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5 Buzzy Moments Where Art and Fashion Collide

From Cindy Sherman’s striking campaign with Marc Jacobs to Dior’s couture show featuring large-scale murals by Italian artist Isabella Ducrot

By Lucy Rees
Three models wearing colorful, artistic outfits in a studio setting, showcasing modern fashion designs.
Loewe 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Loewe
Art installation with abstract shapes in red and gold on a black-and-white grid-patterned wall in a modern gallery setting.
Dior x Isabella Ducrot. Photo: Courtesy of Dior

1. Dior x Isabella Ducrot

Blanketing the walls of Dior’s spring 2024 haute couture show, which took place at Musée Rodin in Paris, was a series of 23 monumental works by the nonagenarian Italian textile artist Isabella Ducrot. These massive  depictions of garments, each measuring more than 16 feet in height, were woven on ancient looms by the artisans of the Chanakya ateliers and School of Craft in Mumbai, India. The composition of each was based around a series of irregular, abstract black stripes recalling the weft and warp of the fabric.

Model walking runway in colorful artistic pants and light blue shirt, with vibrant paintings in the background.
Loewe Autumn/Winter 2024 menswear collection. Photo: Courtesy of Loewe
Model in a black leather coat walks down the runway at a fashion show, with colorful art in the background.
Loewe Autumn/Winter 2024 menswear collection. Photo: Courtesy of Loewe

2. Loewe x Richard Hawkins

For Loewe’s latest menswear collection presentation during Paris Fashion Week, creative director Jonathan Anderson teamed up with Los Angeles–based painter Richard Hawkins, who created digital collages that recalled arched stained glass windows. Seven of Hawkins’s paintings were hung on the venue’s back wall, creating the effect of an artist’s studio or gallery.

Colorful arrangement of broken ceramic vases with yellow daffodils and orange tulips against a plain background
Fragmented vase from Dries Van Noten x Bouke De Vries. Photo: Courtesy of Dries Van Noten

3. Dries Van Noten x Bouke De Vries

Artist Bouke de Vries reclaims broken pots, calling the process “the beauty of destruction,” putting their cracks and fractures under the spotlight instead of hiding them. Four of these stunning works are now on view through March 12 at Dries Van Noten‘s Galerie Quai Malaquais, a new retail concept space devoted exclusively to fragrance, beauty, and accessories in the heart of Paris’s Rive Gauche.

Model in a beige outfit walking on a runway with abstract sculptures in the background, wearing white shoes and carrying a bag.
Jacquemus show. Photo: Courtesy of Jacquemus

4. Jacquemus x Giacometti

The latest collection of Jacquemus, titled “Les Sculptures,” was unveiled at La Fondation Maeght, a stunning art museum overlooking Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France, which houses a trove of sculptures by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti.

Person sitting on a chair wearing a white sweater, leather pants, and a studded bag, posing against a stone wall.
Portrait of Cindy Sherman for Marc Jacobs spring/summer 2024. Photo: Photo by Juergen Teller. Courtesy of Marc Jacobs.
Person in a long coat and high heels outside Marc Jacobs store on a city street.
Portrait of Cindy Sherman for Marc Jacobs spring/summer 2024. Photo: Photo by Juergen Teller. Courtesy of Marc Jacobs.

5. Marc Jacobs x Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman, the iconic American photographer celebrated for her creative self-portraits, is starring in Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 2024 campaign. To mark the luxury brand’s 40th anniversary, German photographer captured two of Sherman’s many personas. Debuting on Instagram last Wednesday, the pictures depict Sherman as a polished blonde in a tweed suit standing outside the Marc Jacobs Soho store and as a grungy brunette in black leather pants in the second.