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Of mice and models: artworks take centre stage at Loewe fashion show
Works by Paul Thek and Susan Sontag feature in show of fashion house known for turning esoteric references into wider ideas
Scattered on the floor were tiny mice from Paul Thek’s 1975 Personal Effects of the Pied Piper Series, a 1966 copy of Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation and a 1898 high-backed wooden Argyle chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Held at the Garde Républicaine’s Célestins barracks in the 4th arrondissement, the vast indoor arena usually used for exercising horses had been transformed into a sterile gallery show space. Sweaters were painted to look like cable knits while the hem of a trenchcoat was wired upwards giving the impression the wearer was caught in a gust of wind.
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