Images: © Steven Meisel
Vogue Italua
Stardust
with
Viktoriya Sasonkina
styled by Andrew Richardson
September 2008
Categories: fashion, photography
Tagged: Andrew Richardson, fashion, film star, Glamour, Hollywood, model, photography, Star, stardust, Steven Meisel, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Vogue, Vogue Italua
Steven Meisel is fashion’s pre-eminent image-maker – prolific and innovative – visualising the trends of every fashion season since the 1980’s. Along with his ability to cast the faces and characters that come to represent the look of fashion, Meisel has a prodigious talent for scripting story lines that reference and reflect culture. For over [...]
Categories: book, fashion, photography
Tagged: book, cover, fashion, Italian Vogue, photography, Steven Meisel, Vogue, Vogue Italia
The British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead after apparently committing suicide at his home. The 40-year-old was discovered at his property in Green Street, in London’s West End, shortly after 10am today. Paramedics were called but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said his death is not being treated as [...]
Categories: fashion
Tagged: Alexander McQueen, Alexandra Shulman, dead, design, designer, fashion, Isabella Blow, loss, news, The Independent, tragedy, Vogue
Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was one of the great photographers of our time. Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits is a glorious celebration of his work in this genre. The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver [...]
Categories: exhibition, photography
Tagged: Al Pacino, Alfred Hitchcock, Christian Dior, Duke Ellington, Édith Piaf, exhibition, Grace Kelly, Harold Pinter, Irving Penn, National Portrait Gallery, Pablo Picasso, photography, portrait, Rudolf Nureyev, Salvador Dali, T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote, Vogue
How often does society praise and laud strong men yet reject and vilify and run scared and confused from bold, intelligent and beautiful women? How frequently do we demand the stereotype of excelling in a single field or ouvre alone, Jacks and Jills of all trades unnerving and unsettling us? All of which makes the [...]
Categories: exclusive, interview
Tagged: addiction, Beautiful, body, Carolyn Cowan, change, charismatic, creative, darkness, direct, English, fashion design, funny, hope, India, interesting, interview, intriguing, light, magnificent, nomad, nude, pain, people, photographer, photography, portrait, powerful, scar, scary, spirituality, strong, transformation, Vogue, woman, yoga
Photographer: © Steven Meisel
Editorial: State of Emergency
Models: Hilary Rhoda and Iselin Steiro
Magazine: Vogue Italia, September 2006
Categories: fashion, photography
Tagged: fashion, Hilary Rhoda, Iselin Steiro, State of Emergency, Steven Meisel, Vogue, Vogue Italia
“From the shores of the Mediterranean, I prefer to remember the warmth and the dance.” [Mai Ghoussoub]
When was it that Arabs and Muslims living in the West began to feel like “unidentified subjects”, as artist Khaled Ramadan puts it, “easily associated with conflicts, violence and fanaticism”?
One might argue that Arabs have been portrayed in a [...]
Categories: word
Tagged: Middle East, Olivia Snaije, Vogue, Vogue Hommes International
Images: Little Girl & Boy Lost photographed by Annie Leibovitz for American Vogue, December issue 2009 with Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield as well as Lady Gaga. The editorial is inspired by Richard Jones’ production of the 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera, opening this month at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Watch behind the scenes VIDEO [...]
Categories: fashion, magazine, photography
Tagged: American Vogue, Andrew Garfield, Annie Leibovitz, Engelbert Humperdinck, Fashion editorial, Hansel and Gretel, Lady Gaga, Lily Cole, Little Girl & Boy Lost, Metropolitan Opera, Richard Jones, Vogue
If you happen to be wandering through London’s Mayfair dodging chihuahuas and preppy young interns juggling coffee, you may want to take a look at the latest installation at the Sprüth Magers gallery on Grafton Street. Running between the 12th October and 14th November, Sprüth Magers are proudly boasting their latest from one of conceptual [...]
Categories: exclusive, exhibition, review
Tagged: Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder?, Bethan Troakes, Grafton Street, installation, John Baldessari, living installation, model, Sprüth Magers, street, Tableau Vivant, Tate Modern, Vogue, white, window
What is your earliest fashion memory?
JG. Some things you remember, other things like colours, textures, smells stay in your subconsciousness, and you don’t realise it until years later. I can’t pinpoint my first fashion moment, it was just something always in me. I remember my sisters, mother and grandmother, their dresses, learning to flamenco dance [...]
Categories: fashion
Tagged: catwalk, DIOR, fashion design, fashion show, John Galliano, Mario Testino, Natalia Vodianova, Stella Tennant, Vogue
