WHEN FASHION MEETS ART: THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN EXCITING EMERGING LONDON-BASED DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS
The British Fashion Council in London continues with its commendable initiative Fashion Arts Foundation.
With the aim of “bringing together fashion and art”, the project puts in contact some of the best emerging talents from the British Fashion Council NewGen programme with recent art graduates from the Royal Academy Schools with the aim of creating brand new exciting artworks in collaboration using a variety of different media.
“With this special project, we are taking fashion in a new direction. The worlds of fashion and art have long since been intertwined, with many fashion designers looking at art for creative inspiration. The Fashion Arts Commissions aims to celebrate this intersection by bringing together future talents across these creative disciplines” explains Caroline Rush CBE, Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council. Whereas Eliza Bonham Carter, Head of the Royal Academy Schools and curator of Fashion Arts Commissions, adds: “The exchange between the designer and artist of differing approaches, attitudes, material and manual knowledge and their personal processes of thinking, result in the creation of previously unimagined objects, images, installations and ideas”.
The fashion designers and brands participating at the 2017/2018 edition are Liam Hodges, Paula Knorr, Richard Malone, Sadie Williams and A-COLD-WALL* who colla borated with the recently graduated artists Nicky Carvell, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Marco Palmieri, Carla Busuttil and Julie Born Schwartz. The inaugural edition of the scheme, which was launched in 2016, included some of Sport&Street favourite London-based designers, i.e. Diego Vanassibara, Kit Neale, Alex Mullins and Agi & Sam, who worked respectively with the following young artists, i.e. Victoria Adam, Jonathan Trayte, Amy Petra Woodwar and Joe Frazer.
Previewed in February during the latest edition of London Fashion Week, the new artworks are available for viewing and purchasing at Christie’s King Street offices in London until March 18th. All proceeds from the sale will go to to the registered charity BFC Fashion Arts Foundation.
www.britishfashioncouncil.com/fashionartsfoundation
by Peppe Orrù
