JNOMICS — FASHION => ART => FASHION

FASHION => ART => FASHION | YAYOI KUSAMA

It makes sense that Kusama — whose colorful artwork is usually focused on obsessive repetition of vivid Pop patterns — is like the Rainbow Brite of the art world, known for her bright wigs and polka-dotted dresses. After arriving in New York from Japan in the late 1950s, she became the avant-It Girl, and opened a fashion boutique offering clothes that were “nude, see-through and mod.” In 1973 she would return to Tokyo and check herself into a mental hospital. Luckily, she was chosen as Japan’s representative at the 1993 Venice Biennale, which led to a major retrospective at the MoMA in 1998, and the resurgence of her profile. Among the people whose work her kooky aesthetic has influenced? Designer Marc Jacobs, as he revealed in a recent documentary.

Interesting the circular nature of the fashion to art relationship artists have with their style. I’m inspired.

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