Richter & Chloé

Inspired by the Thersic Style Icon blog, I decided to pair Chloé, one of my favorite designers from the 2012 pre-fall runway collections with Mr.Gerhard Richter (props to Sena for the artist referral) whose strikingly rendered abstract and photorealistic paintings demonstrates both illusionistic space that seems natural and the physicality of the painting medium as mutual interferences. For Richter, reality is the combination of new attempts to understand, to represent and to paint the world surrounding us. It would only be too perfect to pair these two genre defying artists to compare in the essence of aesthetics.

Sleek elongated separates, crimson oranges, high-waisted pencil skirts, shrunken blazers, and skinny cigarette pants. Inspired by the visual archive of American fashion photographer Garry Winogrand’s candid shots of the Manhattan’s stylish city women weaving their way through crosstown traffic, Chloé’s creative director Claire Waight Keller took cues from the minimalist and maximalist aesthetics that defined those respective eras. The British designer successfully set pace for a multi-dimensional, on-the-street ready looks with seemingly opposing proportions for pre-fall.

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One response to “Richter & Chloé”

  1. Most unusual juxtaposition!! : )

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