This article was co-authored by Mia Danilowicz. Mia Danilowicz is a Master Tailor who works onset and on the red carpet in Los Angeles, California. With over a decade of experience, Mia specializes in bridal and gown couturier fittings, garment reconstruction, and custom design. Mia has worked at the Oscars, Grammys, SAG Awards, and Golden Globes. Her clients include a long list of entertainment and fashion industry headliners, major fashion magazines, luxury consumer brands, and popular media. Mia was trained at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and received her AA in Fashion Design and BS in Business Management. Why choose artists, though? Is this because he believes their aesthetic sensibilities are more finely tuned than our own? “No, it’s more that artists are better able in their lives to have a deeper understanding of clothing. Most people have to dress a certain way – or we feel that we do. In our working hours, we’re not in real communication with our clothing. We might even feel negatively about them: we might hate our jobs, we might feel constricted. Artists are a good case study because, alone in the studio, they’re freed of those outside forces.” The characters in his book – it is populated by the likes of Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol, as well as by less well-known names – are, he believes, liberated in a way that we’d all like to be, if only we had the opportunity (or the courage). “Fashion is cruel to those who are older,” he says. “Which is mad because the population is ageing and older people don’t just stop being engaged in clothing or interested in what it can do for the body. But in my book, you’ve got Louise Bourgeois, who doesn’t meet Helmut Lang [with whom she becomes great friends, and whose clothes she wears] until she is in her 80s.” Our collection Artists Artworks Art by theme Explore Videos Podcasts Short articles In depth Art Terms Tate Research Student resources Make art Create like an artist Kids art activities Tate Draw game

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or this absolute banger of obviousness that led to nothing “ nakedness has been there throughout art history: just look at the bodies on show in ancient Greek sculpture”. as if no one has ever know that or as if it will later play out in his text (no, it won’t)The beauty of being a fashion critic is that it’s very different from being an art critic or a theater critic. If I were to review the Venice Biennale that just opened, for example, anyone in the world who has the financial means can travel to Venice to see the Biennale. So you’ve got a direct link to something human beings can actually do. The thing about the fashion show is that if I reviewed the Prada show, for example, then in six months’ time, certain pieces from that collection will be produced, but by no means all; with some brands, hardly any pieces that are shown are produced. Maybe one person that reads the review might actually buy something six months later. There is no immediate call to action of any kind with the reader. I also loved it for that reason, but the downside of that is that the garments you’re looking at have very often only been worn by one model, once, in a fashion show. We talk about these garments as if they’ve all been worn, but we’re talking about them in a language which actually is conjecture. I really wanted to think about garments that have been bought and worn and entered into someone’s life and to see what we can learn from that. Takes ages to get to the point and is such a general overview - disappointingly un revolutionary (as seems to be the case with this kind of art book but what do you expect 🙄) makes me feel itchy and like I wanna shake the author upside down and scream at them Keith agrees and says, “Salons have lost three months revenue and now they have to buy lots of PPE. This is possibly a cost you can pass on to your client.” The focus on what artists decide to wear daily and in performance art proves to be a window into the wider culture their art is born into. It situates where they fit or more commonly, resist pressure to comply with their contemporaries.

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Next summer we have been invited to Helmingham Hall, one of the most romantic houses in England, by Edward and Sophie Tollemache. It will be an exploration of Helmingham’s 500 years of garden history, and of the gardens designed in recent years by Xa Tollemache, Edward’s mother. An exclusive portfolio of behind-the-scenes images from the collections of A Magazine Curated By guest-curators Iris Van Herpen, Thom Browne and Giambattista Valli. The conversation is chaired by writer and journalist Charlie Porter, who has also contributed to the Warhol catalogue. If you have a business or studio, design T-shirts with its name and logo. If the shirts are eye-catching, wearing them can get complete strangers interested in your art.

The selection of artists: some heavy hitters but I imagine many will be new to you if you are, like me, casually interested in art & aesthetics. This is a good thing.

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Después de la lectura, acompaña a Jesse Lopez para la próxima entrega del Club de lectura de la Biblioteca de Investigación de Arte Lemon, presentando Lo que visten los artistas de Charlie Porter. Este libro ricamente ilustrado lleva a los lectores en un viaje a través de la ropa que usan los artistas y lo que nos revelan sus elecciones. Esta selección del club de lectura explora temas centrales de tres exposiciones de PhxArt, incluyendo Modelándose a sí mismo: la fotografía de la expresión cotidiana, EN MOVIMIENTO: El corte moderno de Geoffrey Beene, and Mr: Puedes escuchar la canción de este pueblo. Reading it really does remind you of Ways of Seeing by John Berger, the feel of the book, the layout of text and image. Some interviewed people are saying themselves „it was not a statement, just what was available and comfortable for work“ An artist’s choice of clothing can become a further stem of their practice. A great example of this was in the section on Lynn Hershman Leeson. With ‘Roberta Breitmore’ the artist’s choice of clothing became integral to creating the artwork. Her costume, wig and make-up created the character she performed as for 5 years, her choices in clothes helped form a commentary on the treatment women within 1970’s culture.this is for artist cognoscenti. those who mix and mingle in the art world. for those of us who might admire Georgia OKeefe's outfits, or Virginia Woolf's style, or Oscar Wilde, well that's too basic for this book. it's not for art dabblers. Following the lecture, join Jesse Lopez for the next installment of the Lemon Art Research Library Book Club, featuring Charlie Porter’s What Artists Wear. This richly illustrated book takes readers on a journey through the clothing worn by artists and what their choices reveal to us. This book club selection explores topics central to three PhxArt exhibitions, including Fashioning Self: The Photography of Everyday Expression, MOVE: The Modern Cut of Geoffrey Beene, and Mr: You Can Hear the Song of This Town.

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Delicious ... What Artists Wear can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of your art or fashion knowledge ... Porter shares each anecdote with the confidence and clarity of a story teller, weaving memories into the book Glass Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are.Screen print your own T-shirts. Are you tired of seeing the same old T-shirt designs? Make custom shirts that nobody else in the world can wear.