How an erotic, religious painting became one of Fashion Week's favorite motifs
VOGUE MAGAZINE
By Steff Yotka
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s solo debut at Valentino was the talk of Paris Fashion Week, thanks in part to one shocking pink shaved-velvet car coat—it’s the piece on every editor’s wish list—but mostly to a collaboration with legendary designer Zandra Rhodes. For the Spring collection, Rhodes was given Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th-century painting The Garden of Earthly Delights as a jumping-off point. Rhodes’s line drawings of erupting volcanoes and flying birds made for beautiful prints on Piccioli’s floating dresses, so lovely, you might even forget that the original source material features such shocking scenes of orgies and bestiality. [link]
By Steff Yotka
Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthy Delights circa 1500, Museo del Prado, Madrid |