Combining art with fashion, Opening Ceremony, together with the Artist's Rights Society, has created a collection of extraordinary fashion pieces dedicated to the surrealist artist René Magritte.
A week after they are in February New York Fashion Week presented the AW14 collection, v London launched yet the "Opening Ceremony x Margritte" collection. With a unique approach to "wearable art", they are men and women's clothing and footwear equipped with prints of 12 iconic images the renowned Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte.
The beautiful set features a floating face of artwork "Scheherazade" (1950), a glass of water on an umbrella from "Hegel's Holiday" (1958 and 1959) and a kissing couple from "The Lovers" (1928). They also invited to participate fashion brand Birkenstocks, Vans and Manolo Blahnik, which helped shape the collection artistic footwear.
V style of Margritt's surreal visual aesthetics it is Opening Ceremony also took care of outstanding fashion photos as part of the campaign. Ordinary objects, placed in unusual contexts, misleading optical contrasts and physically impossible compositions were the red thread of the art direction, with which they succeeded perpetuate Margritt's recognizable stamp. A fusion of fashion and art and art with fashion have upgraded with by covering the faces of the models in silk fabric or everyday objects. So they created a sophisticated the effect of some "living" works of art, placed in inanimate exhibition environment.
See how the brand Opening Ceremony managed to combine extreme surrealist art with wearable fashion.
