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Tarot Cards Get the Designer Treatment Thanks to Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin, Vivienne Westwood, and More

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts)
Posted Nov 8th 2010 at 6:45PM  
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Designer tarot cards by Christian Louboutin (left) and Vivienne Westwood (right).

Fashion, art, and magic collide in "Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project," a new exhibit arriving at New York City's private National Arts Club in Gramercy Park.

Curated by Stacy Engman, 78 fine artists (Will Cotton, Ryan McGinness, Terence Koh), photographers (Terry Richardson, Patrick McMullan), and fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Vivienne Westwood, and Christian Louboutin were commissioned to design a 7" x 10" tarot card of Engman's choosing reinterpreted with their own iconography, all adding up to a full and artful deck.

While the exhibit is open to non-club members by appointment only, StyleList got a sneak peek at the cards, including one of our favorites: Louboutin's Nine of Cups, which represents self-indulgence and power and features an illustration of a woman smoking, drinking, and playing with stilettos.

Westwood's The Chariot card, on the other hand, represents change and carving new paths and features a photograph of Pamela Anderson looking sexy driving a golf cart. Her own chariot of sorts, we suppose.

Richardson and Jacobs also employed photography for their cards.

Jacobs's choice for Knight of Pentacles is a picture most likely repurposed from an old campaign that shows model Kristen McMenamy wearing one of Jacobs's designs and flashing her bare crotch. (Um, yeah. We're not sure how we'd handle pulling that one).

Controversial lensman Richardson's card, Two of Wands, was quite tame in comparison, featuring himself holding two guns in a Wild West scenario to illustrate the concept of imagining one's own destiny.

Which card would you want to draw? Let us know in a comment.

In related news, see what tarot reader Saundra Sorenson has to say about Lady Gaga and Kate Gosselin sharing a birthday.
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Tags: cards, Christian Louboutin, collaborations, karl lagerfeld, marc jacobs, National Arts Club, stacy engman, Tarot Cards, terry richardson, vivienne westwood
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Stefan, 11-09-2010, 11:45AM

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Sounds & looks interesting, I wonder if there will be a published edition made out of these

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Dave, 11-11-2010, 4:41AM

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Stacy Engman should be ashamed for not telling the whole truth about tarot cards and how they were really made for nothing more than card games and not originally for fortune telling. I've seen articles on her so called tarot project in some other articles and she appears not to want people to know the real truth about tarot cards. Like too many people promoting tarot divination, she misleads people into believing that the tarot has always been used for card reading and this is false. Not only was the tarot really made for games, tarot games are still played mostly in European countries like France and some Americans are now starting to become aware of them because of the internet. Tarot is not just fortune telling cards. It is time for the mainstream media in America to stop the occult stereotypes and recognize the existence of tarot game playing and that tarot reading is not the only use nor is it the original use of tarot cards.

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