When the line between art and fashion is blurred

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With her background in Art History, our Fashion Associate Carlotta recalls a particularly meaningful encounter with a painting:

On a warm summer night, during the opening of the Courtauld Gallery's exhibition ''Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality'', I was fortunate enough to stumble upon Richard Serra’s 'Courtauld Transparency #4'. His practice, firmly rooted in conceptualism, has always been a source of deep admiration for me. In this painting, an earthy, swriling, black mass erupts from a smooth surface, echoing Serra's belief that ‘nature has a particular way of drawing.’ Serra has always allowed, indeed sought, for the materials to ‘speak’ for themselves, to play a substantial role in the genesis and reception of his creations.

The rough surface of the painting, so textured and appealing, brought me back to the feeling I had when my hands first touched the Black Jacket. Serra had a deep awareness and mastery of materials and their properties, something I immediately noticed in Adrianne’s creative impetus.

In the Black Jacket, media – the leather – and technique – the design – are the protagonists of the show. Such a natural comparison between the painting and the jacket led me to regard Adrianne’s designs to be works of art. My decision to branch out into fashion was a natural progression of my artistic journey. My background in art inevitably brought me to see fashion as a form of art, where creativity, design, and aesthetics come together to create unique and compelling works. Adrianne Weber is perfectly nestled somewhere between these two worlds. ”