{"id":60696,"date":"2017-12-28T10:47:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=60696"},"modified":"2019-06-19T07:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T07:50:18","slug":"art-fashion-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/art-fashion-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Art Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Yayoi Kusama Exhibition In Infinity in HAM, Helsinki. Image courtesy of Katja Nevalainen under creative commons<\/p>\n

F<\/span>ashion and art have always had a fabulous and fraught relationship. Many fashionistas claim not to \u201cget\u201d art whereas art world people often distance themselves from fashion for fear of art losing evergreen relevance. There are many examples of designers who\u2019ve become artists<\/span><\/a> like Helmut Lang and Tom Ford.\u00a0<\/span>There are also many artists who have created fashion lines<\/span><\/a>, such as Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons. However, lately the line between the two has blurred into almost total invisibility.\u00a0<\/span>There\u2019s now plenty of designers who have also become artists and artists who are taking in the fashion world with open arms, hearts and wallets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Eckhaus Latta and Camper SS17. Styling: Avena Gallagher. Image: Rob Kulisek<\/p>\n

Eckhaus Latta<\/a><\/span>, for instance, who launched their label in 2011 consider their practice as both design and art. In their Los Angeles store they sell their conceptual fashion and simultaneously take part in visual art exhibitions. Their clothes can be seen simultaneously as sculptures and as sculptures than can be worn. Either way their pastel monotone biomorphic forms are visually striking. Also based in LA is the designer Bernhard Willhelm who\u2019s made his major jump into the world of art with his exhibition at the MOCA in 2015. Entitled \u201cBernhard Willhelm 3000: When Fashion Shows The Danger Then Fashion Is The Danger\u201d, the work which was conceived in collaboration with Jutta Kraus functioned as a sculptural installation. It featured Willhelm\u2019s AW15\/16 collection and including video, photography, was a meditation on the future of commerce and a \u201cthinking-forward exhibition.\u201d The aesthetic borrowed as much from his own designs as it did from \u201cpost-internet art\u201d culminating in an environment that was both salacious and painterly. Berlin-based collective BLESS also take a similar approach.<\/span>
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