Art to the masses: Bosch, Van Gogh and Warhol on clothes
Autumn dior will hold an unusual exhibition in Granville. The brand will show 70 works of impressionists, such as Degas and Renoir, and dresses inspired by these paintings. If once designers were inspired by the works of artists, now they are easily printed on clothes - completely or fragmentary. Prints with pictures are becoming incredibly popular: few people wonder whether it’s good or bad to wear a dress with a biblical storyline. Wonderzine lists 8 brands that have been applied to their clothes in recent seasons. In the material - the love of Givenchy religion and modern art Raf Simons.
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Carven / paintings by Hieronymus Bosch
The memory of the French couture house Carven was kept only thanks to a commercially successful line of fragrances, but the brand was revived by a young designer Guillaume Henri. In one of his first collections he used fragments of the triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" and the paintings "The Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things" by Hieronymus Bosch: images appeared on dresses and skirts. "Garden of Earthly Delights" - the most famous work of the Netherlands artist. Its central part, written based on the biblical texts, symbolizes the corrupted world. It is unlikely that Anna Dello Russo and Victoria Beckham thought about it, flashed in clothes with a central fragment of a triptych in street-style blogs.
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Dior / Early Andy Warhol
Christian Dior was in the world of art: he worked as a gallery owner and collaborated with artists, including the famous illustrator Rene Gruot. The current creative director of his brand, Raf Simons, continues the tradition. By the autumn-winter season, the Belgian designer drew prints in the style of the 1920s, and then noticed that they resembled the graphics of Andy Warhol in the late fifties. He decided to find the drawings of an apologist for pop art with the help of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts - as they appeared in the new Dior collection.
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Dolce & Gabbana / Mosaics of the Cathedral of Monreale
Sicily is the main source of inspiration for Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Designers love their homeland very much: their collections consist entirely of references to its culture. This time, the duet placed on dresses images of the Virgin and Jesus Christ with mosaics on the themes of the Old and New Testaments from the Cathedral of Monreale. The images of Italian designers are pompous as always: the clothes are complemented with gold crowns with stones and crits-earrings.
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Jean-Charles De Castelbajac /
"Ophelia" by John Everett Millet
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac can be considered not only a designer, but also an artist. He had several solo exhibitions: for the first time he showed collages, then - a series of gloomy drawings. Castelbajac often borrows other people's works for their collections. He printed on the clothes of the work of the American artist Keith Haring, and in the new season he turned to the Pre-Raphaelites: put Ophelia, the most famous painting by John Everett Millet, based on the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, on a pleated dress.
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Givenchy / William Bouguereau
Givenchy often refers to a religious theme, which is why the critic Tim Blanks, with irony, calls designer Ricardo Tishi an exemplary Catholic. For the current season's collection, Silence borrowed images of saints from William Bouguereau. Fragments of "Pietas" with Jesus Christ and variations of "Madonna" appeared on Givenchy men's bomber jackets and t-shirts.
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Natalia Valevskaya / Vinogradov and Dubosarsky
Natalia Valevskaya made evening dresses, but last year she decided to take up pret-a-porter and released a collection of things with paintings by Vladimir Vinogradov and Alexander Dubosarsky. Vinogradov and Dubosarsky have been working together since 1994 and are famous for thrash-painting on the subject of zero. Natalia Valevskaya dresses with naked girls are selling Tsvetnoy department store and wearing the fashion director of the store, Caroline Greer.
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Raf Simons / Brian Calvin
At first glance it may seem that the prints for the personalized line Raf Simons borrows from the archives of Wassily Kandinsky or Pablo Picasso. In fact, his own brand collaborates with young artists. For example, with Brian Calvin from Los Angeles, who began his career at about the same time as the designer - in the mid-nineties - and held a dozen solo exhibitions around the world. The Raf Simons T-shirts feature branded portraits of the artist: these are androgynous people with long faces, dull skin and accentuated with bright eyebrows and lips.
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Rodarte / "Sunflowers" by Vincent Van Gogh
In the context of the American fashion industry, sisters Kate and Laura Mullevi are rather unusual designers. They do not preach minimalism and functionality in clothing, as most of their colleagues do. Girls sew almost couture dresses, referring to art. In one season, designers print patterns from Chinese porcelain on clothes; in the other, they use one of the variants of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” as a print. In 1988, the outfit, inspired by the Netherlands artist, also showed Yves Saint Laurent, and in our time he was also quoted by Ashish Gupta, Caroline Herrera and Max Azria.