Marc Jacobs made his circus

The American designer flirt with contemporary art is a long-term history. Not only is an avid collector man, but he is frequently called upon the talents of artists distinguished for its collections. At Louis Vuitton, where he officiates as creative director, he has made such contribution Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama and Daniel Buren, who signed the setting for his last show in Paris.

For his own label, artist Cindy Sherman participated in a series of shots Juergen Teller signed to promote a collection released in 2005. Work full of irony disturbing that American also serves as inspiration for spring 2013 pre-collection of Marc Jacobs. The maxirobes sets and cuts summer spirit dressed in seventies are printed in garish colors strident push the idea of a good mood to a climax as stifling as suspect.

Pretenses dizzying

All refers to a series of Cindy Sherman, Clowns, presented in 2003 and 2004 in the American post-September 11 where, for some, show a smiling face was a way to ward off the demons of fear and threats terrorists. Interested in cinema (Rear Screen Projections), art (History Portraits / Old Masters), fashion (Fashion) or sexuality (Centerfold, Broken Dolls), Cindy Sherman scratching surfaces well prepared to discover sense that we would leave in the shade. His work questions the status of women in modern society, too often conditioned by its appearance, fun to grow codes and clichés in force at the end of their logic.

In this game of pretense dizzying and fascinating, the garment may play an important role. Means of expression, it is used to comply with a standard or to rebel but its meaning often escapes those who observe it. Sometimes the woman who wears it. Innate / acquired, conscious / unconscious, beautiful / weird, all blends and merges into the circus of fashion. Marc Jacobs and Cindy Sherman participate in their own way, to show contemporary. And universal

Marc Jacobs made his circus

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