06/12/2025
Andy Warhol: Fashion, curated by Vincent Fremont
Opening July 9:
5pm: Panel conversation with Vincent Fremont, Dianne Brill, and Jack Pierson
6-8pm: Opening Reception
Andy Warhol: Fashion, curated by Vincent Fremont at Anton Kern Gallery, features a selection of Warhol’s drawings from the 1950s and ’60s. These 48 drawings—of women in corsets, tutus, and furs, of loving couples and reclining male nudes—take his fascination with fashion and the human form well beyond his early commercial assignments. Created in ink, graphite, and colored pencil on tracing paper, many of the drawings use Warhol’s now-signature “blotted line” technique, in which he traced photographs to produce delicate, broken contours with a calligraphic quality. These drawings grew directly out of Warhol’s early commercial practice—refining techniques, subjects, and stylistic choices first developed in the pages of magazines and store ads.
To underscore Warhol’s enduring interest in the body and the world of fashion, Fremont has chosen to include four rarely screened episodes from Fashion, a television series he produced for Warhol in 1979–1980 for Manhattan Cable Channel 10, alongside director Don Munroe. Fashion was Warhol’s concept: a half-hour exposé that would delve into fashion designers’ companies and projects, both on and off the runway. At the start of most episodes, Warhol would appear briefly holding an SX-70 Polaroid camera-–the same one he carried around with him everywhere—saying “Fashion” before snapping a photo of the viewer. As Fremont explains: “Andy was both the executive producer and logo of the series.”
Pictured:
Andy Warhol
Female Fashion Figure, ca. 1957
Ink and graphite on paper
27 x 21 inches (68.6 x 53.3 cm)
Andy Warhol
Male Ge****ls With Bow, ca. 1956
Graphite on tracing paper
21 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches (framed) (55.2 x 42.5 cm)
19 x 13 1/4 inches (paper) (48.3 x 33.7 cm)
Still from Fashion: Male Models, by Andy Warhol T.V. Productions. 1982. U-Matic videotape, duration 27 minutes. (© Andy Warhol Museum, courtesy Andy Warhol Museum).
