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The interface between art harbors timeless fascination. Artists find themselves turning to fashion as a vehicle for reflecting on questions of cultural or social identity, a mirror of pertinent issues concerned with the body, politics, economics or ecology. Couturiers draw inspiration from art and its propositions to create unwearable sculptured apparel dramatically set against elaborate installations. Tracing the connections between art and fashion, this study explores over 100 artists and coutouriers in theme based dialogues on the multilayered aspects of dre