Wednesday, June 30, 2010

NAAG editorial - Eliza Cummings, ph: Hugh Lippe, stylist: Hilary Wendt

Hugh Lippe photographed Eliza Cummings for NAAG on May 13, 2010 in NY with stylist Hilary Wendt.

NAAG Editorial
Model: Eliza Cummings
Photographer: Hugh Lippe
Stylist: Hilary Wendt
Makeup: Ralph Siciliano
Hair: Rolando Beauchamp

























Monday, June 28, 2010

Sportmax Fall 2010 Campaign Preview: Ginta Lapina, Photo: David Sims, Stylist: Joe McKenna

David Sims photographed Ginta Lapina for the fall 2010 Sportmax campaign on March 19, 2010 at Spring Studios, Studios I & J in London with stylist Joe McKenna.

Sportmax Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Ginta Lapina
Photographer: David Sims
Stylist: Joe McKenna
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Lisa Butler
Casting Director: Jenny Friedberg at Creative Chaos

Lanvin Fall 2010 Campaign Preview: Mariacarla Boscono, Photo: Steven Meisel, Stylist: Alber Elbaz

Steven Meisel photographed Mariacarla Boscono for the fall 2010 Lanvin campaign on April 2, 2010, styled by designer Alber Elbaz.

Lanvin Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Alber Elbaz
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath







Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything

From WWD, by Jessica Iredale:

If you have opened a fashion magazine, or any magazine for that matter, over the last decade or so, you’ve seen the work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, known in the industry simply as Inez and Vinoodh. The Dutch photographers (partners in work and life) are the creative eyes behind such contemporary imagery as the Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Yohji Yamamoto and Chloé ad campaigns, and editorial work that regularly appears in French Vogue, V, The New York Times and W. Starting Friday, a retrospective of 300 of their photographs from 1985 to 2010, titled “Pretty Much Everything,” will be on view at Amsterdam’s Foam Museum through Sept. 15. Next year, Taschen will expand on the exhibition with an epic tome of 666 photographs accompanied by original fiction by A.M. Homes. Here, van Lamsweerde speaks on behalf of the duo about its work — past, present and future.

On being labeled fashion photographers: We love what clothes do to build a character in your picture. There’s something that I find fascinating about the language of clothes. It’s kind of like a set of codes that everyone universally understands. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, I’m not into fashion. I don’t care about what I wear.’ But when they go for a job interview, they wear something different than [what they would wear] just to go work in the garden or pick up the kids from school. You are saying something with what you wear.

On her favorite models: Raquel Zimmermann, Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss and Anja Rubik. They all have this huge range. They’re mature, they’re grown up, they’re women who have had a life and experience. For about five or six years now we haven’t shot anyone under 18 for that reason, but also for the fact that we feel that the modeling business should not promote girls working under 18. They’re not out of school, their bodies aren’t developed yet, they don’t have a sense of self yet, sometimes they haven’t had sex yet. It’s hard to project all these things on someone who hasn’t had that experience.

On shooting celebrities: I actually love it. It’s like a conquest each time. It’s kind of like — I don’t want to say seduction, but it has that part to it. I never really try to talk someone into doing something they don’t want to….We usually have an idea ahead of time what we would like to do, what our fantasy would be on a celebrity, what part we would like to bring out or change. Usually I get quite a good sense in the first five minutes as to how much they want to play with you and how open they are.…The sitting is no longer than 15 to 20 minutes. A lot of people say that they feel hypnotized after they shoot with us because it’s a very, very, very focused, short period of time. Usually within the first five frames I have the picture.

On her dream subject: I would love to shoot Prince. I’m a fan. I think he’s inspiring and I love the way he moves his body and I think he’s a genius. And since there’s no more Michael Jackson, I would say he’d be the one.

Balenciaga Spring 2002 Campaign
Photo: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Model: Isabeli Fontana

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Bruberry fall 2010 campaign preview: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Photo: Mario Testino

Mario Testino photographed Rosie Huntington for the Burberry Fall 2010 Campaign on March 34-24, 2010 in London.

Burberry Beauty Fall 2010 Campaign Preview
Model: Rosie Huntington
Photographer: Mario Testino





D&G fall 2010 campaign preview: Regina Feoktistova, Photo: Mario Testino, Stylist: Anastasia Barbieri

Mario Testino photographed Regina Feoktistova for the fall 2010 D&G campaign in St. Moritz, Switzerland on March 25, 2010 with stylist Anastasia Barbieri.

D&G Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Regina Feoktistova
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Anastasia Barbieri
Hair: Marc Lopez
Makeup: Linda Cantello









Louis Vuitton fall 2010 campaign preview: Karen Elson, Photo: Steven Meisel, Stylist: Karl Templer

Steven Meisel photographed Karen Elson for the fall 2010 Louis Vuitton campaign on April 15, 2010 with stylist Karl Templer.

Louis Vuitton Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Karen Elson
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Karl Templer
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath

From WWD:
THREE’S COMPANY: Typically, Marc Jacobs gives his collections for Louis Vuitton a different spin in advertising versus the runway. For the forthcoming fall campaign, slated to break in a wide range of August titles, Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova are shown preening in front of old-fashioned makeup mirrors backstage, as if they were ready to take a stroll around the fountain of the Louvre’s Cour Carré, the setting for Vuitton’s show during Paris Fashion Week in March. Ditto for the multigenerational casting — one model in her 20s, one her 30s, one her 40s — adding up to one of the most sophisticated Vuitton fashion campaigns to date, according to Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s director of communications.

“The atmosphere was very Fifties, very elegant,” he related. This is the fourth Vuitton campaign shot by Steven Meisel, who constructed the period set in a New York studio.









Wednesday, June 23, 2010