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The surrealist artists and designers of the 1920’s brought cultural issues such as racism and sexism to the art world. Not just art for art’s sake, the surrealism movement conveyed a way of thinking and sometimes a political position.

Popular Surrealist artists and designers included: Magritte, Man Ray, Rene’, Max Ernest, Frida Kahlo, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli. These visionaries created a fantasy world using dreamlike imagery which was eccentric, shocking and mysterious. In almost photographic detail, artistic worlds were created that distorted reality with contradictory elements, eerie associations and what I like to call “creepy cool” vibes. These designs say “look at me—again!”

Underlying themes that punctuate the Surrealism landscape are eroticism, socialism, dreams and the subconscious, atheism and symbolism. The art world revitalized Surrealism art forms in 2021 and 2022, with exhibits at the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam all happening in similar time frames. It was just the push this fantastical style needed to become the most talked about art movement in 2022.

Part of the 2022 conversation started in 2021 with the Schiaparelli Fall collection. Leather jackets and corsets featured exaggerated shapes with body parts and eyeballs used in unexpected places and ways. The beauty combined with an uncomfortable experience, set the design world on its’ proverbial ear.

In Surrealistic fashion, garments become objects. Elements placed out of context, slightly skewed, take on a bizarre or fantastical look. Our understanding of clothing is challenged and our perception of this takes us to a new reality.

Take a ride in the dreamlike reality that Kat Day Gomez and I have created for your Surrealistic pleasure!

The Painter

Taking Inspiration from…

this polka dot blazer by Uoozee… to the under current of

Kat hand painted this cream vintage 80’s dress from my collection with polka dots in various sizes. The hand painted dimension and graphic quality draw you in to our first story line —“Painter”.

Displaying subtle eroticism on another vintage 80’s dress, these “hands” speak to sexism in a playful way. Kat hand sewed vintage fringe to her painted hands for added movement and texture.

Also inspired by Salvador Dalí, this slightly grotesque mask fabricated by Kat, speaks multiple personalities and dreamlike visions.

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The hand painted shirt on a shirt, takes fantasy into reality.

Props are accessories!

Painted props also become part of the reality in our next inspiration —“Urban Leisure."

Here, a simple bouquet of paper flowers is reduced down to its most basic form. In black and white, the flowers’ flatness becomes almost cartoon-like, inspiring the viewer to take a deeper look and wonder what the relationship really is here.

Eyes on the binoculars and prop lips dive deeper into seeing and saying.