To fête the release the Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette in 2006, Vogue enlisted Annie Leibovitz for an 18th-century-themed editorial starring Kirsten Dunst as the Dauphine. Photographed nowhere else but Versailles, Dunst is resplendent in designer interpretations of rococo fashions, descending the stairs of a gilded carriage and poised amongst members of her
The same year the model would sign an unheard of six-figure annual contract with Revlon, Lauren Hutton was photographed by Richard Avedon for the July 1973 issue of Vogue. Posing for the 1973 cover story “The American Woman Today Part 1,” Lauren Hutton would serve as both the all-American beauty ideal of
A pioneer for African American women, Josephine Baker is commonly associated with her seductive banana dance performance at the Folies Bergère, costumed in a skimpy skirt constructed with a string of artificial bananas. When racial prejudice proved to hinder to her career, Baker moved East; first, to New York and then Paris,
Fashion coverage throughout WWII placed high value on accessories amongst the wartime rations. When a new dress was not an option, the resourceful woman would change the ribbon on her hat to maintain a fresh look. With such focus placed on the trimmings of an ensemble, photographer John Rawlings would
After Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan paired with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari for W Magazine’s 2009 Art Issue, the couple decided to continue the collaboration, founding ToiletPaper Magazine the following year. Under the art direction of Micol Talso, the biannual ToiletPaper magazine is entirely image-based, comprised of surreal, technicolor imagery. In 2013, Kenzo’s creative directors, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim,
Following Man Ray’s lead, Philippe Halsman was a proponent of surreal photography with his elaborately orchestrated surreal scenes. Most remembered for his portraits of Albert Einstein and fellow surrealist Salvador Dalí, the Latvian-born Halsman would also photograph contemporary fashion. In 1947, Halsman would photograph the fall footwear fashions, depicting three pairs
Most remembered for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, photographer Phil Stern’s subject matter ranged from the warfront to Hollywood. The year of the Dean’s premature death, Stern photographed the actor peeking out of his sweater, perhaps suggesting Dean’s enigmatic persona. In The New York Times T Magazine Style Men’s Fall
Originally an homage to a Brigitte Bardot photo by Ghislain Dussart, Herb Ritts’s 1994 photograph of a scantly clad Elle Macpherson at age 30 was recreated just one year shy of the model’s 50th birthday for Harper’s Bazaar Australia August, 2013. A reaction to the media’s search for nude photograph’s of
A precursor to the selfie, Franco Rubartelli’s self portrait of himself then girlfriend Veruschka was an outtake from a series that ran in the January 15, 1968, Vogue. In the photo, the photographer/model couple sits in the grass, gazing at their reflections in the mirror as Rubartelli snaps a photo. For Vogue Latin
The year after London’s Daily Express would anoint her “The Face of ’66,” Twiggy would grace four covers of American Vogue and land one British Vogue cover in her native England. That same year, she shot an editorial for British Vogue in 1967 with photographer Ronald Traeger–whose premature death came just a year later–for the editorial “Shorts Supply.”