Clothes Encounters | The fashion collection at Barneys Deste

 "It's hard to mix fashion and art," said Helmut Lang at the party to unveil the new window installation at Barneys New York in Midtown. An artist and a former fashion designer, white, long, of which he speaks. But fashion and art last night came together very well, especially through the control and mixing of the evening: Dennis Freedman, creative director of Barneys, and Greek art collector Dakis Joannou, the founder Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, which showcases his destefashioncollection works, including a huge portrait of Yves Saint Laurent photographer Juergen Teller through a multimedia package with a Viktor & Rolf asymmetric evening gown and tulle, a computer printer, which the poet Patrizia Cavalli, and commentary on politics long minimalist fashion, "Front Row". The real action was not in the streets, but the ninth floor of the shop where the artist John Bock on a large platform surrounded by mountains of old clothes and a cast of three agile (and was apparently very open display) seamstresses. During the evening, Franks Steined Bock makeover and, say, a pair of pants and a T-shirt, old, or a T-shirt, jeans and an old sock, and called the guests of the audience to model them. The goal was to bear all her clothes room, crazy pants deconstructed shirts or get three armies until the end of the evening. "It is difficult to make something inspired on the spot," one guest noted that the study material for the next buck outfit. And it is true that the progress of the artist was slow, the process was ultimately more fascinating than any end in success. He did not know it sounds simple, but it's certainly let it look like fun.