Antwaun Sargent: Rethinking Our Boundaries

Art and fashion are being redefined by new, creative voices who
transcend the old high and low art boundaries. 


“Visual artists were thought to be less serious if they
collaborated with fashion brands or if they appeared in fashion
magazines, and now you have folks operating in a real post-medium
condition,” says the writer, editor and curator Antwaun
Sargent, on Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast.
“It's really encouraging to see Carrie Mae
Weems, for example, just shoot the latest Prada
campaign.”


Sargent is the author and curator of The New Black Vanguard:
Photography Between Art and Fashion, the acclaimed publication
and touring exhibition that is on view at Cleveland Museum of Art
through mid-September 2022. He is also a director at Gagosian, a
global network of art galleries, and he is currently working on
an exhibition developed with the late Virgil
Abloh, former artistic director of Louis Vuitton's
menswear collection. Abloh’s fluidity was influential on the
boundaryless creativity today, says Sargent. “One day, one hour,
he's designing a dress, the next hour he's designing a sculpture,
the next he's making music.”


Sargent talks with host Pari Ehsan about the
Abloh show, about the dissolving of boundaries between art and
fashion today, and about diversity and inclusion and how to do it
authentically. “It's less for me about some stale notion of
inclusivity or diversity, and more about allowing folks to fully
express themselves in this space that they should have always had
a claim to,” he says.


This fluidity between disciplines – art, fashion, food,
publishing – is also visible on Rodeo Drive, where luxury brands
and fashion houses that once mainly sold clothing now offer
curated exhibition and retail spaces and even restaurants. Field
Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright checks out
stores including Saint Laurent and its current Rive Droite
installation conceived by the house's Creative Director
Anthony Vaccarello and exclusive to its Paris
and Rodeo Drive boutiques.


Rive Droite features surfboards and furniture made in
collaboration with Hervet Manufacturier, along
with lighters and playing cards, branded headphones, footwear and
bags, vinyl, art and design magazines and books. This really
expands on how “the art collector is intersecting in the fashion
world and those from the fashion side are collecting objects,”
says Wright, adding, “it's a beautiful way of seeing this
evolution of the stores being more than just a retail space and a
point of experience for the world.”


Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the
Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly
Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A
Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors
Bureau, and MCM.


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Season Three Credits:


Executive Producer: Lyn Winter


Host: Pari Ehsan


Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright


Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton


Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad


Theme music by Brian Banks


Production Assistant: Grace Fuh





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