Haim Steinbach: From Florence | Let There Be Art! - A review for the NY Times by Stefano Tonchi

By Stefano Tonchi for the New York Times

Pitti Immagine, the Florence-based fashion fair, is not new to mixing art and fashion. After all, Emilio Pucci started his career — not to mention the whole Italian fashion circus — here when he put family crests and modernist prints on jersey mini dresses and Lycra leggings.

"...In collaboration with Yvonne Force’s Art Production Fund, the two designers joined forces with three artists and created site-specific installations and performances throughout the rooms and the gardens of the magnificent and usually off-limits villa. A pristine sculpture by Haim Steinbach took over the elaborately frescoed central ballroom, where on a white clinical background, the artist’s classic S&M objects — black rubber and metal cages — mingled with torturously high-heeled shoes and slick leather bags from the Proenza Schouler spring 2010 collection..."

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