LIU BOLIN FOR HARPER’S BAZAAR

lavin’s alber elbaz gets painted into the french fashion brand’s jewel tone dresses and fabrics
photo by liu bolin
courtesy eli klein fine art, new york

Design Stories had presented Liu Bolin’s work on a previous post. Now the Chinese artist’s work in being featured on Harper’s Bazaar March 2012 issue. We took the story from Design Boom’s website

Harper’s bazaar magazine has Design Boom images of their latest collaboration with contemporary chinese artist liu bolin released in their march 2012 issue. Bolin is typically known to be the subject of his works, camouflaging himself into carefully selected environments. However for this project with the hearst magazines publication the artist has removed himself from being the focus of his work. Instead he celebrates four major fashion houses: jean paul gaultier, lanvin, missoni and valentino, by selecting their designers as his subjects and getting them to ‘lose themselves in their work’, painting them into their signature designs and patterns.

left: detail of alber elbaz of lanvin
right: photo of the painting process by laura brown

french designer jean paul gaultier gets lost in his iconic strips
photo by liu bolin
courtesy eli klein fine art, new york

left: jean paul gaultier being painted with photo by laura brown
right: detail of a stripe ridden jean paul gaultier with photo by liu bolin

angela missoni of italian brand missoni camouflaged into one of the label’s signature patterns
photo by liu bolin
courtesy eli klein fine art, new york

valentino’s maria grazia chiuri and pierpaolo piccioli hiding amongst the italian fashion house’s collection of red dresses
photo by liu bolin
courtesy eli klein fine art, new york

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