From Magritte to Catwalk: How Belgian Surrealism Linked The Truman Show and Louis Vuitton Haute Couture (4 photos + video)

The iconic ending of the cult drama The Truman Show (1998), where Jim Carrey's character climbs a ladder into a false sky, turned out to be a masterful cinematic plagiarism. Director Peter Weir recreated the famous 1956 painting "Moonlight" by Belgian surrealist René Magritte frame-by-frame. Two decades later, this visual metaphor for escaping an artificial reality has reached a new level and taken the global fashion industry by storm. At the Louis Vuitton men's fall/winter show, legendary designer Virgil Abloh transformed the runway into a grand hybrid homage. The designer completely covered the pavilion in a cloud print and constructed the very same set with the ladder, forcing the models to literally walk inside a living frame from the film. With this elegant gesture, haute couture brought the history of art full circle, proving that the brilliant ideas of the past never go out of style.