Should We Care What Artists Wear?

You'd be forgiven for assuming that the new book What Artists Wear (written by Charlie Porter, and published by Penguin) would be a kind of manual: "This is how artists dress. You should do the same."There is, after all, an entire cottage industry dedicated to the imitation and reproduction of the personal style of artists. Images of Picasso's stripes, Hockney's colours, and Basquiat's suits plaster the moodboards of luxury houses and mass-market brands alike, while their iconography has been us...