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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 :-)

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The picture shows how artists inspire each other: Rick Owens, a fashion designer, puts a portrait of a poet, writer, singer Patti Smith on their clothes. Creates a series of garments inspired by Patti Smith.

I took this photo at Dover Street Market, New York.

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My participation in the Art Fast project, 2017

Natalie’s Creative Challenge

- Natalie Burlutskaya, Photographer and Art Curator, New York City

I’m a photographer and art curator producing art exhibitions embracing diversity of our planet and people. Transformation of a person in the ever-changing surroundings or under given circumstances, including people’s appearance and style, is one of the themes of my spectrum of interests.

During the 2017 Art Fast challenge I’m going to fast on (exclude) a variety of themes and stick to just one: Art + Fashion. The way people look is the easiest demonstration of certain social codes and a personal taste. The most creative objects and looks are often inspired by art - artists, artworks, or movements, such as pop art or minimalism. For example, we cannot underestimate Andy Warhol’s influence on fashion, lifestyle, and business.

I’m going to produce a series of photographs depicting art objects and styles inspired by a variety of art forms. At the end of the 9-day creative challenge I will present a project that will contain pictures, music, and other elements or objects

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A detail of Hadieh Afshani’s painting on a wood panel. Presented at the art residency “Daughters of Troy” - “The Persephone Project”, Governors Island, 2017.

This is part of the series of paintings talking about complex decisions women have to take. Based on Hadieh Afshani’s personal story.

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Balance

Balance is an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady; and/or a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.

“I feel like I can give a lot to younger painters by just telling them to relax.” - Elizabeth Peyton

“Find your eyes.” - Alec Soth

“Don’t get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... like the salt in your food.” - Yoko Ono

“Art is a balance between beauty and spirit.” - Eder Sanchez

Eder Sanchez, an architect turned digital artist, lived and worked in India for two years. After he had moved to London, he began to develop a new body of work using his obsessive taste for the spiritual form. 

He seeks harmony in non-visible and visible, physical and mental. Eder Sanchez means his artwork is meditative and would like others to feel the same: minimalistic style and composition allow to “stop time and quiet the mind”. Feelings and emotions can be expressed and balanced through a creative process and, as a result, in a finished artwork.

Eder Sanchez, “Safe”.

Eder Sanchez, “Hold”.

Eder Sanchez, “Weight”.

Eder Sanchez, “Depression”.

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Activeness

Activeness is producing an intended action or effect.

Active: expressing action as distinct from mere existence or state.

“I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.” ― Ahmet Ertegun

“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”          ― Bono

“Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.”                     ― Salma Hayek

*Activeness, artwork by Sigita Dackeviciute

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Passivity

Passivity is allowing others to do things to you without complaining or pushing back. 

“It is passivity that dulls feeling.” ― Susan Sontag

“Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.” ― Noam Chomsky

“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.” ― Virginia Woolf

“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.” ― Robert Greene

“You can't be neutral on a moving train.” ― Howard Zinn

*Passivity, artwork by Britt Ingrid Persson

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Valid in many cases :-)

FOXGLOVE & FAWN/ LOVES/ SATAN

ARTIST/ Neck Face

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Man Ray’s birthday is today, August 27 (1890-1976). 

Total and forever inspiration, a pioneer of a contemporary mixed media direction who experimented with various techniques, an artist who showed us ‘rayogrammes’, a man obsessed by women and female eroticism. All in one, Man Ray.

Find out more: https://reartiste.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/inspiration-man-ray/

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I saw this absolutely beautiful sculpture of the sleeping hermaphrodite at Musée du Louvre in 1999 and I - mistakenly - thought that our ancestors were that much tolerant and open-minded. Not exactly so and everywhere. It turns out that the birth of intersex people was seen as a bad omen; those born with ambiguous genitals were usually killed. However, “In imperial Rome, sculptures like this filled the homes and gardens of wealthy people, said Carlos Picón, curator of Greek and Roman art at the Met. They were seen as light amusements, signifiers of good taste.”

The source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/27/arts/design/statue-hermaphrodite.html

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A modern crown, plus all other awesomeness. Fashion+Art. 

Just love coming across beautifully shot editorials featuring #istillloveyounyc along side @chromat_party and my life wife @fleatherfox for @ladygunn HAPPY MONDAY!

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“Masquerade is always an art of becoming”.

The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is always an art of becoming.

Nick Cave’s costumes, known as “Soundsuits” from the sounds they make when performed, draw from African and Caribbean masquerade traditions. Cave’s costumes enable performers to be seen free from the constraints of being placed in categories, becoming another body able to transform their environment into an otherworldly space. Cave’s Soundsuits may also serve as a sort of armor, protecting against the violence of racial stereotypes and giving their wearers an outsize, fanciful, and transcendent presence.

Posted by Kevin D. Dumouchelle and Meghan Bill Nick Cave (American, born 1959). Soundsuit, 2008. Brooklyn Museum. © Nick Cave

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Animated gifs with a graphic twist. I should learn to create such images ;-)

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Ted Gahl. His series of mixed media (including wood carving) artworks about devils' lifestyle is fun and cute. On view at One River, Englewood, NJ.

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The viewing angle does matter: this mural is created on the ceiling - you're looking from below; or one can just spread out on the floor for a better experience! 😊 Artwork: "Time", by Jose Maria Sert

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How to Get Your Piece of Electric Objects’ New $100,000 Art Fund http://ift.tt/1UbGQ7Q

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We take a look back at #Pier54, a #HighLineCommission featuring the work of 27 female artists, documented by photographer @lizlig Pictured left to right is N. Dash, Marie Lorenz, Stephanie Harris, Aki Sasamoto, Francesca Benitez, Marianne Vitale, Carol Bove, Jill Magid, Virginia Overton, and Mika Tajima. (at The High Line)