Nail Down
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,
The Final Curtain
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
Sweater Weather
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
The Fine Print
A patron of the arts in addition to an artist himself, Paul Poiret worked alongside some of the era’s foremost textile and graphic designers. Poiret’s most significant and enduring creative relationship was with textile designer Raoul Dufy, an artist whose career owes much to Poiret. Dufy’s art deco textile prints
Apple of My Eye
Belgian artist René Magritte toyed with perspective and reality, creating surreal works through real, ordinary settings and mundane objects. The apple had a lingering presence within Magritte’s oeuvre, as did the suit-clad man topped with a bowler hat. In his 1964 work The Son of Man, the painter depicted a commonplace scenario of a suited man,