What about fashion at arts?

If you think that painting is the way artists observe and then show their physical and emotional environment, then for sure you can expect to see plenty of features from the people and their living exposed over the canvas of a painter, and that's exactly what the exhibit at Musée D'Orsay put on focus through the impressionism's artists work.
The impressionism movement has been always associated to the way we observe nature. But on their paintings we can also see the way they represented the French culture and the urban landscape from early 20th century. We can even see how they put lot of emphasis on the way people dress, with 'elegance and display' as the review mention. Is not a surprise that things like this happen, thus the artist shows than he is more than an observer but somehow part of this society too.
Through the paintings from artists like Manet, Monet and Degas, including dresses from the collection of Parisian museums, the exhibit shows how they take interest in fashion, as they painted people in motion, outside, on streets and squares. Very much interesting and distant work work from the Académies paintings, who otherwise used to paint inside their workshops simulating scenes.
For this exhibit (last until 20 january 2013) three museums have joined, Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. As you can see this is a huge exhibit.

A painting showing the social life in France by that time, painted by impressionism's artist Pierre Renoir.

Link to original article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/16/impressionisme-et-la-mode-paris-review#

I personally pick this article because i have an interest in fashion too, and by reading this article it seems logic the relation between the impressionism and fashion by the apparition of first fashion magazines in the same decades, and impressionism is really a great moment in paiting. I have my favourite influential person in fashion too. It's David Bowie, check it out.