Among some of the most famous sculptures in Rome is the 18th-century
statue of Saint Cecilia, which shows the young martyr at the time of her
death, with three ax wounds visible on her neck. “It’s everything I
love—incredibly beautiful and almost painful to look at,” says Rachel
Feinstein, 41, whose latest work, on view in November at the Gagosian
outpost in the Italian city, was inspired by the religious effigy.
Having grown up in Miami in the eighties—with, as she puts it, its
“weird combo of sailing lessons and drug cartels”—Feinstein believes
that backdrop informed her fascination with both beauty and decay. At
her wedding in 1997 to the painter John Currin, she recalls, she stood
at the altar sobbing—not from sheer joy, “but because the moment was
inching away from me.” These days, says the artist, pictured here with
part of the set she created for Marc Jacobs’s fall 2012 show, “I feel
like life is speeding by.” And despite her perennially elegant
appearance on the art-party scene, Feinstein admits that her style is
decidedly “rushed.” The last time she bought new clothes was three years
ago, following the birth of her third child, Flora. “Thank God I’m
friends with Marc [Jacobs]. He literally takes pity on me and sends
stuff over.”
Feinstein wears Marc Jacobs cashmere and faux-fur jacket, silk blouse,
wool jacquard skirt, hat, stole, and shoes. Tabio socks.
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Rachel Feinstein
Religion, Romance, and Rococo
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