Andy Warhol 1998

The Andy Wharol Foundation chose Marseille's Musée de la Mode as the only French stopover worthy of hosting a worldwide retrospective in 1998.

1200 m2 were set aside to make the presentation of the identity and monumental works of this artist, "The King of Pop", unforgettable.

Reconstruction of his obsession with accumulation, his early sketches for the Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fashion press, for which he won numerous awards, and his window displays at Bronwit Teller, Tiffany's...

Polymorphous artist, iconoclast, star-studded, contested, creator of the studio La Factory in which he brings together a young generation ... International nugget of those he chooses to share a common history. He portrays and stages these celebrities in his Interview magazine.

A gallery of silkscreened portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Liz Taylor was followed by the Campbell's Soup Can and Brillo Ketchup Heinz series... The cinema opened up an intimate field of expression on metamorphosis and transformation with the transgender actress Holly Woodlawn, who inspired Lou Reed's song Walk on the Wild Side. He liked to say: "I started out in commercial art and I want to end up with an art business... being good at business is the most fascinating art form... making money is an art, working is an art, and business done right is the greatest art". He died at the age of 58 in 1987, and remains an inspiring and iconic artist for fashion designers.