Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto,
A model wears a Toni Maticevksi gown and hat by milliner Jill Humphries at Melbourne Fashion Week’s Fashion x Art experience.In another, a woman dressed as an artist’s model wore a fluorescent neon dress by J’Aton Couture while illustrators around her drew their vision of her. And if fashion is now making its imprint on art, the reverse is true, too. David Bromley is one of the latest Melbourne artists to lift his work from the canvas and put it onto clothing. A collaboration with label Review for spring/summer uses some of his best-known imagery for a range of pieces, including dresses, knitwear and shoes.
Even Chadstone the Fashion Capital has gotten in on the act; previously they joined forces with the NGV to have part of the KAWS exhibition on site, and also blended fashion with art when they hosted the Louis Vuittonexhibition after its runs in cities including Hong Kong and Shanghai. Chadstone’s centre manager, Michael Whitehead, says “Melbourne is so fashion-conscious that it was a natural extension to push into that art space as well”.Sarah Rovis, the managing director at Mimco, would agree.
I got no love affair with Melbourne's art culture. I woke up in the 70s when they paid $25K for the Yellow Peril. Total crap.