Is it only vanity or can fashion have something to do with art?

I have the answer to this! This is the photo we did with Mario Testino for V Magazine, and then I did one for Pop Magazine… But then the thing I wanted to show you was from Visionaire Magazine. Riccardo Tisci, the designer for Givenchy, was guest-editing it and he asked me for an artistic collaboration. I said, “Okay Riccardo, do you admit that fashion is the popularization of art, that fashion always takes ideas from art?” And he said yes. So I said, “Okay, then we’ll do a collaboration: I’m the art, you’re the fashion, suck my tit.” So that’s what we did.

So I call this piece “The Contract” and that’s exactly what it is: a contract between fashion and art. You just have to understand what that means, so when I go into fashion I really go in consciously. Anyway, he was very nervous doing that piece.

Marina Abramovic, interview for the-talks.com