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December 13, 2007 12:45 pm
Marc Jacobs recently confided to the Financial Times’ "How to Spend It" magazine that he was intimidated by art until he became seriously smitten by a painting of a dreamy, big-eyed brunette by the American artist Karen Kilimnik. Kilimnik’s 1996 "Mary Calling up a Storm" might have sparked the designer’s passion for art collecting, but it’s actually one of her least fashion-focused images. Yet Jacobs could not have selected a more suitable artist to lure him from la mode into art. Also fans are Mario Testino, whose photo of Kate Moss in the first issue of Russian Vogue was the inspiration for a Kilimnik painting, and Anna Sui. Kilimnik has been exhibiting her guileless drawings of models such as Moss, Twiggy, and Amber Valletta since the nineties, but her first—and long overdue—museum survey, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, opens on Friday at the Aspen Art Museum. It’s pretty much guaranteed to inspire admiration, adoration, and acquisitive yearning in another generation of budding artists and art-loving fashion figures.
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