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 ART
Christie'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."
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