8 perfect matches between fashion and art

The blurred line between the fashion and art worlds has led to some highly creative collaborations.
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A promotional image for the Hirst McQueen collaboration

Perhaps the best known fashion- artist collaboration ​was between Italian couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and surrealist
Salv​ador Dali. Their creations include a dress designed with tears (far more radical in the days before ripped jeans became a fashion item), a lobster dress and a skirt made like a chest of drawers. There was also a skeleton dress made with padding so that the plain black dressed looked like it was being worn by a skeleton. The shoe hat  from Schiaperelli’s 1937 collection was inspired by ​a photograph of Dali taken by his wife Gala with one of her slippers balanced on his head.

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Emma Clark Gratton
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Emma Clark Gratton is an ArtsHub staff writer.