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.
Exhibitions, commissions and artists whose work migrates into clothing, with honest reporting on when a collaboration is real and when it is licensing.
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.
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.