On sale on October 3 alongside the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the fashion magazine has produced six limited edition covers in total with art works from Tracey Emin, Martin Creed, Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Jeff Koons and Yayoi Kusama.
Five, (not including Koons), of the covers feature never-before-seen artwork, and three have been specially-commissioned works for Harper’s Bazaar (Emin, Creed, Kusama).
Bazaar ART is a 76pp perfect-bound magazine, belly-banded with the November edition of Harper’s Bazaar. To be produced annually, Bazaar ART explores both fashion’s influence on art and the art of fashion. It will be made available to Bazaar’s more than 117,000 readers in print and digital form.
Bazaar ART, sponsored by Bentley Motors, is an integrated multi-platform partnership which includes promotions and advertising within the magazine, bespoke video for harpersbazaar.co.uk featuring Bentley’s head of exterior design, Sang Yup Lee, and glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, and a party to launch Bazaar ART at Halcyon Gallery on October 3.
The November launch issue features an investigation by Hannah Rothschild about Nazi looted art, as well as Sarah Lucas (photographed by Juergen Teller) talking about her art and moving from London to the Suffolk countryside. Other articles focus on Jeff Koons, Chinese landscape art (on the eve of an exhibition at the V&A), British photographer Hannah Starkey, Andy Warhol’s original illustrations for Bazaar, this year's Venice Biennale and Sam Taylor-Johnson’s photographs of Coco Chanel’s apartment in Paris.
Since joining Bazaar in September 2012, Editor-in-Chief, Justine Picardie, has woven more art into the magazine, with recent commissions including an investigative piece on the National Gallery’s rediscovered Titian, a 12pp feature dedicated to unravelling the stories behind 12 couture dresses from the V&A archive, and the creation of limited edition covers as part of a partnership with the V&A, including a Tracey Emin cover to celebrate the David Bowie exhibition.
Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in-Chief, Justine Picardie says: “Art is playing an even more integral role in the way Harper’s Bazaar strives to delight and intrigue its affluent, intelligent and stylish readers. Bazaar has an important voice in the art world, both as a commentator and commissioner of new art works, and I’m delighted that we have been able to produce a beautiful and thought-provoking new supplement dedicated to art in every form, that will be both informed and informative and offer an exclusive insider guide.”
As well as the UK, Bazaar ART is also published in the following international editions – Arabia, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Russia.
