Jonathan Anderson, the creative director of Loewe and his own label, JW Anderson, discusses the value of craft and why the art of the hand is having such a renaissance. How does art translate into our wardrobes? It’s also been an opportunity to talk to designers about more private passions. This Art of Fashion supplement revisits the influence of the visual arts within the dynamic realm of ready-to-wear. Feather-light tulles and laces conjured the spirit of the Impressionists, while mind-bending patterns and dazzling monochromatics evoked Op Art. When looking for the cultural threads that drew the looks together, one found both bold and deeply romantic influences. The catwalks recalled everything from the surreal works of Salvador Dalí, to the great sculptures of Richard Serra and the playful Pop Art of Andy Warhol. The AW16 collections took their inspiration from a diverse range of art. In the 1920s, Coco Chanel collaborated with Pablo Picasso when together they worked on costumes and backdrops for the Ballet Russes Sonia Delaunay designed clothes and textiles in tandem with her vivid artworks Yves Saint Laurent returned to art again and again throughout this career: in 1965, he drew on the bold abstractions of the Modernist painter Piet Mondrian to create a collection of six A-line dresses he was forever fixated by Yves Klein’s blue and, in 1980, created a couture collection after Henri Matisse’s cut outs. Art and fashion have forever been entwined.
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