ART A LA MODEArmani at the Guggenheim, Louis Vuitton Art Talks, Cartier Foundation, the artful extravagant of Hussein Chalayan and Viktor & Rolf and artist-designed sneakers galore. In its annual Fashion Survey, published this September, ArtReview investigates the melding of two creative cultures.
FASHION LOVES ARTChristie's Philippe Garner takes a look at the current stock of fashion photographers and makes an educated guess on who will be the mainstays of tomorrow. "Think of Steven Meisel's stream of witty, wildly inventive and provocative stories for Italian Vogue, Steven Klein's tableaux starring Madonna or Tom Ford, and Juergen Teller's self-indulgent self-portraits with Charlotte Rampling and Cindy Sherman for a Marc Jacobs ad campaign and you will quickly realise that fashion has become the highly visible and commercially effective site for picture-making every bit as challenging as that being pursued by so many photographers who define themselves as independent artists."
Miuccia Prada talks about the influence of contemporary art on contemporary fashion. "Maybe art is not enough. Maybe it's not the place anymore for radicalism. My view is that right now we need thinkers, people who can analyse the current world."
J.J. Charlesworth argues that fashion and contemporary art are just having a fling. "The misunderstanding is that 'making art' is something you can only do in the 'art world'. But when you look closely at fashion/art crossovers, you realise that what they really do is perpetuate a dismal lie about the place of creativity in mass culture."
I'm on my way to the newsstand...
MORECredit: e-flux
Yeha! I love these days when I come home after a long day at work/in the library/on the road/wherever, totally exhausted and there's a cute little something waiting for me in the postbox ♥ Many, many thanks to fashionologie I LOVE YOUR SHIRT!!! So ladies go ahead and order yours!
Yeah. I love these black wide legged trousers!!! What an inspiration for tomorrows outfit and what a contrast to the skinny pants. I feel really weired switching from wide to skinny all the time. Everytime when I put on one of my skinny pants after wearing wider ones for a while I'm like "whoa did I gain weight or what????"
I just found this link on rojo-magazine. One of the coolest ideas which came across my way these days. "T-post is a lot like having a subscription to a magazine but instead of receiving magazines in your mailbox - you receive T-shirts. Every six weeks we take a news story that catches our attention and design a T-shirt based on that story. ... 
The story behind each shirt's design is printed on the inside of the T-shirt." MORE
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So Ladies, Now's the day we've been waiting for. But have we? Who actually is going to buy this tracksuit? I was like "hey, Adidas tracksuit Madonna is doing one for H&M. Guess that's pretty cool". But wait... "When am I going to wear it???" I've lived for 26 years without one, why should I start running around the Paris Hilton way? I'm gonna stay in bed tomorrow morning and save some money and energy for the Viktor&Rolf hunt.
Oi. This months Vogue Germany cover (Hana Soukupova - in case you didn't know) reminds me a bit of the Vogue UK's (Thanks to FAD for posting...). Nevermind. There're some really nice editorials inside:
The sweet fashionologie has a shop online now. There's just one item for sale so far and I've already ordered it ♥
TUSH 03/2006 proudly presents Liselotte Watkins. A reason for me to start a little research. The Swedish illustrator is one of the most succesfuls in the fashion and cosmetic industry. She has worked for several big names like Mac cosmetics, Victoria's secret, Max Mara, Anna Sui, to name a few. Unfortunately she's less known in Germany. 
While illustrating for the british, the american, the japanese and the italian VOGUE and for ELLE in the US, UK and France etc. she was never published in Germany until now in TUSH and Squint.
Actually I haven't been away... anyway. Now I'm back.
