August 2011 Issue 242
1 Fashion and Art: Critical Crossovers: ADAM GECZY & VICKI KARAMINAS
YVES SAINT LAURENT, ‘MONDRIAN’ DAY DRESS, AUTUMN 1965, wool jersey in color blocks of white, red, blue, black, and yellow. Gift of Mrs. William Rand, 1969. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
2 Parallel lives: Art Meets Fashion again and again and everywhere: ELEANOR WEBER
INSTALLATION VIEWS, FACE OF FASHION, 2007, 15 FEBRUARY TO 28 MAY 2007. © National Portrait Gallery, London. www.npg.org.uk/fashion
3 Up Close and Personal: Art and Fashion in the Museum: NADIA BUICK
Cecil Beaton standing in front of an Ascot costume for My Fair Lady (1963) at his exhibition Fashion: An Anthology at the V&A, 1971
4 Natural Distinction Unnatural Selection: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty: DAVID HANSEN
Ensemble, The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, Autumn/Winter 2008–9. images of work by Alexander McQueen, from the exhibition catalogue for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Images courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photographs © Sølve Sundsbø / Art + Commerce
5 How artists changed fashion: ‘back-story’: PETER McNEIL
Joseph Willems, after François Boucher, The music lesson, c. 1765, porcelain (soft-paste), 39.5 x 30.3 x 21.3cm; manufacturer: Chelsea Porcelain Factory. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Felton Bequest, 1990
6 Fash in the food aisles: HUNI MANCINI
Image from Stolen Girlfriends Club show at New World Supermarket, Victoria Park, Auckland, as part of the 2011 NZ Fashion Festival. Photograph by Petrice Rhodes. Image courtesy Stolen Girlfriends Club. http://stolengirlfriendsclub.com
7 From practicality to spirituality: WA Indigenous fashion design: CHRISTIANE KELLER
Ron Gidgup, Gown, yellow satin, silk jacket with beaded pattern; worn by Roseanne Gillespie, Kwobinyan Bokka fashion parade, Wes tern Australian Museum, 1993. Image courtesy Western Australian Museum
8 Somewhere between meringue and ivory: the White Wedding Dress: SUZANNE SPUNNER
Silk wedding dress, over-sleeves and pelerine, trimmed with blond silk lace (detail), British, 1828. Worn by Eliza Larken for her marriage to William (later 6th Bar on) Monson. ©Victoria & Albert Museum / V&A Images
9 Nalda Searles: Drifting in My Own Land: NIEN SCHWARZ
Grass Skull 2, 2008, common fodder (meadow hay), poly thread, rough stitching, 12 x 22 x 16cm. All images of work by Nalda Searles from the exhibition catalogue for NALDA SEARLES, drifting in my own land. Images courtesy the artist
10 The Black Wedding Dress: MICHELLE MURRAY
Annabelle Collette, Abandoned Dress, 2011, cotton, bones, rusted metal, shell and buttons, installation view, South Coast Regional Arts Centre (the former Old Goolwa Police Station), Goolwa, SA
11 Liz Ham: postwar to punk: MITCHELL OAKLEY SMITH
Liz Ham, Sandra hanging her washing, Newtown, 1996. Images courtesy the artist
12 Making it up as we went: MERRYN GATES
(l-r) Paul Schutze, Jane Joyce, Dean Richards, Robert Pearce, Merryn Gates, Ian Russell, Timothy Newsome; centre: Jillian Burt, 1981. Photograph by Julie Purvis
13 Queering Sydney - The ‘art and fashion queens’: SALLY GRAY
Clarence Chai, photograph of Peter Tully (right) as Minnie Mouse dressed for the annual Arts Ball, Melbourne, 1966
14 Lost in the Masquerade: ManStyle / Men + Fashion: ANDREW MONTANA
Jean Paul Gaultier, Shirt, 1996, Spring/Summer 1996, silk, shell buttons, 79cm (centre back), 64cm (sleeve length). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Gift of Ron Ramsey, 1998
15 Dress Code: Greg Leong’s ‘Makeover extravaganza’: COURTENAY SMITH & SEAN TOPHAM
Flannelette Carmen, 2003, flannelette, lace, brocade, Australian badges, Australian buttons and Chinese frogs, 143 x 60 x 30cm. IMAGES OF WORK BY GREG LEONG; COURTESY THE ARTIST
16 Suzanne Tamaki’s Treaty of Why Tangi MEGAN: TAMATI-QUENNELL
Aotearoa. Land of the wrong white crowd, 2005, Lambda photographic print. Photographer Greg Semu. Work by Suzanne Tamaki; image courtesy the artist
17 Martyn Thompson’s interior cinema: JAN JONES
Curtain, Anna Sui, New York. All images of work by Martyn Thompson
18 ‘Zones-in-Between’: the creation of new fashion: praxis MARCO PECORARI
Dysfashional exhibition, Luxembourg, 2007;
3/a Raf Simons, Repeat, 1995-2005
© Courtesy Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Firenze;
3/b Maison Martin Margiela, Création Luxembourg, 2007 © A. Morin
19 Dr Lakra’s art of the flesh: MANAMI OKAZAKI
Untitled (retrato de mujer con calaca), 2007, ink on vintage magazine page, 28.4 x 22cm. IMAGE OF WORK BY DR LAKRA; IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST AND KURIMANZUTTO GALLERY, MEXICO
20 BioElectric Beauty: MELINDA RACKHAM
Emily Crane, Micro-Nutrient Couture, 2010, made through a process involving gelatines, kappa –carrageenan (gel), water, natural flavour extracts, glyc erine, food colouring, lustres
21 Paper Crane over Sydney: Bowie at RAFW: MAURICE O'RIORDAN
Bowie Wong in his atelier/studio in Chippendale, Sydney, holding a skirt which incorporates a fabric he sourced through a lamp designer. A copy of this skirt was gifted to Lady Gaga when he met her by chance in a Tokyo hotel. PHOTOGRAPH BY GARY LEE
22 Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox: SASHA GRISHIN
Ethel Carrick Fox, Market, under trees, 1919,
oil on canvas, 73 x 98.5cm. PRIVATE COLLECTION. COURTESY: SOTHEBY’S AUSTRALIA
23 Kim Thomson: MAURICE O'RIORDAN
Dada deco, 2011, recycled anodized aluminium. All images of work by Kim Thomson; images courtesy the artist
24 Fashionable Pride in Madrid: JUSTINE BAYOD ESPOZ
Scene from the Madrid Pride Parade, 2011. Photographs by Justi ne Bayod Espoz.
