more evidence of decline: $4,000 jeans
http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/118784?page=1
FAME GAME: Art merged with fashion at the Warhol Factory X Levi’s X
Damien Hirst show over the weekend, with two showings at the Gagosian
Gallery in Chelsea. “It’s about cross-pollination,” said Levi’s
creative director Adrian Nyman as to why the denim giant chose to
collaborate with Hirst. What resulted was a nearly 60-piece
collection of Hirst-inspired or codesigned wares expected to retail
at Barneys New York, Fred Segal and American Rag Cie. Hirst and
Warhol fans including director Larry Clark, Greek shipping heir
Stavros Niarchos, André Balazs, Mary-Kate Olsen, Vincent Gallo,
Malcolm McLaren and Casey Spooner viewed the wearable art on a runway
that resembled Hirst’s “spot” works to a prerequisite soundtrack of
The Velvet Underground, The Clash, David Bowie and Blondie. “Andy was
always very fashion-oriented anyway, in this case it seems like a
rather seamless thing,” said Balazs, who happens to own pieces by
both Hirst and Warhol. While Hirst was nowhere in sight — he was said
to be behind the scenes — the audience applauded the Swarovski
crystal skull pattern jeans that will retail for $3,500-$4,000 and
the finale looks, which were cut from a large canvas of white denim
upon which Hirst created an original spin art painting.