The Joy of Clothes on Canvas: How Painters Celebrate and Inspire Fashion

A new painting by Scottish painter Peter Doig, titled Alpinist, is set to hang as part of a new exhibition which opens this week at the Courtauld in London. Completed in 2022, it depicts a man wearing a brightly colored harlequin costume, eerily similar to the crystal-covered Egonlab jumpsuit worn by Harry Styles on the red carpet at this week's Grammy Awards. Their resemblance didn't go unnoticed by Doig, who posted an image of Styles in the Grammys set on Instagram, complete with a pair of skis and a backpack of the original painting crudely added. A fabulously knowing wink from the artist – and another excellent flip-flop between art and fashion.

From the Lucian Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum from London, to the upcoming Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the opening of the blockbuster Basquiat x Warhol at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris in April - when it comes to reinventing the way we dress, there has fashion inspiration in every gallery.

This collision is not new. Elsa Schiaparelli worked with Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dalí in the 1930s, and the brand she founded continues to be talked about under its current designer, Daniel Roseberry, who created the lion-headed dress Kylie Jenner's controversial show for Paris Fashion Week last month. But it's Andy Warhol, who began his career as a fashion illustrator for Vogue, who remains the most fashionable of them all, from creating portraits of Halston and Giorgio Armani, to posing with Basquiat in his outfit. boxing Everlast, at the appearance of his work on Versace dresses and Uniqlo T-shirts. spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class= " dcr-173mewl">

Doig already has a fashion form too. In 2021, he collaborates with Dior's creative director of men's fashion, Kim Jones, on an autumn/winter collection. “We looked at his paintings of men, skiers, ice hockey players and the night sky,” Jones told Vogue. In another collection, Jones worked with Ghanaian artist