Written by Daniel P Dykes on 1 May 2012
Luxury fashion brands and houses continually represent more and more facets of fashion. Recently, Dior has expanded upon its jewellery offering with Dior’s Fine Jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane turning her hand to the My Dior collection.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 15 Feb 2012
Vogue Italia dedicated their February issue to it, Love have been dabbling in it, and Eniko had an encounter with it in Tar. Surrealism, it seems, is having a fashionable moment.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 4 Feb 2012
Surreal or Real – it’s not quite a statement, not quite a question but rather a punctuation-less piece of typography floating across the cover of Vogue Italia’s February 2012 issue. Whether or not it begs you to mentally add a question mark, it does set the mood of the issue. The main editorial, like the cover, stars Laura Kampman as photographed by Steven Meisel. It’s…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 16 Jan 2012
Hot rods, hot rod heels, headscarves; prints, pleats, pinned hair in waves. How many hot things of the season can you fit into one campaign? Prada manages all that and more in their ’50s themed campaign for spring 2012, photographed by Steven Meisel.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 7 Jan 2012
The latest Gucci for sale on your late night shopping channel? Complete with cheesy lens blurs and elevator music? Not something you’ll see every day. But thanks to Vogue Italia and another creative, tongue-in-cheek concept shot by Steven Meisel, we get to step into a world where the likes of Karlie Kloss, Natasha Poly and Caroline Trentini are the stars of the QVC shopping channel…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 1 Dec 2011
Fashion and nudity are hardly strangers to one another. If you take the well-known quote, fashion is all about eventually becoming naked, then you might even say that nudity is the ying to fashion’s yang. But the question is often less about if a model should take the nudity leap, and more about when – and above all how. For a model like Karlie Kloss…
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 30 Nov 2011
Karlie Kloss wrapped in a bow? It must be Christmas.
Written by Shitika Anand on 22 Oct 2011
Doesn’t matter what you think of them – tacky, attractive, ineffective or just unnecessary – fashion and beauty advertisements are special. Especially when big names get together on the same creative platform. Think Mario Testino and Kate Moss – that kind of special. These are the kind that’ll look flashy on beautifully scented pages of a glossy magazine, but when they are bookmarked and filed…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 18 Sep 2011
The power of the internet means it’s easier than ever to make comparisons between the work of different photographers. Of late that’s equated to debate about copyright and copying – from accusations of plagiarism in Love Magazine to Steven Meisel plagiarising himself (if such a thing is possible). But what happens when it’s not a full concept but an individual shot? This occurred recently when…
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 7 Sep 2011
We’ve certainly looked at allegations of photo shoots being a little more than inspired by other works before now, but this one is a little different. Photographer Steven Meisel is oddly being accused of copying himself. Which honestly makes no sense on the face of it, but becomes a little clearer when you look at the details behind his two photo shoots.
