New York, NY — September 2, 2025
Debbie Dickinson Gallery proudly announces the Premiere Exhibition Opening of Esthétique, presented during Fashion and Art Week at the Arthouse Hotel, New York City. This landmark exhibition celebrates fashion, jewelry, accessories, and beauty in art—featuring haute portraits and abstracts that embody the elegance and vitality of couture translated onto canvas.
Fashion has always been more than fabric — it is movement, rhythm, and cultural narrative. Esthétique unites artists whose work is profoundly influenced by fashion’s power to shape perception, inspire identity, and crystallize moments of history. Through painting, photography, and mixed media, the exhibition captures the individuality and bold creativity that define both fashion and art.
Noah Becker
With Two Figures in Hats, Becker merges portraiture with fashion’s coded language, highlighting how style frames identity in contemporary culture. No matter the color choice, Noah’s piece acts as an echo chamber to create a fashion movement. Like an algorithm, all it takes is one like to spread the word amongst others for a fashion trend to become popular.
Bill Buchman
With works such as Good Morning, Open Secret, and Aquarica, Buchman paints with the expressive vitality of fabric itself, his canvases flowing like textiles in motion, alive with gesture and form. A start to the day symbolizes the door we walk into once we’ve woken up and left our bedroom. We see a clear picture of what the room will look like before we dive in and make our own footprint, only to end the day with the established image a little more adjust than when we entered it.
Christophe von Hohenberg
Renowned photographer whose celebrated lens captured fashion’s golden age and continues to reflect its enduring allure. This has to be the era of the PAM-AM stewardess who greets us with coffee, tea, and me for your delightful mile-high experience. Also an era where high-end fashion was not exclusive to being high-end, it truly was the norm of the 1950’s and 1960’s for a man and woman to go out dressed civilized, but it respect the privilege of flying on a commercial airline.
Hélène Guétary
With The Flower Dancer, multidisciplinary artist Guétary, who styled, painted, choreographed, and photographed, transforms empathy into art, weaving fashion, performance, and narrative into layered works. This is a beautiful real-life illustration of multi-cultured fashion infused with vibrant color for one to live the celebration as its beautiful self. As if the sequin and color combination weren’t vibrant enough, the added floral headpieces with perfect magenta face paint give 3D effect to this beautiful experience.
Mary Reid
In paintings such as Three Graces, Cake Crumbs on Gien, and Zephyrus, Reid’s brushwork reveals the sculptural qualities of drapery and textile, echoing classical figuration with contemporary elegance. Here, Zephyrus establishes an aesthetic of a confident woman who upholds the personal expectations sought out for herself. The drapery has a duel action effect, one establishing solid structure, as well as unbridled sexiness backed by youth.
S.L. Fuller
In Les Demoiselles, Fuller portrays privileged women in deco style. Known for evocative explorations of form and design, her work extends fashion’s aesthetic language into the realm of abstraction and narrative. Also known as Daphne, this is the most pure utter joy a woman could feel as decadence frees you of any troubles unfolding daily. A privileged woman has a very much different mindset than a regular working woman, she’s envisioning herself in where she wants to be instead of living day to day.
Peggy Bates
Known for richly textured abstractions, Bates creates works of depth and resonance, layering color and form with tactile sophistication. Peggy’s subtle aesthetic stresses an important role in what’s now a minimalist society, maximizing the true meaning of one only aspect you’re truly focused. It’s about making what you the most purposeful task that you could do to achieve maximum success and true gratitude.
Special Miniatures by Anthony Haden-Guest & Marc Bouwer
Together, these artists illuminate the dialogue between art and fashion as both personal statement and cultural mirror. Their works showcase how beauty, jewelry, and adornment — like garments and accessories — carry meaning beyond appearance, inviting viewers to reflect on how aesthetics shape identity across time and place. For Anthony Haden-Guest, it’s not so much about the clothes that are in style for his “YSL”, it’s about just lasting in fashion to avoid being obsolete. And for Marc Bouwer, it’s merely a matter of your presence in the universe taking notice, and leaving a lasting mark.
Curator’s Statement
“Fashion is the eternal muse of art—an endless source of movement, identity, and transformation. Esthétique honors the artists who capture that timeless dialogue between style and expression.”
— Debbie Dickinson, Supermodel Curator & Director, Debbie Dickinson Gallery
A Must-See Cultural Event
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) calls Esthétique “the must-see cultural event of 2025.”
After curating over 150 art exhibitions and serving as muse on the runway for Yves Saint Laurent, Issey Miyake, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, and Giorgio Armani, in addition to appearing on numerous Vogue covers, commercials, and editorials, Supermodel Curator Debbie Dickinson now presents this premiere exhibition at the Arthouse Hotel from her namesake Debbie Dickinson Gallery.
This red-carpet Opening at the Arthouse Hotelwill welcome leading figures in art, fashion, culture, and society to one of 2025’s most anticipated cultural evenings.
Exhibition & RSVP Details
Esthétique — Debbie Dickinson Gallery at the Arthouse Hotel
📍 2178 Broadway at West 77th Street, New York City
📅 Premiere Red Carpet Opening: September 10, 2025 | 5–8 PM
🖼 Exhibition on view: September 10 – October 8, 2025
🎟 RSVP Essential: edentpr@gmail.com