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The fall runways swung with sixties fervor, and the revival wasn’t limited to dolly birds and miniskirts—the art of the decade came into play as well. Perhaps not surprisingly, designers from Christopher Kane to Kenzo channeled the work of pioneering British painter of that free-wheeling decade, Bridget Riley, whose mesmerizing stripe paintings are currently on display at David Zwirner in London. The attraction is easy to understand: be it with a precise stroke of a brush on canvas or the exact placement of a seam, both artist and fashion designer are students of masters of illusion.
Riley’s seemingly abstract, geometric canvases are anything but static, they undulate and morph, fooling and delighting the eye. Using Op prints and precise geometric cutting, Dries Van Noten and Tomas Maier at Bottega Veneta, respectively, create similar dazzling effects as they fused art and fashion for fall. See the slideshow above.