The Art Angle Podcast: Why Art and Fashion Need Each Other Now

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that
delves into the places where the art world meets the real world,
bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew
Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in
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writers and editors as well as artists, curators, and other top
experts in the field.

For its first-ever live episode, recorded at the 2020 Armory
Show, the Art Angle brought on couture wunderkind Sander Lak, the
creative director of the white-hot Sies Marjan, to discuss the
intersection of art and fashion.

The Dutch designer, who named his label after his parents,
strutted out onto the sartorial landscape in 2016 with his debut
collection, and he was officially anointed by the high-fashion
establishment in 2018 when the esteemed Council of Fashion
Designers of America (CFDA) named him its Best New Designer. His
collections are defined by deep jewel-tones and streamlined, sleek
silhouettes that are beloved by celebrities and mere mortals
alike—and as a longtime art enthusiast, Lak consistently finds
fascinating ways to incorporate the work of boundary-pushing
contemporary artists into his work.

At the time of this conversation, the Guggenheim Museum in New
York had just unveiled the epic exhibition “Countryside, the Future,” an examination of the
pastoral in an urbanized world by the visionary starchitect Rem
Koolhaas and his studio, OMA. Sies Marjan, helmed by Lak, signed on
as a sponsor of the exhibition, and Lak was given unrestricted
access to Koolhaas and his trove of research on the show to mine as
inspiration for his Fall 2020 fashion line.

The result was more than a new collection of rustic
accoutrement. It became a point of reckoning for Lak and his
perspective on the fashion industry at large, as well as how his
practice—and the discipline at large—relates to contemporary
art.

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