This picture is part of Gosha Rubchinsky’s fashion campaign inspired by music. In many ways, fashion is inspired and draws ideas from visual arts, music, theatre. The most revolutionary fashion designers are not ‘taylors’ - they are artists. The way they create their garments and accessories make us view the clothes not as just a piece of fabric but as a piece of art.
Gosha Rubchinsky is a designer represented by the big fashion brand, Comme des Garcons led by Rei Kawakubo. Gosha Rubchinsky is a young guy from Russia who dared to bring real streetwear to the podiums. His recent collection is devoted to the 20th anniversary of the first album launch of “Mummiy Troll”, a breakthrough Russian band. One of the song in the album was about Vladivostok, the beautiful city located on the ocean, at the Russia’s Far East.
Fashion designer Rick Owens created a clothes line featuring Patti Smith, a singer, poet, writer, the muse and support for the famous genius Robert Mapplethorpe.
Patti Smith, an inspiration for Rick Owens:
Sculpture influence: for her new perfume, fashion designer Carolina Herrera created a bottle shaped like a high heel shoe. Regardless of whether you like the fragrance or not, this bottle is an artsy collectible piece:
A lot of theatre professionals and theatre goers adore Mark Chagall’s input to the modern opera culture. He painted the interior of an opera theatre in Paris and created murals for the Metropolitan Opera. His art pieces and contemporary street art murals - don’t they inspire each other? :-)
Brooklyn accessory designer brand, ISLY, is inspired by pop art. The laser cut acrylic pieces of jewelry are memes, symbols, objects - in two words, statement pieces.
Street art, pop art, even contemporary graphic design trends give me ideas for pairings and compositions in my outfits, home decor preferences, and gave me the idea to start creating a photo series where the pictures themselves look like collages made of various objects and fashion elements. In September 2017, I pursued a 9-day challenge of the Art Fast project to start creating a photo series devoted to fashion elements as objects for being portrayed. Here’s some first dibs.
More of inspirational pics - street art, parks, fun shops:
This last photo is taken in front of the duo How & Nosm’ spacious mural. The outfit I found and chose for the trip to the Coney Island Art Walls was picked deliberately - to be in tune with the local ambience :-) We should use our sense of humor more often :-)
