Written by Tania Braukämper on 21 Apr 2012
Vogue Paris unsurprisingly loves an excuse to celebrate a French beauty, so for their May 2012 issue Laetitia Casta gets a spread showcasing her success as a model but dedicated to her skill as an actress. Casta, the shoots intro notes, has just starred in four films; one being Les adorés, which Mario Testino’s Vogue Paris shoot specifically plays to. Les adorés is a film…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 2 Mar 2012
When you pit two Victoria’s Secret supermodels against each other in the ring, it’s not just a fight of mere mortals; it’s like an epic battle between two gladiators, two Amazonian Queens. Nicola Formichetti styles Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes with fetishist toughness for their girl fight in V Magazine’s sports issue. In many ways this is what Mario Testino does best: high impact, high…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 3 Feb 2012
With clashing prints and textures against a minimalist’s nightmare of a house, this shoot is as busy as a New York street in peak hour. But when the 1950s and 60′s are your fashion inspiration – and when Karlie Kloss is your model – that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Kloss wears every ladylike outfit with sweet conviction, from the lace dresses to the vintage-inspired…
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 14 Dec 2011
Now that a small selection of their spring / summer 2012 collection has begun to appear in their stores, Burberry have released the first pictures from the tie-in campaign aimed at promoting both their men’s and women’s collections.
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 23 Nov 2011
Rumours of a Tom Ford x H&M collection result in something of a retrospective advert.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 15 Nov 2011
Between the time I last waxed lyrical about clear plastic outerwear and now, nothing has really changed. Those visions of dystopian Blade Runner futures still tug at the edges of my mind with some positive Pavlovian response; yet for a quintessentially British brand like Burberry a clear cape has an entirely different association. It’s not about an ’80s interpretation of the future, it’s about a…
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 Shitika Anand on 12 Oct 2011
A ‘first time’ for anything can be daunting. Be it a first bicycle ride, first kiss or a first stage performance. Model Saskia De Brauw lived through this very overwhelming notion as she made her debut before Mario Testino’s lens. Also being this Dutch beauty’s first fashion spread to be featured in British Vogue. Such breakthroughs often go unnoticed amongst the juggling riddle of fast-paced…
Written by Shitika Anand on 11 Oct 2011
Is after-hours party planning the ultimate decider in reinstating your status in society? What parties you attend, who you share tasteless platters of canapés with or whose bedroom you end up in? If so, then Karlie Kloss deserves a medal for what looks like the start of a very crazy night out on the town. Terry Richardson has adroitly captured the surprise-filled chase between the…
