Hogan SS11 presentation homage to Denis Hopper

Hogan’s Milan presentation on Monday was an homage

to the late actor and artist Dennis Hopper.

Hopper's photographs were exhibited alongside a collection of trainers and nylon jackets.

“Dennis helped me sign  Damien Hirst and Ed Ruscha for a bag collaboration. The bags never ended up in production, but we still have the prototypes somewhere,” said Hogan’s Emanuele Della Valle, who met Hopper in Rome 15 years ago through Marin Hopper, a former fashion director for Elle magazine and daughter of Brooke Hayward, Hopper’s first wife. “When I was at Elle, I persuaded my father to shoot some fashion stories. He photographed Alexander McQueen’s collection in Florence with Lee himself styling,” recalled Hopper, who was at Hogan with her siblings Ruthanna and Henry. “The day I was born, my dad told my mom to get out of bed because she had to see some soup cans from a guy called Andy,” she continued, referring to her father’s collection of Andy Warhol’s work. “He had a great eye.”

A Dennis Hopper retrospective, curated by Julian Schnabel, is to open July 11 at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art.

Source: WWD