“Here, time takes on an almost fictional quality. Her presence seems to traverse the boundaries of conventional chronology, existing in a parallel reality—an era that only exists within the realms of imagination, a time that never truly was.”
“Thinking about what ‘fits’ us, not only physically but metaphysically, is interesting. Because if our ideas and beliefs are treated less like immaterial substances that somehow underwrite the unchanging essence of who we are, and more like garments, then we may be more apt to try on new ideas and concepts, the same way we try on a new piece of clothing.”
“Fashion design has been one of the references in my work since the ’90s. Some of my motifs
were inspired by Emilio Pucci’s designs from the ’60s. These are the poetry of a time.”
“Fashion or clothing—embellishments, body art, anything we place upon the naked body—is a very special and personalized form of expression and communication, either subliminal or overt…. I think that art and fashion are always dancing around one another, and often stepping on each other’s feet. I create in search of meaning; with fashion, we search for ways to mean something to one another, in how we appear.”
“The line that delineates art from non-art is so interesting to me. So many things make art art, and I think it often boils down to having a point of view, or evoking a specific feeling or mood, which I think fashion often does.”
“My response for Marni was the idea of the dress being upside down, and it developed into the idea of a figure wearing the dress and looking at a mousehole (the world) in a surprising position, and the world (a cat) looking back at her from the window.”
“I just found the idea fun, that a man with glasses taped together by a Band-Aid, living
in Reykjavík, should respond artistically to Ralph Lauren in Vogue. Irresistible absurdity.”
“I always enjoy melding the boundaries between art and fashion. In reality I think there is a false dichotomy between the two disciplines. Fashion is functional, and often the functional creative disciplines get relegated to ‘design’—which I believe is a bit of an antiquated idea. It is all art—art is life, and living well is an art form.”
“I wasn’t sure how to collaborate with this collection, so I just used the model and the clothes as what they are here, for my watercolor.”
“The fabric in my painting is taken from Raphael’s The Alba Madonna, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It’s a good example of how fabric and fashion were always big subjects for painters. It also points out that the history of color is often more linked to fashion and dying fabric than to painting.”