Little Black Book of Art

New York fashion week kicked off with a preview of the forthcoming ‘Richard Hambleton – New York’ exhibition Presented by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Giorgio Armani, proving that art and fashion make a perfect partnership.

Celebrities such as Bruce Willis, Derek Blasberg, Devon Aoki, and Jefferson Hack, Julia Roitfeld, DJ Nellee Hooper all turned up to support major artist Richard Hambleton who, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, had great success coming out of the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980′s.

As the last surviving member of the East Village Art Movement, he saw what fame and drug use did to his close friends so the last 20 years Hambleton has led a relatively reclusive life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Despite a low public profile, Hambleton has continued to create and his works can be found in the permanent collections of the MoMA, Brooklyn Museum and Houston Museum of Fine Art.

The show opens to the public on 15 September at 560 Washington Street, (door 37E), New York.