![]() The exhibition Pop Art Fabrics & Fashion displays more than 200 textile and fashion designs, from the birth of pop culture in 1956 to its turbulent demise in the 1970s. From designs featuring rock stars and soup cans to psychedelic patterns and punk outfits from the 1960s and 1970s, they found an eager following especially among the adventurous younger generation. Even renowned Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and internationally acclaimed fashion designers including Mary Quant, Pierre Cardin and Vivienne Westwood designed spectacular pop textiles for fashion and furnishings. Inspired by Pop Art, many young designers developed exciting new patterns for textiles and wallpaper. The mix of popular images and music with art and fashion changed the way people dressed and behaved. Clothing with the work of Lichtenstein were included in the collections Iceberg and Lisa Perry, and the artist is favored by footwear brands such as Nike, Vans and Converse.In the 1950s, a wave of rock ‘n’ roll and youth culture from America swept the world. The same can be said of Roy Lichtenstein, whose work is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for designers and brands. ![]() In the 1990s, Gianni Versace used his Marilyn engraving on his dress designs, and in more recent times Christian Dior launched a collection inspired by Warhol’s shoe sketches, and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac presented clothing printed with the artist’s portrait. When we talk about artists who have left a big impact on fashion design, we must mention Warhol again, as he is definitely one of the most referenced artists in the industry. The most popular artists in the fashion industry These garments captured the very essence of the consumer lifestyle when they approached the idea of discarding consumer goods. In the sixties, Warhol began to print his art drawings on the paper dresses that were at that time becoming a novelty. ![]() Just as pop art was turning to mass culture in the fifties and sixties, high fashion came on the scene with mass-produced items. He was also one of the first artists to turn his art into fashion items. He began his career as a fashion illustrator, working for magazines such as Glamor, Mademoiselle and even Vogue. Andy Warhol started in the fashion world!Īndy Warhol is probably the first pop art icon to become the influential figure in the fashion world. Showing that fashion and art can unite, and that the result of this can be quite satisfactory. Yves Saint Laurent was the first designer to burst with the trend in her Fall / Winter collection when she launched the Mondrian dress in her collection entitled “Pop Art”, launched in 1966. Pop Art employed images of mass culture known from advertisements to other banal objects, enveloping them in sensational and bold color combinations. Rebellious against elitist values, Pop Art embraced mundane life experiences, introducing aspects of mass culture and bringing art closer to the new generation of Americans who were beginning to experience all the benefits of America’s consumer paradise in post-war America. Since Pop Art emerged in the 1950s, it has gone hand in hand with the fashion industry.
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