For the past 10 years fashion has fed from and reacted to the enormous energy of pop music – arguably the most powerful artistic movement of the century. Of them all, no artistic movement fitted fashion so successfully as surrealism. The fact is that high fashion is, and always has been a surrealist movement in that it deals constantly with the unexpected and inappropriate. Tim Walker: a fashion fairytale Read moreHigh fashion is surrealist because it brings unreality into the real world. For the true surrealism of fashion go to any costume museum or old fashion magazine.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 04:30 UTC