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Growing up I filled my schedule with dance classes, in every variation of dance. Searching for a costume was one of my favorite tasks each year. I would pay close attention to the story it told and how it would move on the stage. Would it complete the story that I was trying to tell with the dance? That same excitement followed me to love the fashion industry. I like to think of the whole story that is being told and how the movement of the clothes is the language. Just like dance is an art form, I look at fashion as an art and not simply a business.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Art vs. Fashion: Bob Krieger

Bob Krieger is one of Italy’s most famous fashion photographers. He has had the opportunity to photograph some of the most important people such as, various heads of State, the first ever Miss Italy, top models, and iconic figures like Valentino, Bill Gates and Vogue Italia’s Franca Sozzani. His photographs have also been featured in prominent magazines such as, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Time and The New York Times.

Early this month an exhibit opened up in the Palazzo Reale museum in Milan, which featured many of his works. One of the plaques stated that Bob Krieger had the “ability to depict the soul of his objects; with no pretences or concessions.”

One photograph really caught my eye, as it was a zoomed in eye edited quite interestingly. The piece is called Evoluzione and the rough elements of the eye and what seems like sketching is very unique. The eyebrow looks as if it is sweeping pencil marks, however I also see a feather shape.

A major trend for the Spring/Summer 2012 that has already started to catch on is feathers of every kind. The hairs of the eyebrow in the photograph fall and shape the same way the hairs of the feather fall. The designer Blue Man, from Rio de Janeiro, used feather earrings during its runway presentation to follow this growing trend.

This relation of the art of Bob Krieger and the fashion of Blue Man show that fashion and art really do go hand in hand. Art can influence fashion the same way and amount that fashion can influence art.  


From Stylesight.com
Photograph by Bob Krieger