An art star since the eighties, Sherman set an auction record for photography last May when her Untitled from 1981 sold for $3.89 million. (It has since been topped.) Those kinds of prices have no doubt helped support her penchant for Prada, Marni, Narciso Rodriguez, and Marc Jacobs—as a glimpse of the walk-in closet and racks of shoes in her bedroom suite attested. Still, she has sat front row at only a handful of shows, she told me—one of them Balenciaga after she was commissioned to do a series of portraits of Balenciaga-clad fashion characters (the editrix, the party hopper, the critic), which is now part of François Pinault’s permanent collection. Two considerations give her pause: “There’s the clothes to sort out. I have to think about what I’ll wear,” she said. What’s worse, however, is the possibility that she’ll be photographed by somebody else. “And that’s never comfortable,” she admitted. “Those women who are able to suddenly strike a pose? I would love to be able to do that.”
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Cindy Sherman: Closet Queen
Artist Cindy Sherman is forever dressing the part. On the eve of two major shows, she gives Diane Solway the lowdown on her costume dramas.
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