Harper’s Bazaar Spain featured a glossy group of images of French model Aymeline Valade, photographed by Txema Yeste. She is wearing Gucci archive pieces, to celebrate 90 years of glam at the House.
Aymeline Valade for Harper’s Bazaar Spain.
Having a Bianca Jagger moment.
Prima donna.
Taking a stroll down the Jerry Hall-way.
Sidney Bristow, eat your heart out.
Like something from a Ferry video.
Demure - and damn sexy.
Mortisha mode.
Gucci worth going ga-ga over.
Images, via TFS.
As Spring approaches, so do the Sears Catalogue-sized March issues of the mags.
Picked up my first two the other day and loved this editorial by Karl Lagerfeld for Harper’s Bazaar US, featuring Iris Strubegger posing as a handful of notable designers.
Iris as Donatella. Extra collagen anyone?
Iris as John G. Even the pose is perfect.
Iris as Carolina. I need a million of these shirts.
Iris as Rei. It's very similar to the iconic shot of Rei.
Iris as Sonia. That hair is impeccable!
Iris as the photographer's subject - and as the photographer himself.
Iris as our fave Auntie Viv
Look for more mag coverage over the coming weeks. I am slowly starting to get back into the posting routine. Sorry about the lapse, my dears.
All images from the March 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, photographed by Uncle Karl.
This week, the world got a little less beautiful.
Irving Penn left us at the age of 92.
High impact, striking images - a Penn trademark.
While dubbed a fashion and celebrity photographer, Penn photographed everything from frozen vegetables to the people of tribal cultures.
What Penn brought to the likes of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar – and ultimately to us – was a clarity of vision. His compositions, regardless of subject, were always flawless.
Cult Creams, Vogue, 1996.
He was one of the first photographers to use a simple backdrop of white or grey, often shooting his subjects in awkard spaces and angles.
Lisa Fonssagrives - his wife, by Penn, 1951
Drama at every angle, as captured by Penn.
Monsieur St. Laurent, almost captured, by Penn, 1983
While he predominantly shot in black and white, his colour photographs render the same crisp, clear composition.
Magic Makeup by Penn
Star Wars couture, catalogued by Penn.
His Vogue cover in May, 1947 is clean, simple and has an air of mystery.
Vogue cover, May 1947.
The May, 2004 Vogue cover with Nicole Kidman is one of the magazine’s most memorable, capturing the same feeling 57 years later! The gold of the earlier cover is echoed in the recent version’s title colour, the dip of the backless dress recalls the oval mirror in the earlier. The hair is similar, albeit more dramatic in the recent version and could Kidman’s silhouette be the bottle on the dresser in the 1947 cover? Only the shadows know for sure.
Nicole Kidman on Vogue, May 2004 by Penn
Every single image speaks volumes.
Cocoa dress by Irving Penn
Woman with Umbrella, Irving Penn
The drama of this sleeve, perfectly documented by Penn.
Mascara Wars, by Penn.
Pablo Picasso by Penn, 1957
Veiled Face by Penn, 1949
We’ll be seeing you, Mr. Penn. Our hats tip to you and the beautiful image of the world you left us with.
Penn's Hat Trick, 2007
Irving Penn 1917-2009
All photos by Irving Penn.
Photo sources: 1. Bee, 2. Cream, 3. Lisa, 4. Dramatic Angles, 5. Yves, 6. Magic Makeup, 7. Star Wars, 8. 1947 Vogue, 9. 2004 Vogue, 10. Cocoa dress, 11. Umbrella, 12. Coat, 13. Mascara, 14. Picasso, 15. Veil, 16. Hat, 17 Mr. Penn.
Fashion has hit the street. Sesame Street, to be precise.
Harper’s Bazaar took a stroll down the Street we didn’t know was haute, until now. It was in celebration of the show’s 40th anniversary.
Say the word ‘Supermodel’ and a flurry of first names floods your mind. Then words like ‘Glamazon’, ‘mannequin’ and ‘freaks of nature’ soon follow. After all, these icons of the late ’80s and early ’90s were no ordinary girls.
They likely required pounds of makeup and the most expensive clothes to look the way they did, right? Well, here is where the Supes really differed. Unlike the blank canvas models of today who need layers of accoutrements to acquire a personality, these ladies brought it.
So getting back to that freaks of nature thing…
Harper’s Bazaar reveals the natural side of Kristen, Cindy, Claudia, Amber, Shalom, Tatjana and Nadja in an editorial called Supermodels Supernatural, photographed by the brilliant Peter Lindbergh.
This reminds me of Bazaar during the Liz Tilberis years.
This is a magazine moment, darlings. Let’s savour it.
[Click on the thumbnails to see the larger images.]
Photos by Peter Lindbergh, in the September 2009 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Go out and buy it – it’s a great issue for your fashion archives.
Remember Kristen McMenamy? She was the ubiquitous, chameleon supermodel in the decade spanning the mid ’80s to the mid ’90s.
Cutting her long locks and opting for a severe, cropped cut put her on the map. Her angular features and stark white skin played well to the camera, especially in black and white.
Vogue Italia, Dec 1985 by Peter Lindbergh
Kristen and Naomi do grunge, Vogue Dec 92 by Steven Meisel
Martine Sitbon ad by Nick Knight, 1991/2
She did heroin chic, she did retro, she could do girlie…but there was always a very specific personality present (unlike so many of the girls today).
Vogue UK Dec 93 by Mario Testino
Vogue 1995 by Steven Meisel
Vogue Italia Aug 93 Cover
Well, she’s back – like you’ve never seen her before – as seen through the eyes and lens of Steven Meisel for the July 09 issue of Vogue Italia. Some of her best work was in front of Meisel’s camera, so it’s only fitting that he documented her comeback.
Vogue Italia July 2009 Cover by Steven Meisel
Vogue Italia July 09 by Steven Meisel
Kristen in Wonderland for Vogue Italia July 09 by Steven MeiselView the Flash photo story on the Vogue.it site to get the full experience. It’s breathtaking.
One can almost hear her brash laugh in the background, no? “I’m baaaaack! Miss me?” We did!
The supes are everywhere. Naomi will be fronting a Fall fur campaign for Dennis Basso (but she’s never left us, has she?). And Christy Turlington is turning it out for Fall YSL.
Vogue Italia July 2009 images from Style.it.
Past editorial images from the Kristen McMenamy fan site.
So, it’s the morning after. Well, more precisely, it is a week plus the morning after. But that’s how long it takes to recover from/process what happened on Fashion Night. First, a cheat sheet.
Fashion NightTM is something the girls and I have been doing for the last 5+ years. We get together each season (Spring and Fall) at one of our abodes to discuss all things mode.
Sounds casual, right? That’s where you would be wrong, gentle reader. This is not your average girls night.
There are the official rules – food and drink are involved and require no fussing i.e. where one of us is in the kitchen while the other two discuss the season’s colours or must-haves. That would not do. Food must be fabulous, but not interfere with the main focus of the night. This is where the men come in handy. While they are not allowed to participate (one of them has tried, poor soul) or have direct access to the “war room” table (will explain in a minute) – they basically make sure the take-out gets on plates in front of us and make us lovely coffee/tea when the wine/Prosecco runs out.
They are the men behind the women. Note to self: future husband must be able to take care of girls on fashion night – has tough competition.
There are other official rules, which I can’t seem to recall. It’ the unofficial ones that make Fashion Night so special, however. The one that says you must come prepared – with notes, tabs all over the Spring or Fall books, an agenda of discussion points (sometimes leaked ahead of time via CrackBerries). Cut to the “war room”– large table covered from end to end.
Vogue is a given, both American and British – with me adding Vogue India into the mix the past few seasons and delivering my dissertaion on it better than any University thesis, I might add. Elle and Elle Canada (latter is me, again), W, Harper’s Bazaar are usually in the mix, too…with the occasional Flare, InStyle, etc., making an appearance. Scattered post-its, ripped out pages (learned from the wrist injury in the second season – can only carry so many mags to and fro), laptops (just added), couture samples (more on that in this season’s recap).
So, like I was saying, preparation is key – otherwise known as fashion homework. You can’t just show up empty handed – canvas bags full of your discussion materials must be in tow (fancy shopping bags don’t hold the weight). Laugh now, but someone was gently asked not to return to fashion night. She was new – not to fashion, but to the event – and frankly, she couldn’t keep up.
Fashion Night is not for the faint of heart.
We have been known to do entire seasonal buys for retailers, dress celebrities before the Oscars, redesign magazines, predict designer defections. What I’ve liked best is how we’ve seen each of our styles not only evolve, but influence the style of the fashionista sitting next to us. Like the fact that I now like (some!) Frou Frou, that B likes a harder edge and E wants colour! We have opened up each other’s closets – both figuratively and literally.
Are we solving World Peace? No. It is a night of pure, uncensored fashion talk, no outsiders, no pretense, no judgement (okay, I judged when the girls each wanted a jumper last season!).
But they don’t have one, do they? That’s the power of Fashion Night.
Details of SS09 Fashion Night.
