Likewise, David Hockney is known to sport vivid, color-blocked outfits.
Jean-Michel Basquiat paired designer suit jackets with worn-in streetwear, Frida Kahlo wore traditional Mexican garb rife with symbolism, and Georgia O’Keeffe opted for minimal silhouettes with Southwestern accessories. Some artists channel their visual aesthetic into their looks. Photo by Catwalking/Getty Images.Īrtists’ personal style, intentionally or not, often becomes part of their brand. Lee Miller with the essentials of Life, cigarette, wine and petrol, Weimar, by David Sherman, 1945.Ī model walks the runway at the Celine Autumn Winter fashion show during Paris Fashion Week, 2014. “ doing things which were quite radical at the time, like wearing men’s clothes, but which today seem quite normal,” Philo said after the show. But designer Phoebe Philo specifically named Miller’s boots as the starting point for the collection. Miller’s streamlined, “utility chic” wardrobe, as Newman called it, which she wore while on assignment for Vogue during World War II, has been referenced in fashion multiple times. The inspiration for the autumn 2014 Céline show was more precise: the muddy, masculine boots of war photographer Lee Miller, from the famous image of her sitting defiantly in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub just hours before his death. The looks bring to mind former Interview editor Bob Colacello’s recollection of the photographer when they met in 1971: “He was pretty but tough, androgynous and butch,” Colacello told Vanity Fair in 2016. They were also styled to look like the late artist, with soft, curly hair and leather muir caps-an ode to Mapplethorpe’s personal and artistic interest in S&M. The male models wore billowing button-down shirts printed with Mapplethorpe’s black-and-white photographs. Raf Simons did both in his 2017 spring menswear collection, a collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Photo by Antonello Trio via Getty Images.įashion houses often pay homage to famous artworks and movements-Moschino under Jeremy Scott’s direction heavily references Pop Art-but they’ve also tried to capture that ineffable je ne sais quois of the artists behind the works. “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los AngelesĪ model is seen ahead of the Raf Simons fashion show during Pitti 90, Florence, Italy, 2016. “What they wear while doing these things is interesting, too.” Newman’s book dissects the fashion choices of major artists and traces how their art and personal style has been appropriated or emulated on runways and in wider visual culture. “The job of artists is to critique culture, unload their psyches into their work, and make edifying masterpieces the rest of us can revere,” wrote Terry Newman, author of Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore (2019). Artists, after all, are keenly considerate of color and form how they dress can be a telling sign of their creative innerworkings.
Why do we care what famous artists wear? It might seem silly to look back to the Old Masters to appreciate their outfits, but 20th- and 21st-century artists have often found themselves the muses of major fashion houses-and, more recently, fodder for Pinterest inspiration boards. Dusan Reljin, Marina Abramović and Crystal Renn for Vogue Ukraine, 2014, from “Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore,” 2019.
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