Perhaps it’s the way they call to mind nature’s most delicate and beautiful flowers, but there’s no denying the innate femininity of ruffles. Each spring in particular do they surface as an adornment to blouses and dresses, breaking the clean lines of silhouettes into bursts of floralesque volume. In Benjamin Kanarek’s latest shoot for Harper’s BAZAAR, ruffles are celebrated in all their glory. Bringing femininity…

Interpreting how you wear trends is a very personal thing – spring 2013′s fashion trends being no exception – and yet we can all use some help and inspiration, particularly of the visual kind. This shoot by Benjamin Kanarek was created for specifically that purpose. Styled by Isabel Moralejo, it’s a crisp, clean dissection of some of spring’s key pieces and how they can be…

El triunfo de las curvas… With these words positioned across a lingerie-clad Daisy Lowe, you don’t need to be fluent in Spanish to understand what Yo Dona magazine are celebrating. And what better way to give Lowe’s famous curves their due than by way of vintage-style lingerie? Photographed by Benjamin Kanarek the model-slash-it-girl wears some of the season’s most divine lingerie pieces – from lacy…

You know an English party girl when you see one. She knows how to work with contrasts, how to make girlish ruffles look tough, and sensual sheers look sweet, and most of all she knows how to have fun. With a model for a mother and a Rolling Stone for a Father, Alexandra Richards was born with the ability to rock bed hair and a…

Showcasing couture gowns against a featureless white backdrop would be unfair. These are gowns that deserve a surrounding as lavish as their hand-stitched details and delicate fabrics – a backdrop like the Palace Hotel Shangri-La in Paris, perhaps. That’s where Benjamin Kanarek shot his latest haute couture editorial for the November 2012 issue of Harper’s BAZAAR en Español. Maud Welzen is prim and polished in…

“Bérénice has an incredibly witty sense of humor,” says photographer Benjamin Kanarek after spending a day getting to know cinema’s latest Bond Girl. After shooting Bérénice for Harper’s Bazaar, Kanarek and video director Frédérique Renaut decided a candid interview was also in order. In the video Bérénice shares details of how she was cast for SKYFALL, her childhood memories, and what she feels about Bond…

The title of ‘Bond Girl’ isn’t just a one-film thing; it’s like a lifetime badge of honor. A certification that a woman has a certain something. And the latest to earn that badge? French actress Bérénice Marlohe, who stars as the seductive Sévérine in the new film SKYFALL. In the cover shoot for Harper’s BAZAAR en Español, November 2012, Benjamin Kanarek captures both the natural…

Couture gowns never look quite as at home as they do against the backdrops of Paris. They have an affinity: the appliqué flowers blooming across skirts in deliberate rows, like the formal gardens of the Tuileries; the ornate gold lace like palace interiors; and the full, billowing silhouettes like grand architectural domes. But as much as Benjamin Kanarek’s (benjaminkanarekblog.com) latest shoot brings couture fashion to…

Against a stormy backdrop and battling fierce winds, Du Juan stands in outfits of all white – making it all the more obvious just how suitable and stylish white can be for winter. Photographed by Benjamin Kanarek for the September 2012 issue of Vogue China, the shoot showcases the season’s range of textures and shapes that make the colour white desirable. Stylist Julie Ragolia mixes…

It starts with heiress Lydia Hearst, hands grasping tiny hips, in Louis Vuitton’s ladylike ensemble of pastel lace and peachy statement collar. From there Benjamin Kanarek‘s shoot moves through a series of cinematic frames, each styled with a ladylike softness that’s nepenthe to any memory of the model having ever posed with skin-baring abandon in front of Terry Richardson’s lens. This is, unequivocally, Lydia the…