The Most Interesting Fashion Designers Right Now? Artists.

With the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute exhibitions regularly drawing record-breaking crowds and building a renewed interest in heritage couture brands like Schiaparelli or Jean Paul Gaultier, there’s no denying that fashion is an art form in and of itself. But lately, it seems like the coolest clothes you can buy are made by actual, literal artists — as in, people with a background in the fine arts who have moved into the fashion world. Dan Colen — the artist who once appeared on the cover of New York Magazine alongside Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley, and whose… Read Full Article