Imitations
Photography
70 x 100 cm.
2003
The innovative fashion label Comme des Garçons invited Diana Larrea to participate in an international event to pay homage its mythic fragrance 2. The initiative consisted in selecting 40 artists from 10 different countries, each of whom was to create a work inspired by this perfume’s characteristic silver container. The work that Larrea presented was intended as an ironic commentary on the differences that always exist, and that we are accustomed to seeing nowadays, between the original and the fakes. In the artist’s work, the designs of other brands embody attempts to imitate 2’s reflecting tone so as to resemble this icon, feigning the glamour they do not possess.
