Fashion licensing projects
We've worked with a range of fashion brands and designers to showcase visual artists’ work - from high street names to haute couture runway presentations. Our licensing team are experienced in giving fashion brands clear agreements that outline how the work can be used across collections, campaigns, and collaborations.
Simone Rocha and Louise Bourgeois
A long-time fan of Bourgeois, Rocha’s collection was set against a backdrop of wall hangings and gift boxes adorned by the French-American artist’s work.
Highlighting the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion, we worked with designer Simone Rocha to enable the use of works by Louise Bourgeois in her 2018 Christmas window displays.
DACS set up a licensing agreement between fashion designer Simone Rocha and artist Louise Bourgeois.
Dior, Charleston and Duncan Grant
DACS licensed eleven works by Duncan Grant for Dior and worked together with Charleston to achieve Dior’s creative vision by using the artwork in imaginative ways, spanning across a range of clothing, jewellery and accessories.
The works featured in the collection were inspired by works that Grant had created while living in Charleston with Vanessa Bell. Charleston is the modernist home and studio of both painters, and a place that, over the decades, has brought people together to engage with art and ideas.
LOEWE and Bernard Leach
For LOEWE’s capsule collection, launched in November 2022, DACS worked with the luxury fashion brand to license artworks by influential British potter Bernard Leach.
This collaboration came to life due to LOEWE’s Creative Director, Jonathan Anderson’s passion for the work of Leach who played a pioneering role in creating an identity for artist potters across the world.
Other ways we've helped artwork be used and licensed in the fashion sector
These include:
- handbag and bag designs
- fashion shows
- events
- interview backdrops
- marketing and promotional material
- shop fit outs
- advertising campaigns
- photoshoots and set dressing
- artist collaborations