ART: ONLY PERCEPTION OF TRUTH

My favourite artist once said, “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” And now I think that designers these days must have taken inspiration and have started carving his golden words on their canvases. It is believed that fashion is a form of body art and a component of visual culture. Due to this, numerous well-known fashion designers from over the world have created stunning collections that are inspired by art trends. History has seen a strong relationship between fashion and art. For their collections, several fashion designers have taken inspiration from art movements, allowing us to view fashion as a kind of art. The art mostly helps us convey our thoughts and visions. Here are a few pieces of wearable art created by 20th-century fashion visionaries as an elegant monument to the history of art.

MADELEINE VIONNET:
The talented artist Madame Vionnet commonly known as ‘The architect of dressmakers’ was bedazzled by the art and culture of the Greek and Roman civilizations and inspired by ancient goddesses and statues. Based on these artworks, she shaped her style aesthetic and combined elements of Greek sculpture and architecture to give a new dimension to the female body. With her master skill of draping and bias-cutting dresses, she revolutionized modern fashion.

VALENTINO AND HIERONYMUS BOSCH
Pierpaolo Piccioli is the main designer of Valentino. He wanted to connect the late ’70s punk culture with humanism and medieval art, so he went back to his roots and the Renaissance, finding inspiration in Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. His entire collection is interpreted as an allegory for sin.

DOLCE & GABBANA AND THE BAROQUE OF PETER PAUL RUBENS
Peter Paul Rubens besmeared women masterfully, ‘with love, scholarship and diligence.’ His art mostly talks about Venus and sexual desires, and his concept of ‘colours are more important than lines,” influenced several fashion designers including Dolce & Gabbana. The Baroque style deviated from the spirit of the Renaissance abandoned peacefulness and smoothness and pursued instead elegance, excitement, and movement.