Let’s go back to the 50s. Before being hailed as the Pope of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was an illustrator for Harper’s Bazaar. His fantastical and colorful illustrations for beauty products would make designer and friend of his Diane Von Furstenberg say that he “revolutionized fashion by instilling flashy colors”. What Warhol loved in fashion was without a doubt the very essence of it – just as avant-garde as it was a “popular” art. Andy was addicted to fashion, as evidenced by his addiction for Berlutti’s square-toed moccasins. More proof, he founded the magazine Interview in 1969, one of the most influential of its time; anyone who was anyone in fashion, cinema, or art made an appearance. Great designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Halston, and YSL regularly graced its pages, while models like Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger often posed for it. Warhol influenced the biggest and best, from Frank Gehry to Monsieur Saint Laurent, who he thought of as “the greatest living French artist of the century.” Indeed, the artist would even go on to create four screen prints of the young designer.
But what’s left of Andy Warhol today? An enormous amount of artists lay claim to his conception, as he foreshadowed the multimedia era, and with it, an expansion of artistic abilities. From September 12th to the 14th, 40 works by this visionary will be put on display at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. The exhibit From Warhol, With Love will go back on a large part of the artist’s work done on paper; without any overhead theme, you’re led to discover some of the artist’s most coveted works such as “Ladies and Gentlemen and Flowers”. The works will then be put up for auction; finally, the chance to buy something from a large cross section of his works, and maybe even get the chance to open or obtain a window into his imagination.
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