Art Info

Fashion,
Peter Saville, 2010

Fetters table commissioned by Peter Saville

White leather | white galvanised steel

Overall size 27.5 x 47.2 x 74.8in | 70 x 120 x 190cm

How easy is it to ally fashion with the trussed restraint of the sexual tack-shop? According to celebrated art director, graphic designer and agent provocateur Peter Saville, easier than you might expect. Ten years after Madonna laced herself into Gaultier's infamous reclamation of Mainbocher's corset and in the midst of a S/S season dominated by underwear as outerwear from the sublime (check Christopher Kane and Christian Dior) to the ridiculous (the less said about tatty high-street nylon negligees the better), Saville's visual collision of the erotically charged laced corset and the fetishistic extremity of a rope bondage-table is especially fitting. Custom-crafted in virginal white, Saville's strapped-up slab fuses fetish, fashion and the ready-made art object in an aesthetic tradition dating back to Duchamp, and his sardonically-monikered Fountain.

£7,500