Project name |
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970 |
Organisation |
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Persons |
Chris Townsend |
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Country |
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Period |
2002 |
URL |
http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Arts-Seduction-Fashion-Since/dp/0500283834 |
Tags |
haute couture,
advertising,
mass media,
soho,
original,
creative,
young artists,
images,
vogue,
kate moss,
photography,
book,
designer,
fashion,
model,
art,
new mix,
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Text |
From Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin's inspirational photography of the 1970s, through Kate Moss's recent collaborations with yBas and Nan Goldin for Vogue, to the use of reworked catwalk footage and mutilated magazine images by young artists, this crossover is fertile ground for the creative and the original. Whether covering an art installation in a SoHo boutique, Cindy Sherman's complicity with the tools of mass-media, a Keith Haring image advertising vodka, the use of street-art graffiti on a Louis Vuitton bag, or Tracey Emin as a Vivienne Westwood model, author Chris Townsend shows how the alluring, illusory faces of fashion and art are fused in the new mix.
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