Fashion&Art
Is fashion art? Or art fashion?
If I had the answer to that question, I’d be as famous as Schopenhauer. I could give it a try though. I think I’ll surf through the upcoming exhibitions that examine crossovers of these two areas.
After Berlin, the successful Max Mara 101801 camelhair coat, a Made- in-Italy icon, has arrived in Japan (could it beat out a kimono competition?). It’s showing at Tokyo’s Mori Art Center Gallery until 25 November. In the 50s, Dior predicted that this coat, taken from menswear, would become a fashion must. Ipse dixit.
ControModa is the title of the permanent contemporary fashion collection of the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, which is now showing in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi until 20 January 2008.It offers Issey Miyake’s peahen or lamp women, Armani’s unstructured outfits and Thierry Mugler’s spiderwomen. It’s a mix of polyhedral shapes (some appear physically impossible) and experimental colors. After having seen this gallery, I’m even more confused now!
Examining Ritorno alle Origini, the exhibition dedicated to Capucci at Villa Bardini in Florence, is like looking at Kandinsky paintings or origami sculptures. You can see why Capucci has received an honorary degree in Design from La Sapienza University in Rome.
Perhaps you can understand the mystery of women on the street dressed in bolted-on suits if you see “The Golden Age of Couture - Paris and London 1947-1957” at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London until 6 January 2008.
Well, it looks like art and fashion have been united. After my virtual tour, I do believe that fashion is a form of art.
What do you think?
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