Photo By Gail

This brushed polyester dress from Comme de Garcon’s spring 2018 Multidimensional Graffiti collection depicts artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s seventeenth-century painting of the Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, the Roman God of Seasons.

Arcimboldo  was known for his portraits depicting his subjects as a composite of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. The painting is viewed as an allegory, symbolizing the emperor as a ruler of all things. Designer Rei Kawakubo’s avant-garde silhouette, here flattened and evoking a canvas, adds a sense of grandeur to this food-meets-fashion artistic display.

Photographed at the Museum at FIT as part of the Exhibit, Food and Fashion.