Venice will this week welcome 1000’s extra guests from internationally with the opening of its sixtieth Biennale, exhibiting the work of greater than 330 taking part artists from some 90 nations. However very similar to London’s Frieze, Miami’s Artwork Basel or Milan’s Salone del Cellular, the commerce present has more and more positioned itself as a fashion-adjacent occasion. (Burberry is the headline sponsor of the British Pavilion, Tod’s will assist the Italian pavilion and Louis Vuitton is internet hosting its personal exhibition on the espace Louis Vuitton.)
And so nice swathes of celebrities, influencers and international model ambassadors will quickly rub shoulders with the artwork world, amongst them Salma Hayek—the spouse of Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault—who final night time attended a pre-opening dinner on the Fondazione Cini wearing vertiginous platforms and an hourglass robe lower from tendrilous sequins. These well-known proportions maybe rivaling among the metropolis’s most stomach-soaring structure, Hayek—like Hunter Schafer’s ode to van Gogh final week—has managed to align her personal picture with the may of superb artwork itself.
I do surprise what the extra prescriptivist artwork varieties—ie. those that are inclined to cloak themselves in a extra austere, Yohji Yamamoto type of look—make of all these well-known folks of their shimmering sequins posing on step and repeats. There’s rather a lot the artwork world can study from style (and vice versa), and when the 2 converge it creates an actual see-and-be-seen spectacle. That’s one thing Hayek—the twinkling nexus in her strapless bodycon—is aware of all too nicely.
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