Wonderful alert: Art attack

With catwalk show spaces posing as exhibits and brush strokes splattered over dresses, fashion is flaunting the particular most artistic flourishes this slide

Cé line spring/summer 2014 lineup Photo: Isidore Montag

To say when art is a recurrent theme included in the spring/summer 2014 collections is an tiefstapelei; the international fashion weeks got positively shouting their cultural launching points from the catwalks - when had even been fashioned back into gallery spaces themselves.

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Big players Karl Lagerfeld System.Drawing.Bitmap Miuccia Prada transformed Paris' Extrême Palais and Milan's Via Fogazzaro into modern art show sites for the Chanel and Prada instructs, respectively.

"I made believe previously it was all kinds of young artists together, micron Lagerfeld told Vogue's Hamish Bowles of the quilted sumo wrestler, autómata made from bottles of Chanel Number 5 and giant handbags littering the Palais. "But it's not several young artists. It's one unwanted and old artist-me! I made everything. Finally it was a good summer's work! "

Accessories from Karl Lagerfeld's S/S '14 Chanel gallery

Prada, meanwhile, asked muralists Miles 'El Mac' Gregor, Mesa, Gabriel Specter, and Stinkfish, and illustrators Jeanne Detallante System.Drawing.Bitmap Pierre Mornet, to paint them of Via Fogazzaro with subjects of femininity, representation, power, System.Drawing.Bitmap multiplicity. The result was a vast, brightly decorated cavern whereby the audience were located around a central island looking out along at the murals, rather than around a traditional catwalk.

Though it was these two power owns that furthered the 'is trend setting art? ' conversation directly included in the presentation spaces, Cé line, Jil Sander and Kenzo all went with painterly themes for spring/summer 2014 too. Inspiration came due to the fact varied as the nineteenth-century sample deck by Royal Talens, who bring about oil paints for artists (at Chanel) and Leon Bakst's one of a kind illustrations (Tata Naka).

Though you 'd berate yourself for your cultural cred at not recognising the crafting muses behind the fashion, the good news is that providing one colourful summer coming. We raise our paint brushes to that.