Reviews for Fashion and Surrealism - Richard Martin

The average rating for Fashion and Surrealism - Richard Martin based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-07 00:00:00 Salvador Silva A visual feast. Lavishly illustrated with both surrealist art (Magritte, Dali, Man Ray, de Chirico, Breton, Cocteau, Ernst) and artist-designer collaborations and inspirations, the borders between genres become very blurred. Schiaparelli, the first and foremost practitioner of surrealist visionary dress design, worked frequently with artists, including Dali and Jean Cocteau. Surrealist artists took on fashion advertisements, Vogue covers, fashion shoots, and window displays in stores like Saks and Bonwit Teller. They designed jewelry, hats. and furniture. And their obsessions with body parts, the transition between the real and the artificial, and the theatrical abstraction and ambiguity of forms and symbols are still strong influences for designers, magazines, photographers, and writers. Fashion feeds on illusion after all.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-02-04 00:00:00 Allen Myerson another one of my favorites