Word: cocteau
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Collaboration between art and fashion has a long history. Designers like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior were famously inspired by artists like Jean Cocteau and Christian Bérard. But in the current age of opulence, in which contemporary artworks sell at auction for tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, the relationship has become even more entwined. Art fairs like Miami Art Basel and the Venice Biennale have emerged as important marketplaces for luxury brands like Gucci, Cartier and Bulgari. A fashion-forward designer like Jacobs works with trailblazing artists like Prince and Japan's Takashi Murakami...
...supreme American novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, and Nathanael West, 37, died within a day of each other in December 1940. Just a few hours after Edith Piaf died on October 11, 1963, her friend Jean Cocteau passed away as well; some said that France's supreme aesthete did it as the grandest possible gesture of solidarity...
...confection that looked right out of a Fragonard, Amber Valetta in pale blue, a portrait of Renoir. Each dress more elaborate and evocative than the first. Galliano called it a Bal des Artistes, in keeping with Dior's great love of art and his friendships with artists like Jean Cocteau. For Galliano, it was also a celebration of his 10 years at Dior and a tribute to his great friend and colleague at Dior, Steven Robinson, who passed away earlier this spring...
...Europe of the 1920s, that generational dissent was mostly expressed either in the arts (Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, Aldous Huxley) or in outright decadence (at the haunts of London's good-time toffs, say, or at just about any club in Berlin). But caught up in a renewed spiral to war, youths, many of them jobless, were soon being courted by political groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked...
During Surrealism’s heyday, Jean Cocteau argued that the criterion for a true work of Surrealist art should be that the images are “lasting and fresh.†“The Secret Lives of Umbrellas†would have us question this paradigm...