A celebration of the collision of the fashion and art worlds in the past decade showcases partnerships between artists and fashion designers and explores themes of collaboration, exhibition, and the role of the media.
Collaboration between the high-art and fashion industries is the subject of this book, which unites coffee-table eye appeal with a text that looks at the increasing identification of art and fashion with each other in a hybrid industry united by high gloss, high profits, celebrity names, and an interest in voyeurism and attitude. Abundant color photographs showcase collaborations between Chanel and Cindy Sherman, Marc Jacobs and Juergen Teller, Stella McCartney and Jeff Koons, and so on. These images are very lavishly produced in the tradition of high-end fashion magazine shoots; some readers may consider the photographers and stylists to be the artists showcased in this volume. The book's first section deals with fashion as art, the second with artistic fashion collaborations, the third with fashion as exhibition, the fourth with new fashion media, and the final section with fashion, art, and architecture, another field with similar traditions and values. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
An international survey of how the worlds of fashion and art have brilliantly collided in the new millennium