Lubna SethiFashion n Art - Who Influences Whom!!
The relationship between fashion and art has long been a debated topic both within fashion studies and art criticism.
It emerged at the origin of modern fashion when the couturiers used to perceive and describe themselves as artists.
Since then, such relationship has often been questioned by those who saw fashion as a mainly commercial activity and, by contrast, art as a totally free individual expression.
However, the connection between fashion and the visual arts is very clear: like art works, clothing items are designed and manufactured according to formal rules in order to attain standards of aesthetic beauty and harmony.
When, around the 1960s, Pop Art provoked and radically changed the art world, the encounter between fashion and art, formal aesthetic research and commercial promotion opened up an ideal space where various forms of cross fertilization between the two domains became possible.
The conference proposes an exploration of the relationship between fashion and art in order to identify the most innovative scenarios.
It emerged at the origin of modern fashion when the couturiers used to perceive and describe themselves as artists.
Since then, such relationship has often been questioned by those who saw fashion as a mainly commercial activity and, by contrast, art as a totally free individual expression.
However, the connection between fashion and the visual arts is very clear: like art works, clothing items are designed and manufactured according to formal rules in order to attain standards of aesthetic beauty and harmony.
When, around the 1960s, Pop Art provoked and radically changed the art world, the encounter between fashion and art, formal aesthetic research and commercial promotion opened up an ideal space where various forms of cross fertilization between the two domains became possible.
The conference proposes an exploration of the relationship between fashion and art in order to identify the most innovative scenarios.
