LONDON.- This winter, Sotheby’s London galleries will embrace the flawless style and creative expertise of Tank Magazine’s Fashion Director and CEO Caroline Issa. In an exercise in fantasy collecting, Issa has hand-picked a selection her favourite artworks from Sotheby’s forthcoming ‘Contemporary Curated’ sale in London on November 21.

Not only is Issa a formidable businesswoman who has excelled in the fields of management consultancy, publishing, and the creative industries, she is a permanent fixture on the world’s ‘best-dressed’ lists and a lifelong advocate of the arts. At Tank Magazine, she has collaborated with artists including Laure Prouvost, Thomas Demand, Hito Steyerl and Torbjørn Rødland. Issa insists that the two disciplines are inextricably linked: ‘fashion exists in art and art in fashion’.

For Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated sale, Issa presents a selection of artworks which are historically significant or unique in their rarity, but which most importantly have the capacity to inspire.

Caroline Issa says: “Collaborating with Sotheby’s has been a pretty amazing exercise in fantasy collecting. It’s a mixture of education and rediscovery, finding things that catch one’s eye, seeking out unusual or rare finds, and looking up the artists or historical pieces that were new to me. Some of the works spoke to me because they used materials – say textiles – very well (like Nina Beier), some because the artists themselves inspire me”

“Art has been present in most of my life. I have been lucky enough to work with a platform like Tank Magazine that has had Art as one of its key subjects consistently throughout its almost 20 year history. Art, just as much as fashion, often inspires an entire issue of the magazine, a photoshoot we conceive, and can be a springboard for a brand campaign or a look. It can also confuse, madden and induce euphoria. But most of all, it makes me think, question and reach further”.