Art Attack
L.A.'s Fashion Neighborhoods Get A Makeover
"Downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District changes looks more often than Madonna. Strolling the bustling neighborhood recently, we spotted a few new creative endeavors in random spots, including a slick Andre the Giant mural on a garage door around the corner from the California Market Center and curiously close to an Obey Giant ""mural on Olympic".
"Across the street from the Giant graphic and stuck on a parking sign at CMC is a monstrously cool graphic that mashes up popular fashion with pop culture. Frankenstein is apparently a David Bowie fan, sporting the Aladdin Sane thunderbolt makeup from the rocker’s famous 1973 album cover shot by iconic U.K. fashion and rock photographer Brian Duffy, who, coincidentally, is the subject of a current month-long exhibit at Rodeo Drive’s Stephen Webster boutique. Ol’ Bolthead tops off his look with Kanye West’s shady shades that were all the rage a few years ago and those iconic Mouse ears that everyone from Madonna to Marilyn Manson has at one time used as a fashion statement."
"The colorful display pictured on the left added some vibrancy to an alleyway door in the Fashion District, but unfortunately, it didn’t last long. A fresh coat of gray paint pushed the graphics back into obscurity a few days after it surfaced last week. Perhaps not everyone is a fan of Anchorman nor creative civil disobedience.
"Downtown L.A.’s Fashion District isn’t the only stylish neighborhood that doubles as an "ever-changing "outdoor urban art gal"lery. We spotted equally interesting bursts of creativity and dynamic graphic designs splashed across the city's other notable fashion nooks and shopping centers, including Robertson Boulevard, Melrose Avenue and the Sunset Strip.
"A five-foot Keith Haring-inspired pop art tribute to the Madonna – the other Madonna -- decorates a metal light box on Robertson Boulevard. Coincidentally enough, the heavenly "mixed media " masterpiece is located around the bend from True Religion and All Saints Spitalfield.
The awesome graphic begs to be put on a designer T-shirt of handbag. Not far from the Virgin Mary artwork is an original statement left by visiting U.K. pop art phenom Banksy that adorns a gas station wall in the famous fashion district. "
"We don’t know what it is about the City of Angels' fashionable neighborhoods that attracts some of the city’s most dynamic street artists, but we’re not complaining.
