Men’s knitwear designs: wearable works of art?
Men’s knitwear designs: wearable works of art?
These knitwear designs for spring ensure we’re wearing our art on our sleeve
Roll-neck, £2300; trousers, £1150, both by Dior.
Fashion: Jason Hughes
There’s long been debate about whether fashion design constitutes art, but for S/S 2021, men’s knitwear creations made a convincing creative argument. A host of brands used clothing as a canvas, interpreting the gestural strokes of figurative portraiture and the globulous bulges of ceramic forms within their folds.
At Dior, Kim Jones was compelled by the emotive and bold brushstrokes of Ghanaian portraitist Amoako Boafo, who had his first solo exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Chicago last autumn. In a tactile and tonal twist, a figure inspired by Boafo’s oil on canvas ‘Yellow Dress’ has been translated into an intarsia motif on a cashmere roll neck.
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