In the 1940’s Dior used to baptize his dresses with the names of his artist friends, such as Matisse or Picasso; in the 1960’s Yves Saint Laurent was an art collector and chose Mondrian as source of inspiration for one of his most famous collections. Today, the runway celebrates young street style talents next to great painters like Van Gogh and Henri Rousseau and the collaborations between contemporary artists and fashion houses are more and more common. Art and fashion have always shared an indissoluble bond and their marriage keeps creating the most beautiful clothes and accessories. Here are our favorites picks, selected in occasion of MiArt 2015, the Contemporary Art Fair to be held in Milan from April 9 to April 14.
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- For Prada Spring Summer 2014 collection Miuccia Prada asked to 6 young artist to decorate the dresses and the accessories.
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- Yayoi Kusama + Louis Vuitton collection (2012)
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- Jean Charles de Castelbajac Spring Summer 2014 collection, ispired by Jean Cocteau sketches.
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- Saoirse Ronan as Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1851-1852) on Vogue Dec 2011 by Steven Meisel
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- Chanel Spring Summer 2014. For the show, Karl Lagerfeld set his show in a vast “art gallery” created under the dome of the Grand Palais, and hung its walls with all manner of art pieces that riffed on Chanel icons, all made by himself.
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- A cloche hat by Elsa Schiaparelli, italian designer strongly inspired by Surrealism.
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- Hermès Spring Summer 2014 collection, inspired by the work of the french painter Henry Rousseau.
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- The Rodnik Band by Phil Colbert. Warhol’s Tomato Soup Dress on the left; a dress inspired by Duchamp’s Fontana masterpiece on the right.
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- Sergio Rossi Mephis inspired collection (2013). The Memphis Group was an Italian design and architecture group founded in Milan by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 that designed Postmodern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects from 1981 to 1987.
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- Marni + Rop Van Mierlo
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- Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian collection, 1965
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- The super famous Mondrian Collection by Yves Saint Laurent (1965), inspired by the coloured paints of the artist.
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- Rodarte Spring Summer 2012 collection, ispired by Van Gogh paintings.
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- Yves Saint Laurent portrait by Andy Warhol.