It's two days to the unveiling of the Fall 2014 collections at New York Fashion Week, and several designers have been too excited to keep their art inspirations under wraps, choosing to reveal them to fashion daily WWD before the runways have even been waxed.
From the Bauhaus to DeStijl, cribbing from paintings by Paul Klee and Johannes Vermeer to Ferran Adrià's innovative plates, here are BLOUIN Artinfo's picks for art references worth watching for when designers shortly send their collections to the catwalk.
"The work of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee." — Jordana Warmflash, Novis
"The visual artists that favored geometric principles of design, setting the way for the modernism of the 20th century." — Odile Benjamin, Raoul
"Robert Morris' architecture with strokes of Dutch art by Vermeer in rich, textured fabrics and yarns." — Aron Rose
"Graphic texture." — Richard Chai, Richard Chai Love
"De Stijl, the architecture of Theo van Doesburg and paintings by Bart van der Leck..." — Yeohlee Teng, Yeohlee
"Scandinavian graphic." — Whitney Pozgay, Whit
"Chromatic clashes." — Lubov Azria, BCBG Max Azria
"The extraordinarily moving oeuvre of artist Shirin Neshat (Iranian) and her interest in singer Oum Kalthoum (Egyptian)." — Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin, Tome
"To appreciate the beauty of winter, I collaborated with artist Morgan Stuart to create a print of a winter motif that I resonated with and acknowledged before: the carnivorous winter." — Heather Lawton
"Rough terrain." — Nicole and Michael Colovos, Helmut Lang
"As a nod to Chef Ferran Adrià's masterful creations at El Bulli, I combined textural, playful and experimental ideas into this collection. Pearls and crystals are refined and softened by architectural and modern silhouettes, respectively." — Lela Rose
