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What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next? | The New Yorker

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The Irish designer turned Loewe into fashion’s most coveted brand by radically reinterpreting classic garments. Now he seems poised to make over Dior.

In one of the grandest galleries of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, two large canvases are displayed alongside each other—an “Adam and Eve” painted by Titian, around 1550, and another rendering of the subject by Peter Paul Rubens, made eight decades later. In both, a shaggy-haired Adam, seated on the left, extends an arm in a futile attempt to prevent an intoxicated-looking Eve from plucking a shiny apple from the Tree of Knowledge, in which a serpentlike creature lurks. The sizes of the images, the placement of the figures, and even the color palettes are close enough to make the works…

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