Long before Yves Saint Laurent’s “Mondrian” dress in 1965, art was already obsessed with fashion—Édouard Manet painted women in voluminous ensembles in the 1800s, while Claude Monet created Camille, a painting of a woman in a green Victorian dress in 1866.
Long before Yves Saint Laurent’s “Mondrian” dress in 1965, art was already obsessed with fashion—Édouard Manet painted women in voluminous ensembles in the 1800s, while Claude Monet created Camille, a painting of a woman in a green Victorian dress in 1866.
It is a confluence—and collision— of creativity that has been going on for decades. If a Monet seems a bit far-fetched for your pockets, fret not. Many galleries around town, and the Affordable Art Fair, feature contemporary pop art that embrace all things sartorial and designer—even if it sometimes borders on OTT.
Take fashion obsessions beyond the wardrobe with resin-encased luxury brand paperbags and hyper-realist portraits of dandies that we’d want up on our art gallery of style.
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