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The art collectors Erika and Rolf Hoffmann – who amassed many of the works exhibited here – got to know Andy Warhol in Los Angeles in 1980. They arranged for him to perform as a model in a fashion show for their label. And together they also agreed that he would create a double portrait of the couple. To begin with, the artist completed highly staged Polaroid photographs which he then transferred as silkscreens to multicolored, square canvases. These images, drawing on star-portraits, also gained glamour in quite a physical sense through an application of diamond dust. In a final step, Warhol brought together a total of nine canvases in an alternating pattern. As with other portraits by the artist, the aim here was not to show the sitters in the most lifelike manner and most characteristic way, but rather to openly transform them into an image, a pose, an "icon."