Andy Warhol’s textiles are finally back in fashion

Andy Warhol’s career began, not with soup cans and Marilyns, but as a commercial artist. After training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York in 1949, where he began producing fashion and advertising illustrations and designs for products such as book covers, gift-wrap and greetings cards. It was on the foundations of this successful career that Warhol built his Pop empire. Less known and less explored, however, at least until now, are his commercial designs for textiles. ‘Andy Warhol: The Textiles’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London is the first exhibition dedicated to this aspect of Warhol’s pre-Pop career. Read more at Apollo.