Fashion Vs. Art

Chanel Vs. Rawlings

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:58:00 +0000

Chanel Cruise Collection, detail, 2012/13

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John Rawlings, Vogue, 1953

more backstage Chanel here

Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:16:00 +0000

The fashion exhibition Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 will be open in London until January 2013. The exhibition features British designers such as Gareth Pugh, Zandra Rhodes, Jonathan Saunders, Hussein Chalayan, Giles Deacon, Erdem and others. More information here.

Daniel Jackson Vs...

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:21:00 +0000

Daniel Jackson's illustration inspired editorial for Dazed & Confused June 2012

Vs. René Gruau

Vs. Raf Simmons' Picasso for Jil Sander S 2012

Vs. Patrick Nagel

Loris Azzaro: Now Vs. Then

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:01:00 +0000

Loris Azzaro, by new creative director Mathilde Castello Branco, F 2012

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Loris Azzaro by Loris Azarro

See the new blog launched by the label here

See the Azzaro book by Aussoline here

Fashion Vs. Art: Barbara Keal

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

more felt work here

Fashion Vs. Art: Tim Gutt

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:54:00 +0000

Fashion meets art in Tim Gutt's editorial for Vogue UK June 2012, Paper Plates

Fashion Vs. Art Now on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:09:00 +0000

Finally a Twitter for all Fashion Vs. Art posts, follow us here

Sarah Burton Vs. Li Xiaofeng

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:05:00 +0000

Sarah Burton for Alexander McQuenn

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Artist Li Xiaofeng

Fashion Vs. Art: Anni Leppälä

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:42:00 +0000

more here

Comme des Garcons: White Drama

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000

While the Paris Palais Galliera, which houses the Musee de la Mode et du Textile, is under renovation, the city is offering satellite fashion exhibitions at the docks near Gare d'Austerlitz. Above and below Comme des Garcons: White Drama from SS 2012. Designs from the Balenciaga archives are also presented in a separate space. These exhibitions are open until October. More information here.

Fashion Vs. Art: Mary McFadden

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Above the new book on Mary McFadden by Rizzoli. McFadden worked for Dior and Vogue before designing her collections emphasizing fortuny pleating and accessories.

Below her accessories on Iman. See an interview with McFadden about her own jewelry collection here.

L'Enfant Terrible: Olivier Mosset

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Only Olivier Mosset can get away with presenting blank canvases and a motorcycle. This summer at Kunsthalle Zurich.

Below, my exhibition with Mosset in the Alps, more here.

Fashion Vs. Art: Walter Albini

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:31:00 +0000

Albini, above right, was Europe's Halston. Born in Italy, and a resident in Paris, he was a lover of parties and ladies fashion. He began with a sophisticated look that developed into draping, glam and a 1920s revival.

Albini Vs. Halston

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:30:00 +0000

Albini

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Halston by Kenneth Paul

Albini

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Halston

Albini

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Halston, Polaroid by Warhol, 1977

Vintage Cacharel by Sara Moon

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Fashion Vs. Art: Inés Figaredo

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:06:00 +0000

more here

Sølve Sundsbø for Dazed & Confused

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:51:00 +0000

June 2012

Lily Cole Vs. Venus

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:49:00 +0000

Lily Cole for DeBeers, 2005

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The Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1485

Dree Hemingway Vs. Venus here

Bourdin du Jour

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:56:00 +0000

Chanel Cruise 2013

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:15:00 +0000

The collection was presented at the restored Trois Fontaines Bosquet of Versailles below.

More photos here

Cohen Vs. Larsson

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:58:00 +0000

Above Ari Seth Cohen's new book Advanced Style

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Andreas Larsson, Stunning Old Lass for Ponystep SS 2012

Fashion Vs. Art: Secret Garden Versailles

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:49:00 +0000

Inez & Vinoodh for Dior

Fashion Vs. Art: Doubles

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:41:00 +0000

When I first started looking at the intersection of fashion and art in photography, I discovered many doubles. There is a precedent of duality throughout art history. In fashion photography, the contemporary double suggests the practice of imitation, the exploration of the other self, sexuality and much more.

"We are at a point of excess with imitation. Everything can be duplicated and imitated. Whatever it is that we have culturally considered with virtual reality, the simulacra, the mirror image, the other, has been made even more apparent and mundane by something like reality tv where we watch reflections of 'ourselves.'"

"But what we imitate is not so much one another, or even the culture industry. We are imitating indeterminate images, fantasies really, and those images are an imitation of real life itself - that is the rupture to imitation. Reality inspires the mirage and we imitate the mirage to bring it back to reality."

Text excerpts from RKW, here

Photos Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton for Numero 133

Steven Meisel Dior Vs. Chris Von Wangenheim Dior

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Steven Meisel for Dior, 2012

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Chris von Wangenheim for Dior, 1976

Chanel at La Mistralée Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (RKW) — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:56:00 +0000

Shop Chanel in St. Tropez, now through October, more at Chanel News