Monthly Archives: March 2015

This Spring, works of art made their way down the runway in New York for Fashion Week, inspiring emerging trends in the design world. We, here at Map Acte 3, have complied our favorite looks and linked them to some of our favorite works of art. By doing so, we have watched the work of everyone from Carolina Herrera to Victor Vasarely strut down the runway.

Artist-designer collaborations have become stronger, with fashion designers hiring artists to design their runways and collaborating with them in order to create unique, artistic collections, season by season. The relationship between fashion and art has never been stronger, as evidenced by the Spring Fashion Weeks of 2015. We have come to see fashion an art as mirrors for each other. Explore some of the most memorable art reflections from Spring 2015 New York Fashion Week.

Carolina Herrera – Susanne Stahli

Betsy Johnson – Didier Monti-Xhoffer

Mara  Hoffman – Nicolas le Beaun Benic

Sipuma – Georgia O’Keeffe

Tory Burch – Mark Rothko

Despite our clear vision for the year, 2015 is looking abstract for Map Acte 3. This year we are highlighting the new artwork of two female abstract artists: Alison Black and Chantal Talbot. What these artists have in common is their talent for abstraction and their incredible ability of capturing movement, through their unique brushwork and focus on texture. While their styles and concepts differ immensely, Black’s and Talbot’s talents are evident in their works of art.

Some of you may be familiar with the work of Alison Black from our website. Although she has previously focused on creating works, featuring portraits of familiar faces from popular culture, our latest collection of Black’s work features vibrant and active brush strokes that come together to create warm and lively pieces of art. Black creates expressive scenes through her use of energetic hues and evocative applications of color. These abstract works generate emotion in ways unlike her portraits, but use the same powerful colors to do so.

Talbot, on the other hand, uses subdued and monochromatic palettes in order to express movement and life in her active seascapes. Her artwork represents a conflict – as cool, peaceful hues take on the form of an active, tormented ocean. These dark scenes communicate the force of the sea. Talbot’s work is emotional – full of passion and action.

These expressive works of art have been added to the Map Acte 3 collection for the year 2015, bringing some life and action into the new year.

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