Art and Fashion

In celebration of Christian Dior's 60th anniversary, 45 models trotted the longest runway in fashion show history in extravagant gowns inspired by art masterpieces and muses. Naomi Campbell paraded an exotic Goya-inspired creation whilst Linda Evangelista go out of bed to be a Caravaggio muse, Helena Christensen modeled a dress inspired by Hans Holbein and Shalom Harlow was the muse of Michelangelo. Gisele Bündchen opened the show in a black "Bar Suit" inspired by Irving Penn's iconic photographs capturing Dior's "New Look". Below, some of my favorites and the paintings and drawings which I speculate inspired them. Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Dance To The Moulin Rouge".
Most famous for being the artist behind "Girl With A Pearl Earring", Dutch master Johannes Vermeer's "Guitar Player" was painted in 1672.Aubrey Beardsley's provocative drawings included "The Peacock Skirt" from 1892.
Portrait painter Giovanni Boldini's "Luisa Casati".Edgar Degas brought ballet classes to real life in paintings such as "Dance Class".Pablo Picasso's "Paul as Harlequin".
Jean Cocteau's drawings.

Feauturing tiny dots of multi-coloured paint, Georges-Pierre Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on The Island of Grande Jatte" took two years to complete.