Vanessa Beecroft and WallPaper freeze-framed fashion into art and back again. The artist rallied her troops and sent them into action in a vivid display of passion and naked glory. The women in the Italian artist’s performance typically wear little more than garish wigs and killer heels, arranged in carefully composed clusters, they stand for hours, gazed at by the crowds a high-art girlie show inevitably pulls.
Real women turn the surface sheen of the glossies inside out, they also testify to fashion imagery’s complicated appeal.
