Celebrate Salvador Dalí’s Birthday With Some Sartorial Surrealism
Salvador Dalí died in 1989, yet his birthday on Saturday is reason enough to celebrate the artist, whose legacy is alive and well—as is his mustache, which his exhumation proved in 2017. It’s been nine decades since Dalí left behind his native Spain for Paris, where he set about painting the first of the works that we now associate above all with Surrealism—even though it was actually Dalí’s pal André Breton who first introduced the concept, several years before. No one, however, took Surrealism as seriously as Dalí, who, along with artists like René Magritte, solidified its status as one of the most important movements of the 20th century (as well as its reputation for eroticism and oddities). Dalí’s influence might have first been recognized in art, but it’s cropped up seemingly everywhere since—including even cookbooks. It’s also made its way into fashion photography, as W‘s archives readily evidence. Take a look, here.
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Photograph by Alex Prager for W magazine, May 2017.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, January 2018.
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Photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, December 2014.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, June 2006.
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Guinevere van Seenus photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, August 2004.
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Photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, July 2018.
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Tilda Swinton photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, December 2014.
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Jessica Chastain photograph by Max Vadukul for W magazine, January 2013.
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Photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, December 2016.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, September 2007.
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Photograph by Paolo Roversi for W magazine, October 2006.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, July 2014.
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Marion Cotillard photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, December 2012.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, September 2007.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, September 2013.
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Photograph by Paolo Roversi for W magazine, April 2017.
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Photograph by Alex Prager for W magazine, September 2015.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, March 2014.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, February 2015.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, May 2005.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, August 2016.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, March 2014.
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Photograph by Steven Klein for W magazine, March 2012.
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Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W magazine, April 2006.
