Art/Fashion in the 21st Century - Hardcover

Mitchell Oakley Smith; Alison Kubler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500239096 ISBN 13: 9780500239094

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

A celebration of the collision of the fashion and art worlds in the past decade showcases partnerships between artists and fashion designers and explores themes of collaboration, exhibition, and the role of the media.

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Review:

Art and fashion have always gone hand in hand, but recent years have seen such a flurry of brilliant creative collaborations between the two worlds, it's hard to keep track of who's doing what. Even when artists and designers are not making beautiful music together, they're never entirely separate disciplines. Just look at Dutch label Viktor & Rolf and its sculptural approach to clothing, or artist Cindy Sherman's use of clothing as disguise in her conceptual self portraits. New book Art / Fashion in the 21st Century (Thames & Hudson) is stuffed with photography showcasing the most impressive art and fashion collaborations from the last decade, with work from fashion houses Balenciaga, Chanel and Prada, and artists Zaha Hadid, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince, and a foreword by famous fashion muse and art lover Daphne Guinness. --Vanity Fair

Handsomely illustrated ... with provocative, beautiful and occasionally preposterous images by the likes of Cindy Sherman and Juergen Teller. --The Daily Telegraph

Australia-based Oakley Smith and Kubler chart the rise of the rapidly growing interplay between fashion and art over the past decade with 250 colour photographs of cool collaborations. Does fashion want to be taken seriously? Does art want an invite to all the best parties? Who knows. In the fashion corner we have the likes of Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Hussein Chalayan and Viktor & Rolf and for art s sake, names such as Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin and Zaha Hadid. Living, breathing art/fashion collaboration Daphne Guinness has written the foreword. --Financial Times

... a fascinating look at the relationship between interlocking worlds. --Harper's Bazaar

A stunning new book book by Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler, Art/Fashion in the 21st Century explores the symbiotic relationship between fashion and art. Featuring interviews with leading figures from the worlds of art and fashion and 238 colour illustrations, this is one for the Eames coffee table. --Wall Street Journal

Ravishing ... insightful and engaging. --Fad.com

However much I enjoy a book, it's not often I need time out between chapters to recover from the rush of adrenalin, envy and excitement. That is the effect of the coolly titled Art / Fashion in the 21st Century. Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler come with impeccable credentials for a project of this magnitude... Oakley Smith and Kubler's partnership has produced a publication in which words and images come together in a perfectly orchestrated fusion. --Sydney Morning Herald

Does fashion influence art or does art influence fashion? It's a bit of both, according to Brisbane art historian Alison Kubler, co-author of a new book exploring the correlation between the two worlds. Art/Fashion in the 21st Century shows, though a series of essays and a swag of colourful photos, how art and fashion work together. --The Courier Mail

An insightful new book that explores the perfect-storm relationship of art and fashion. This concise book of essays, profiles and imagery is a must-read for any fashion and art addict. --Harper's Bazaar Australia

Chart the close relationship between international artists and major fashion houses with this stylish work. Elle Australia

Fashion has been spinning out of its box to play witty and exciting games with art and architecture, new media, photography, who and what you will. Daphne Guinness, enmeshed in the most engaging aspects of fashion, writes the foreword. Discover fashion's reinventive dance. Take your partners for the no-holds-barred ways to be 21st-century eye candy. Method: make fashion art and art fashion. Mix with the historic perfectionists of Paris. And rediscover Walter Van Beirendonck. --Vogue Living

2 creative industries (art and fashion) + 1 great quote by Oscar Wilde: 'One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art' + 1 foreword by Daphne Guinness + 2 Jeff Koons dresses x 6 designers 'in conversation' + 4 Louis Vuitton artist collaborations + 1 horse x 32 catwalk photographs + 1 Prada installation in the Texan desert = Art / Fashion in the 21st Century. --Elle

Catwalk fashion is often barmy, but to consider it unwearable may be missing the point. Art/Fashion in the 21st Century, a new book by Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler, explores how collaborations between designers and artists have merged the spheres of fashion and art. 'Fashion is staking a claim to the rarefied world of fine art via blockbuster museum exhibitions, since the phenomenal Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in 2011,' Oakley Smith explains. For Kubler: 'Fashion is as enduring as art for what it might tell us about history and how it might describe the zeitgeist.' --The Guardian

An inspirational overview of innovative designers (Alexander McQueen) and hot collaborations (Liam Gillick for Pringle of Scotland). It's a masterpiece. --Marie Claire

This book focuses on the lines between art and fashion, considering not just the garments themselves but also their place in the galleries, editorial and new media. As Daphne Guinness writes in her forward, 'The question is not whether an item is created to be interpreted as art, but whether its designer is considered to be deserving of an artist's status'. --Crafts

According to Oscar Wilde 'one should either be a work of art or wear a work of art'. But can they be one and the same thing? Certainly there's long been a crossover between art and fashion. Coco Chanel worked with artists such as Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. The interconnections have increased if anything, with fashion houses involving artists to refresh their image, as Art/Fashion in the 21st Century proves. Think Richard Prince customising Louis Vuitton. Which leads to the ultimate question: can fashion designers be artists in themselves? Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck thinks so: 'It's all about communication, and that's something fashion and art have in common.' --The Herald

After a season heavily inspired by art Miuccia's murals, Karl's Chanel gallery, Marc's memorable exit from LV was very artistic in it s own right - timing couldn't really be more appropriate for a book launch of art slash fashion. Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler's Art/Fashion in the 21st Century is an impressive archive of designers slash artists and their relationships, of course their are lots of colour pictures what is an art slash fashion book without. A foreword by the human embodiment of art slash fashion, Daphne Guinness is just so appropriate. --10 Magazine

About the Author:

Mitchell Oakley Smith is a journalist, editor, curator and author. He co-curated the events programme for `Fashion Icons: Masterpieces from the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris' at the Art Gallery of South Australia. He is the author of Art/Fashion in the 21st Century and Maticevski, both published by Thames & Hudson. Alison Kubler is Associate Curator at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Australia, and co-director of mc/k art consulting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0500239096
• ISBN 13: 9780500239094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320