Textiles of historic traditional compositions and unparalleled beauty have been a marker of our time, and in some cases are modernized in transforming identity and culture.
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Frieze Frame: eye catching moments, fashion, and art at Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles
Art fairs are a creative hub, not solely for art but for fashion, too. Both, visually stimulating, heighten the overall cultural experience.
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Beyond the Art | A few fashion moments at Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Art fairs thrive when visitors experience emotional moments of engagement with the art and a sense of camaraderie among other attendees.
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High Fashion in the Alley – a behind-the-scene look
The experience of a fashion showcase doesn’t always come in a neat package of theatrical runway drama, museum exhibitions, or retail display windows. Fashion in the alley has a personality, energy, and engagement all of its own when witnessed in “the alley” as the behind-the-scene back stage to a fashion show.
Read moreFashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
Rhonda P. Hill
Fashion and Society – A Constant State of Interpretation | 배혜진 HYEE JIN BAE, An Artist’s Perspective
Fashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
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Chagall – Fusion of Design: Costume, Performance and Visual Art
By engaging both the visual and the performing arts, it also fosters a dialogue that reaches across the disciplines of art, music, theater, dance, and even fashion design. – Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Marc Chagall, Russian born artist, known for his figurative and narrative art, had a far-reaching engagement with music […]
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Color! Have No Fear
In fashion, do we produce and consume too much of the color black? Do you know why black is used in the branding of Chanel, YSL, and Armani Exchange? How does the color spectrum affect consumer behavior?
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Skip The Landfill, Create The Art
Up to 95% of the textiles that are LAND-FILLED each year could be reused or recycled, according to Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles [SMART] One day you will have no use for what you wear. It could be in a few months or a few years. Where will you dispose of it? You say you […]
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Discarded Bits of Aluminum Create a Textile Work of Art
Recycle + UP-CYCLE = Metal Cloth Art Sustain the earth, move towards zero waste.
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Take a LOOK. . .The History and High Fashion of Menswear | ‘Reigning Men’ Exhibition
Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715-2015, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [ LACMA] Exhibition, explores the history of men’s fashionable dress. Spanning 3 centuries of men’s fashion, this exhibition explores the looks of “dandy” to “mod” to “ultra chic” and how political and cultural influences shaped fashionable dress for men. 200 looks brilliantly curated, […]
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Oscar de la Renta, The Exhibition, Through My Eyes as a Visual Artist
I do not deal in trends. I deal in emotions. It’s about the emotion fashion gives you. – André Leon Talley, former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, curator Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective The glamorous flow and flair of Oscar de la Renta. This de Young Museum, Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective, exhibition generated […]
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The Art of Costuming. . .A Conversation With Alex Jaeger
What is the magic behind the art of costuming? . . .it’s magical by its very nature. In doing my research I learn about different cultures, different times. I work with and learn from all kinds of creative people and then create a magical experience for the audience. What could be better? – Alex Jaeger, […]
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The Parallels of Fashion Design and Art
There is a strong parallel between the fashion industry and the art world. Emerging fashion designers and up and coming artists are mixing up the game and clearing the way for a new set of standards, aesthetics, and innovation. They are as significant as their established counterparts in making an impact to culture and history […]
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‘High Style’| Masterworks of Fashion That Defined Cultural Changes
When fashion articulates a new paradigm for style, transfiguring the norm with an expressive potency, great fashion attains covetable status and everlasting importance. – Marnie Fogg, author of When Fashion Really Works The everlasting importance of the most influential American and European designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, Gilbert Adrian, and Charles […]
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The Oxymoron in “China: Through the Looking Glass”
As an artist slowly venturing herself into the mystical energy of Yin and Yang, the dualities of life and fascinating traditions of calligraphy and ink painting, I can’t help but to use this lens to analyze the latest exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC on China. The Met’s “China: Through the Looking Glass” should […]
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The Power of Creative Simplicity | Andy Warhol: Shadows
Inspired by a simple concept and powerfully executed ensemble of work – Andy Warhol: Shadows exhibition | MOCA [Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]. Be inspired, EDGE network, by Andy Warhol’s vision, technique, and statement of this series of silk screened paintings. Creative simplicity, sometimes the hardest to achieve, can have the most profound and haunting impact […]
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EDGE at Fashioned In America | Fashion Exhibition
The power of fashion lies in its power to transform identity and culture. There is a global phenomenon of fashion exhibitions at elite institutions the likes of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Phoenix Art Museum is currently exhibiting, Fashioned in America, a fashion exhibition […]
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EDGE at Out of the Great Wide Open
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Sir Francis Bacon
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inspiración. . .un lienzo en blanco
I travel for inspiration, visiting historic sites and ancient cities; I do so to remove myself from the current season, empty my mind and work from a blank space. – Marion Ayonote, Footwear Designer |a quote from EDGE talks to Marion Ayonote Inspiration can be taking in what’s around you in the world, observing the […]
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Fashion + Art, EDGE Visual Artist Look Book
Art is Art. Fashion is Fashion. However, Andy Warhol proved that they can exist together. – Karl Lagerfeld Fashion is instant language, like art. Fashion + Art share the spotlight in so many ways: Inspire – Artists and Designers inspire each other. Create – The artistry of fashion design and the art making of ‘the […]
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EDGE at 100 Grand Art Exhibition | Sullivan Goss Gallery
Art + culture + fashion = a creative mix of expression. The sixth annual 100 Grand [100 Works of Art for $1,000 or Less] opening exhibition was a celebration of the accomplishments of emerging and established artists.
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EDGE at Rebar Art Exhibition
An enchanted evening at the opening reception of Rebar, a solo show of Erik ReeL paintings, Friday 7 November 2014, Museum of Ventura County Tool Room Gallery, [a Coastal California Art Exhibition event].
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EDGE at Rauschenberg Exhibition | Gagosian Gallery
I like seeing people using materials that one’s not accustomed to seeing in art. That has a particular value. New materials have fresh associations, physical properties and qualities that have built into them the possibility of forcing you or helping you do something else. — Robert Rauschenberg
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