ART & DESIGN

Photos: Speed Freaks

Artists and fashion designers are completely obsessed with cars. W goes on a cultural joyride.

by Fan Zhong

A shot by Craig McDean from the book *I Love Fast Cars*, 1999.

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The wreck on the runway at Givenchy’s spring 2014 show.

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Opening Ceremony’s fashion-cum-auto show. Photo by Getty Images.

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Richard Phillips’s Playboy Marfa, 2013. Photo by Adrian Gaut.

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A shot by Craig McDean from the book I Love Fast Cars, 1999.

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Damien Hirst’s polka-dot Mini Cooper. Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan.

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Chris Burden’s Porsche With Meteorite, 2013.

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Virginia Overton’s Untitled, 2012, at Manhattan’s High Line. Courtesy of Friends of the Highline.