from Viktor & Rolf, fall 2000 (notably their ready-to-wear debut).

And the inspiration behind it: a Franz Gertsch painting from 1975.

Runway photos are mysteriously absent from all the usual sources; my apologies.

 

[arlekindearrabal]

i loved that philip treacy hat collection... campbell on campbell

i know the s/s 02 balenciaga collection was inspired partly by liberty prints, but they reminded me a lot of gustav klimt's work:

 

[LolitaLuxe]

more andy

warhol @ stephen sprouse

 

[travolta]

^ dig the sunglasses in the first pic, especially w/ that open mouthed expression

edit: open mouthed wonderment. i could see the set either being completely blown out w/ white light or large plastic ferns in the background like a kistch garden.

silver foil ferns, very 'factory-like'

 

[mishahoi]

i love it when the inspiration from a piece of art becomes an actual, structured, piece of clothing.. and not just a big print on some fabric. some of these are beautiful...thanks for all the pics, guys

 

[travis_nw8]

THE MOST FAMOUS CONCEPTUAL ART CLOTHING PIECE IN THE WORLD

Back in 2000, New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art welcomed home a touring exhibition known as The Warhol Look,which focused on the late artist Andy Warhol’s contributions to the world of fashion.

One of the pieces featured was Warhol’s infamous Campbell Soup Dress of 1966-1967. At the time it was introduced to the public, the paper dress (content: 80% cellulose, 20% cotton) was a nod towards Warhol’s seminal pop art print of the soup cans and, at the same time, a distinct tweaking to the disposable and rather self-centered mores which existed at the time.

Described by the Warhol camp as the ‘Pop Art Souper Dress’, it was sent to the lucky purchaser for the mere price of $11.00 and came packaged in its own plastic bag with a matching ‘Souper Hat’ and instructions for care. And today? Just recently, a Warhol Campbell Soup dress was sold by New York’s Sotheby’s Auction House for $6,900.