Accompanying Keira Knightley’s “modern day Guinevere” cover for Harper’s Bazaar UK is a shoot by stylist Cathy Kasterine and photographer Ellen Von Unwerth that channels the season’s Gothic sentiments flawlessly. In one shot Knightley descends a stone staircase in a cloak and winged headpiece, looking very much the medieval queen.

UK Harper’s Bazaar know there’s no better poster girl for the delicately bewitching neo-Goth look than English rose Keira Knightley. She already has the flawless pale skin and dark eyes, so all that’s needed is to coat her shoulders in a blanket of Chanel feathers and match her lips to a dark red rose. Photographer Ellen Von Unwerth and stylist Cathy Kasterine wanted to “transform…

Remember that annoyingly catchy song by Danish pop group Aqua? Hear it once and it’d be stuck in your head for days. “I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world…” To young ears it might have sounded innocent and sugary-sweet, but when Aqua’s Barbie sung about playing and being undressed there was some cheeky adult double meaning behind it. Ellen von Unwerth‘s latest video for…

What do John William Waterhouse and Ellen Von Unwerth have in common? Not much, and the two probably don’t find themselves side by side in a sentence too often. Von Unwerth’s works are often brazenly erotic; Waterhouse’s only subtly so. But looking at Von Unwerth’s latest shoot for Vogue Italia, starring a nymphesque Eniko Mihalik, thoughts are drawn to parallels of Pre-Raphaelite beauties.

If you like showgirls and glitter and blinding amounts of sparkle, you’re gonna love this: Ellen Von Unwerth‘s cover of Naomi Campbell which celebrates Showbiz!. If you don’t like all of those things then, well, perhaps Schön’s 18th cover isn’t for you.

Mariacarla Boscono looks perfectly at home as the 50s Italianate bombshell brunette in the spring 2012 campaign for Alberta Ferretti’s capsule collection for Macy’s. To fit with the colourful holiday mood of the pieces, Ellen Von Unwerth ploughed unabashedly into the book of headscarves-and-vespa-riding cliches: but does it matter? Some things are timeless, and wanting to look glamorous while living la dolce vita is one…

There’s often a lot of frou-frou and frills to be expected from any Ellen von Unwerth shoot, though always in a playful and downright sensual way. It’s none the less refreshing to see an Unwerth shoot that capitalises on her ability to make over-the-top costumery work in a powerful way, but one that channels it into something stronger and sharper. This shoot for Shon Magazine…

If you’re familiar with Wheels & Dollbaby, and with the photography of Ellen Von Unwerth, then you wouldn’t even need to see the results of a collaboration between the two to know the match would be heaven-made. In fact it’s an all-round alignment of stars: the collection, of which the “Jolie Bow” silk picnic dress and its matching headscarf are a definite highlight; the beauty…

Evan Rachel Wood was born for Ellen Von Unwerth’s lens. She’s always flaunted a dark side, sexual side, self-confessed bisexual side, the kinds of qualities that Unwerth loves to bring out in any subject. In this shoot for Flaunt Magazine, a short-haired Wood is styled by Brett Bailey to sometimes look flapper-esque, sometimes masculinely sexy – with no shyness to display a little bare skin.

Saturated colors of summer vibes, unforgettable memories captured on film, the joyfulness of bright days – this is how we could describe the relaxed candidness of the Dior Cruise 2012 lookbook. There is no theatrical drama, no affected performance, no constrained act of sophistication, just youthful naturalness and feelings of freedom. Rising stars in modeling Monika Jac Jagaciak and Antonio Navas channel succulent summer atmosphere…