A Clothing Collection Inspired by the Bauhaus

The daughter of Los Angeles-based artists, fashion designer Rosetta Getty bought her first artwork, a Robert Motherwell painting, with her earnings as a teenage model. Today, her collection includes pieces by Olympia Scarry, Wolfgang Tillmans and Piero Golia. Still, Getty says she’s “slow to acquire a work of art,” and has a habit of visiting a piece multiple times over several months as she considers whether it might have place in her life. “It doesn’t go from the gallery to a storage facility. Not only do I have to love the work, but I have to live in its presence.” Her clothing designs feel like a natural extension of this lifelong pursuit: for nearly every season of her five-year-old line, Getty has collaborated with an artist, “intuitively picking” an individual or movement that she wants to explore, and continuing the Getty family tradition of supporting the art community. One can see how she’s made that legacy her own with the easy drape of a tangerine satin slip dress she conceived of after seeing Anna Ostoya’s vibrant abstract paintings, say, or a ruched blouse that recalls the medical tubing in Hayden Dunham’s installations. “The process of working with an artist is very similar to my process of collecting,” Getty says, “With some, we might have met for a studio visit years before and had the opportunity to get to know each other over time. I think that can make for the best, deepest collaborations.”

Source: The New York Times

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