Her Biggest Fan
Amedeo Modigliani’s modern aesthetic was characterized by his subject’s mask-like faces, which drew inspiration from African art, and his elongated figures. In 1919, Modigliani painted the polish woman Lunia Czechowska, in Woman with a Fan. Two years before the painting was stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Peter Lindbergh photographed Julianne Moore wearing a marigold Calvin
Name of the Game
In the fall of 2012, Yves Saint Laurent announced the appointment of its new Creative Director, Hedi Slimane, who subsequently renamed the brand as a part of a creative overhaul. Silmane rebranded Yves Saint Laurent to Saint Laurent Paris, garnering great criticism and industry backlash on the grounds that Slimane
15th-Century Muse
Robert Campin is often acknowledged as the first of the great Flemish painters, praised for his most-well known work of art, The Mérode Altarpiece, which is housed at The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alexander McQueen looked to Campin’s The Thief to the Left of Christ, in his FW 1997 collection entitled
Out of Print
An offshoot from the Vienna Secession, The Wiener Werkstätte was developed in 1903, under the direction of Josef Hoffman. Founded on the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, the workshop’s mission was to develop fine, well-made products in a wide range of goods to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.
Catch the Wave
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of Japan’s most well-known prints of the Edo Period. The woodblock print (a method also used to print textiles) features a tremendous wave towering over a seemingly minuscule Mount Fuji, a mountain that is traditionally presented as a compositional focus. For Christian Dior’s Spring 2007 couture show, John