Art
The Unnatural Portraits: Cindy Sherman's Fashion Photography as Critique From the Inside
Commissioned by Interview in 1983–84 and again in 1993–94, Cindy Sherman used fashion's own formats to expose how artificial the fashion image really is.
Art
Art covers exhibitions, commissions and the artists whose vocabulary keeps turning up in collections. Coverage names movements, materials and editions, and separates genuine collaboration from a licensing deal with a signature attached. Written for readers who move between galleries and fashion with equal fluency.
Art
Dots, Taken Seriously: Yayoi Kusama From the Village Happenings to Louis Vuitton
The polka dot carried Yayoi Kusama from 1960s New York provocations to a 2012 collaboration with Louis Vuitton — a fifty-year argument for pattern as a worldview.
Art
Structure, Not Decoration: Anni Albers and the Textile Lesson Fashion Hasn't Finished
Anni Albers treated weaving as an engineering discipline, from the Bauhaus workshop to her 1949 MoMA exhibition and the 1965 book On Weaving — a reading of cloth that fashion still borrows without fully crediting.
Art
When Picasso Dressed a Dancer: The Ballets Russes and the Costume as Modern Art
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes gave the century's painters a stage — Picasso's Parade of 1917 and Matisse's Le Chant du rossignol of 1920 remain the sharpest proof that a costume can carry a movement.
Art
The Dress as Canvas: Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dalí and Fashion's Surrealist Years
Between 1936 and 1938, Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí turned garments into pictures — most famously the 1937 lobster dress photographed on Wallis Simpson by Cecil Beaton.
Art
Before the Factory: Andy Warhol's Shoe Decade, When a Hand Drawn Line Paid the Rent
Ten years of commercial illustration, capped by the 1955 portfolio À la recherche du shoe perdu, taught Andy Warhol the mechanics of repetition that Pop Art would later inherit.