One Mimics the Other

Where do Fashion Photographers go for inspiration? Great Artists, of course! From black & white photographer Ansel Adams to surrealist painter Salvador Dali, it seems that good things do come back, even if it is in a glossy magazine selling clothes.....future generations of genius.

Ansel Adams

Prada

Ansel Adams

Prada

Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924

Moschino's "?" Dress

Salvador Dali, Woman With a Head of Roses, 1935

Marc Jacobs, Trompe L'Oeil beaded dress, 1986.

Photograph by: Josef Astor from Fashion and Surrealism by Richard Martin, Rizzoli NY

Francois Lesage, French (b. 1929) Hand Belt, 1986.

From: Fashion and Surrealism by Richard Martin, Rizzoli NY

Leonardi di Vinci's Vitruvian Man

Photo by Annie Leibovitz for the Lavazza 2009 calender

Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Balenciaga

Balenciaga

Next time your flipping through your fashion magazine, keep your eye out for new versions of well known art. It might surprise you how much has been re-interpreted!