24 times fashion designers got their beat from music and hit the right note.
, it struck me that there should be more talk about music and fashion than there is about fine art and fashion. Not only are pop stars and hip-hop stars and rap stars the style icons of our day, but we relate to them on a highly personal level; smartphones allow us to take their tunes wherever we go. Look around you on the train, in the office, at the grocery store checkout, and more often than not those earbuds everybody is wearing are delivering the sound of music.
Of course, music and musicians have long inspired designers in ways both concrete and abstract. Take punk rock, for example: The movement that gave birth to it is dead, but the aesthetic will never die, as long as designers can get their hands on black leather and studs.When designers aren’t conjuring the overall look of a musical genre, they might be channeling the style of a specific performer.
ready-to-wear show was peopled with doppelgängers of the likes of David Bowie, Grace Jones, Boy George, and Annie Lennox. Madonna in her “Material Girl” phase and Jimmy Hendrix are also frequently referenced.Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2013 ready-to-wearThere are times, too, when fashion is just about the basic elements of music itself: notes and instruments.
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