The Art of Fashion is a telling title for Neiman Marcus’ fall 2012 campaign. As is often the case with multi-label department stores, it features only one outfit from each of a range of designers. But it chooses the most striking outfits – or makes them seem such with its beautiful photography and rich backdrops, turning fashion into art. A platinum blonde Kasia Struss along…

The colour white is translated into several trails of life: purity, truthfulness, and serenity. In fashion, white is associated with summer and its freshness. In photography, when the colour is contrasted with its black counterpart, the realistic element jumps out doubly. The powerful intermix of the two is seen in this Vogue Germany editorial featuring Austrian model Iris Strubegger. It’s exploring the vision of conservative…

How striking a presence Iris Strubegger has over this campaign; it’s hard to imagine it working as well without those commanding eyes and slightly masculine features. The contrast between Iris’ boyish pixie crop and Alphorria’s strong yet feminine pieces is just right.

I’m not sure whether it’s the shoot’s title (Smoke gets in your eyes), the dark curtained backdrop, or the short black bob; but viewing this shoot from Numero starts sultry showtunes playing at the back of your mind. Iris Strubegger is the pictorial’s smouldering, smoking, sometimes topless femme fatale.

Vogue Russia‘s shoot Russia, which is not lost pays homage to the drama and progressiveness of 20th century Russian Ballet. Iris Strubegger and Heidi Mount star as Paolo Roversi‘s leading ladies.

The current issue of V Magazine is all about expressing to us that all sizes and shapes are attractive, and making us feel better about ourselves. Though what they give with one hand they take away with the next, namely Iris Strubegger‘s editorial in the same issue. The amazingly lithe Iris spends much of her time posed nude in the editorial, which purports to expound…