Left: Conjuring the unbridled playfulness and imagination of childhood,
Atelier Swarovski’s Nostalgia bracelet by Greek fashion designer
Mary Katrantzou dazzles with a parade of colorful crystals inside yellow-gold-plated hexagons, cubes, and spheres.
Right: Known for experimenting with mesmerizing geometries, Danish-born artist
Olafur Eliasson blurs the line between the organic and the technological. His 2008 work
Fat Super Star, featured in his new book,
Olafur Eliasson: Experience (Phaidon, $85), creates otherworldly light patterns with a glass polyhedron illuminated by halogen bulbs.
Photo: Courtesy of Atelier Swarovski; Jens Wiehe/Studio Olafur Eliasson Recommended: Life Imitates Art: 4 Unusual Examples
Right: Challenging contemporary notions of beauty by fusing the glamorous with the grotesque, American artist
Marilyn Minter created the 2012 photo-realistic painting
Big Bang as part of a series that captures models traipsing around in designer heels as seen through a filter of broken glass and dripping water.
Left: Dissonant layers of delicate fabrics and moody patterns electrify
Prada’s science-fiction-driven fall/winter 2018 collection, originally presented on the runway in the
Rem Koolhaas–designed extension of the
Prada Foundation in Milan.
Photo: Courtesy of Prada; Courtesy of Marilyn Minter Studio Left: In this 2016 untitled diptych, which draws inspiration from traditional Flemish flower paintings, São Paulo artist
Mariana Palma combines images of richly colored textiles and lush greenery native to Brazil.
Right: A curious mix of materials, including scarab beetles, butterfly wings, rubies, diamonds, and garnets, bursts from the gold hands of Dior’s one-of-a-kind Grand Bal Pièce Unique Jardins Imaginaires No. 5—part of a ten-piece watch collection inspired by
Christian Dior’s passion for untamable nature.
Photo: Courtesy of Casa Triangulo, São Paulo; Courtesy of Dior Recommended: Life Imitates Art: 4 Intriguing Examples
Left: Seasoned contributors to
Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection, designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, the duo behind London-based
Raw Edges, infuse the collapsible Concertina Light with their signature whimsy and wonder.
Right: Deemed the unofficial photographer for Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy,
Mark Shaw started his career in advertising. His most famous fashion images are the hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photographs he shot as part of a decade-long campaign for the lingerie company Vanity Fair.
Photo: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton Malletier; © Mark Shaw/MPTVImages A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2018 Fall Issue under the headline Life Imitates Art. Subscribe to the magazine.
Cover: Left: Designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, the duo behind London-based Raw Edges, infuse the collapsible Concertina Light with their signature whimsy and wonder;
Right: Mark Shaw's most famous fashion images are the hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photographs he shot as part of a decade-long campaign for the lingerie company Vanity Fair.
Photo: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton Malletier; © Mark Shaw/MPTVImages
