Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol

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Marc Jacobs. By Glenn O'Brien. Interview. June / July 2008. 

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"His collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince have shaken things up in both the fashion and art worlds. Not to mention advertising that looks like art and boutiques that feel like clubs. Andy Warhol used to talk about the best art being business art. And it would be hard to find someone who has done more to apply to an artist's thinking of running a creative big business than Marc Jacobs." (Glenn O'Brien)

"It's not my fault! I just have interests outside the superficial world of fashion" (Marc Jacobs)

"I started to thinking in romantic terms, and I always thought back to the time of Schiaparelli and Chanel and Cocteau, when all these creative people seemed to be doing things together. They where influenced by Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, and fashion and art had a chance, you know?" (Marc Jacobs)

"And what I wanted to do, in the same way as Serge [Gainsbourg] had done, was deface it. The way that Duchamp had done with L.H.O.O.Q., by putting this moustache on [the Mona Lisa] and making it something hipper, a little bit anarchic, and just cooler". 

"Takashi was so pleased with what we had done that he then had a show at Marianne Boesky Gallery where he showed his paintings, which were inspired by the work that we had done together. He had an actual art show of work that he had done after seeing the fashion show". 

"Whether you like it or not, there's a validity to it. For all the critics who made fun of the installation of a Vuitton shop within Takashi's MOCA exhibition...I saw it like Martin Kippenberger's subway grate, you know? It Challenged this sort of categorizing. Like, what is teh art here? Is it what's on the bag? Is it the action of buying the bag - that's the art? Is it watching the people buying the art? Because it's installed in an exhibition in a museum, it it some kind of conceptual performance piece? It operates on so many levels that it's hard to categorize." (Marc Jacobs)

Andy Warhol

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Warhol Memorabilia Philia. By Gelnn O'Brien. Interview. June / July 2008. 

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"Motorcycle jacket painted by Stefano Castronovo"

"Jean-Michel Basquiat painted Andy's scars on this turtleneck, probably inspired by the famous Richard Avedon photograph that revealed them". 

Giorgio Armani / Andy Warhol

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Giorgio Armani. Interview. June / July 2008. 

"Artists love artistry, so Andy Warhol loved making portraits of great creators. An iconic subject reflects on his image". (Giorgio Armani)

"Andy  stopped me  in a corridor for 10 seconds and took a photo to work of, and when the final photo was bought by GFT, he make quite a lot of money!" (Giorgio Armani)

"That is what Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting." (Giorgio Armani)

"He was not an art snob, and I liked that. He didn't think that being commercially popular meant that he was somehow less of an artist. This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake." (Giorgio Armani)

"Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art." (Andy Warhol)

"For myself, I can say that the secret is to remain true to your aesthetic vision, so that people can see that you really believe passionately in what you are doing. That way, they cab relate to your style. For me , this has meant not only adopting new fabric technology and ideas in clothing design but also applying my design vision to cars, furniture, flowers - even cakes! - and exploring collaborations outside the word of fashion, with film and football, for example. Andy's work shows a similar creative approach. He had a stye and he then applied it to different subjects in a way that was both recognizable and innovative at the same time. Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe." (Giorgio Armani)

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol / Interview

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Marc by Marc Jacobs Men. Bleecker Street, New York.

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol / Interview

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Marc by Marc Jacobs Women. Bleecker Street, New York. 

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol

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Fifteen and then some. Memo Pad. WWD. 05.19.08.

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"With a white mop of hair, crisp button-down shirt and tie, the designer looks mighty Warholian on the cover of the magazine's June-July double issue" (WWD)

"Andy was always talking about how new art is business art" (Glenn O'Brien)

"'I don't think of myself that way,'" he said. 'Warhol is Warhol. He's practically a god'. I thought, 'I'm going to get a lot of hell for this.'" (Marc Jacobs)

Richard Prince "The Girls of Battlestar Galactica"

"The Girls of Battlestar Galactica". Richard Prince. Interview. May 2008. 

Keith Mayerson "How Haute it is"

Keith Mayerson "How Haute it is". Interview. April 2008.