Art and fashion have always been intertwined. Fashion imitating art, art imitating fashion. As Maria’s bio asks: “Can you find art in fashion? Or is art just in fashion?”
Either way, it is always wonderful seeing collages and comparisons between modern fashion and art that has been around many years. It’s quite different from direct inspiration that influences fashion editorials, I find more pleasure in those discovered randomly and I think most of the following stumbled upon these similarities.
These are the people I find that are doing these highlighting extremely well:
Art-lexa Chung is run by two sisters who are obsessed with Alexa Chung – and art, of course. Going through the many comparisons they’ve done with this fashion model and pieces of art, I got a little spooked… because, how? How is this coincidence? I am stunned.
“Blonde Wearing a Lace Collar” by Chantal Joffe (2012) / Alexa Chung by Thomas Schenk for ELLE UK.
“Young Woman in Oriental Garb (La Sultane)” by Édouard Manet (1871) / Alexa in @chloe at Coachella 2015
“Portrait of Baronne Madeleine Deslandes” by Edward Burne-Jones (1895) / Alexa Chung, Valentino SS11 show.
“Girl with a Polka-dot Blouse” by Amedeo Modigliani (1919) / Alexa Chung in Gucci
“Reclining Woman in a White Chemise” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1909) / Alexa Chung x Fray I.D.
“The South Wind (also known as The Breezy Day)” by Charles Courtney Curran (c.1917) / Alexa Chung at Coachella by Brantley Gutierrez
“Helen Dunham” by John Singer Sargent (1892) / Alexa in Chanel, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014.
“Lady in a Fur Wrap” by El Greco (c.1580) also attributed to Sofonisba Anguissola /Alexa LFW.
“Seated Girl Facing Front” by Egon Schiele (1911) / Alexa Chung for Netaporter, 2011
No matter what comparisons Miss Moss is doing, she does them excellently well – be it finding similarities between street style and food/sweets, between fashion and drama, or between a fashion collection and vintage travel posters. There is no doubt that she is the queen of this. Dig through her archives.
Dancer In A Pink Dress, William James Glackens (1902) / Delpozo Spring 2014 collectionDolce & Gabbana / Vintage Travel Poster
Carl Larsson, “Rouge et Noir”/ Resort 2015 Collection by Tomas Maier
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Stockholm Street Style
Dolce & Gabbana / Vintage Travel Poster
Jacob Axel Gillberg, Nydia The Flower Girl / Delpozo Spring 2014 collection
Anders Zorn, “Sol I Skogen” (Sun In The Forest) / Valentino Pre-Fall 2015 Collection
Peder Mork Monstred, Romantic Scene From Fredensborg Park / Valentino Pre-Fall 2015 Collection
Maria is excellent at these collages.. she puts these fashion models right into the situations of the paintings. 
Henry Matisse / Lily McMenamy
“But First, Let Me Take a Selfie!”/ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso / Cara de Levingne from British Vogue
“You Use Bedrooms the Wrong Way, Vincent” / Bedroom in Arles by Vincent Van Gogh / Karlie Kloss from Acne Studios Paper Magazine
“Gisele, give me a natural pose” /The Music Lesson by Vermeer / Gisele from Vogue Magazine April 2010
This Kid Really Thinks I Am a Bunny/ The Monet Family in the Garden in Argenteuil by Manet / Kate M0ss from Playboy magazine
“A Scotch on Rocks, Please.” / A Bar At The Folies-Bergère by Manet / Kate M0ss from Vogue Italia Jan 2015 Issue
- This Tumblr matches photos of hip-hop stars with classical paintings.
Detail of Christ Blessing surrounded by a Donor Family. Unknown German Painter 1560 – / Kanye West 
Detail of “The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence,” oil on wood, by Masters of the Acts of Mercy (Austrian, Salzburg, c. 1465) / ASAP Ferg 
Quentin Massys. Ecce Homo-1520 / 2 Chainz
Portrait of Henry the Pious, Duke of Saxony by Lucas Cranach – 1514 / Takeoff from Migos 
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci Piero di Cosimo c. 1480 / Rihanna for GQ Art Directed by Damien Hirst
That’s it for now. Are there any other platforms doing these that I should know? Please share!
(All photos are from websites/Instagram pages linked above.)
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I just knew you wrote this as soon as I got the email 🙂
I love! this post so much. It just gives and gives, It’s the perfect thing to read on a Friday morning. Might as well be a full breakfast spread 🙂
I’ve always been somewhat hesitant to get into Alexa Chung because it’s almost impossible for one person to be constantly right yet there she is.
I’ve never ever seen her make a bad fashion choice and that’s not human and it scares me but I can’t look away. It makes sense for all these comparisons to happen and make sense as she’s art’s perfect muse.
I adore the b4-16 blog!
On a similar but very different note on the juxtaposition of art and observers, I love the tumblr that’s about bored security guards standing idly in galleries.
http://boredgalleryguards.tumblr.com/
Haha! Thanks for the kind words, Dammy. Yes, Alexa is so put-together and gorgeous and perfect. I legit couldn’t believe how fitting some of those paintings were!
That Tumblr is hilarious! I think I’d lose my mind if that was my job.
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LOVE THIS!