September 2009

Fashion: First Impressionism

With the Greenville County Museum of Art as the canvas for this fall’s exquisite evening attire, form and function accentuate the artists’ grace—creating a balance of brilliant hues, modern themes, and classic beauty

Photographs by:

Patrick Cavan Brown

Photo gallery:

First Impressionism

It’s a juxtaposition of media—this unique relationship between art and fashion. Each is inspired by the other, highlighting the conscious use of skill and creative imagination to produce visual objects of desire.

In fashion, each garment shares a particular relationship with the aesthetic of its era. And art, as author Joseph Campbell noted, reveals “the implicit forms of the soul.”

These two creative forms are inextricably intertwined, each acting as a muse for the other: Old inspires new, classic themes beget modern beauty, and fashion becomes art. We ask to be dressed in the colors of handsome paintings and have our portraits painted while draped in glorious styles of sophistication. We invite you on a visual stroll through this gallery of evening wear—or, as we like to call it, attire as art.

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Styled by Mary Ann Sudnick & Taryn Scher Hair & Makeup by Karen Weast