There’s hardly a less satisfying fusion between art and fashion than the “artist estate x luxury fashion brand” product trend we’ve witnessed so often in recent years (Andy Warhol x Calvin Klein, David Wojnarowicz x JW Anderson, and so on). In such conspicuous deals, audiences are left to adorn themselves with expensively licensed TIFF files on cheap cotton sold at hefty prices. To call out the superficiality of this trend is precisely to highlight its inherent relation to surface: Textile is treated as canvas and painting as pattern, now washable at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 

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