![]() We now buy canvases and textiles to paint and create. ![]() One can tell as much about a culture by the paintings it produces as by the dresses and articles of clothing it uses for individual and collective expression. There is no place we can point to and say that this or that object does not belong to the sphere of art. Who we are, what we see, and what we experience is interconnected and interrelated. Everything that exists and surrounds us is a product of the society we live in. The convergence of art and fashion is symbiotic. It helps us artistically communicate who we are, who we want to be, where we are going, and where we have been. Fashion is a manifestation of human art and communication. He or she becomes an artist and a full participant. The person wearing the designed piece is having a conversation with the designer and an audience. Fashion only exists as long as there is an actor to incarnate it. Just like in Abramović’s performance art, the fashion designer creates artwork that needs another person for its completion. In her 2010 The Artist is Present MoMa exhibit, Abramović asked the viewer to sit silently across from her and stare at each other for as long as the viewer wanted to look and be looked at. One needs only to think about pioneer performer Marina Abramović and the way in which she engages the viewer to become part of her work to realize the connection. But fashion is one of the purest expressions of art because it is art lived on a daily basis. Historically, fashion has rarely been elevated to the same stature as painting, music, sculpture or architecture.
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