“Collaboration and dialogue with other artists is a great way to bring the work to a new place,” said Williams.
Fashion designers are coming out of the pandemic looking not only for new ways of working, but new moods to reflect the purgatory-like state of late 2021. Matthew M. Williams has found both atwith the help of the American artist Josh Smith, whose ceramic sculptures and Grim Reaper paintings are rendered in vibrant, joyous colors. Together, they’ve translated the happy-freaky mood of Smith’s artistic practice to Williams’s spring 2022 collection to be presented in Paris this evening.
Smith and Williams in the Givenchy atelier, surrounded by accessories made with a silkscreen designed by Smith. The gasoline canister is a rendition of Smith's 2014 ceramic workEven in the small preview seen here, the tonal shift in Williams’s Givenchy is evident. The most obvious change? A lot less black and a lot more color, with Givenchy logos and motifs pulled from the psychedelic palette of Smith’s Reaper paintings.
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