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s previously discussed, the Surrealist movement opened up a new avenue for fashion designers to explore. The collaboration between Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali was one of the first notable designs inspired by art and there have been many artists who have gone on to work with fashion designers. A style of art that has grown in popularity and is commonly used within collaborations is pop art. A classic example of this art work is an Andy Warhol painting including Yves Saint Laurent from 1974. This piece of art is similar to other pieces of Warhol’s work in terms of style as it uses his signature ‘four equal quadrants’. The painting itself is not a ‘garment of accessory per se, the object stands a reflection of the intimate ties between the culture of fashion and art’ (Agnautacouture). This trend of pop art collaborations has been carried on years later with modern examples such as, the 2012 Jimmy Choo X Rob Pruitt collection where they created accessories that included ‘elements that define Pruitt’s own artwork… [including] plenty of glitter, sprinkles, vibrant degrade colour, and panda motifs’ (Carly Wolkoff, Interview magazine).
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