It’s Frieze Week in New York, meaning that artists, art dealers, and the art-obsessed have descended on the city. How to blend in with the crowd when you’re more of a Prada pro than a Whistler whiz? Let fashion’s latest artist collaborations help. Whether it’s a piece from Louis Vuitton’s Masters collection—a range of iconic images remade by Jeff Koons on LV Keepalls and Speedys—or Céline’s Yves Klein–inspired dresses, these are more than referential takes on fine art. They are art themselves.
While you’re wearing the newest Yayoi Kusama x X-Girl tee, you might also brush up on the historical intersection of both worlds. The dawn of high fashion in 1920s Paris coincided nicely with the city’s avant-garde art movement, led by the Cubists Picasso and Braque, along with the Dadaists and Surrealists Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dalí. Coco Chanel designed costumes for the Ballets Russes in the ’20s, as did Picasso, while her Paris-based peer and rival Elsa Schiaparelli teamed with Cocteau and Dalí on trompe l’oeil dresses and jackets. Fast-forward to the ’60s, and you have Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic Mondrian–inspired dresses. In the ’90s, Cindy Sherman starred in Comme des Garçons ads, and in the aughts, Richard Prince and Takashi Murakami remade Vuitton’s monogram purses. Today, enlisting an artist for a fashion line is par for the course—some knowledge to drop as you trot through galleries, dressed in your Frieze-approved finery.
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