How do you turn Basquiat into a make-up collection?
Basquiat’s work has been copied, referenced and reinterpreted for decades. Now, MAC’s Creative Director Nicola Formichetti talks about what it means to carry his legacy into beauty
Black News 
Jean-Michel Basquiat has become one of the most imitated – or ripped-off – artists of all time. Almost forty years after his death, social media is still awash with aspiring painters spinning around a canvas, only to reveal a derivative jumble of crowns, scrawled figures and fragmented phrases. This art is often criticised for mindlessly copying and pasting the visual language of an artist whose work was responding to a specific context – the New York art world of the 1980s – and hishellip;
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