Whilst wondering through the Fort Greene flea market the other weekend, I happened across this issue of Interview Magazine from the 70′s. As old as the publication may be, the images appear just as important now.
Arc brings you a very productive activity for your afternoon; you can even create your own Warhol.
Jean Cocteau’s 1959 Film, ‘Testament of Orpheus’ is celebrated for many reasons, but did anybody stop to acknowledge quite how great the end title is? The sequence opens to a shot of an expectant knife, in slow motion a balloon falls onto the blade, popping open, and releasing its smoke bomb, slowly fading into Cocteau’s hand-written ‘fin’.
The images from Paolo Roversi’s 1998 book ‘Nudi’ speak such volumes that they require no pre-amble.
As both the fashion and tech industries get their knickers in a twist over the suspension of tween darling Tavi Gevinson’s blog by Google, we bring you some other Yohji Yamamoto images, this time, from Fall Winter 1997. Creative direction is from M/M Paris, and photography by Craig McDean.
Will 2010 be the year that New York designer Alexander Wang secures his standing within fashion’s elite? Even by today’s standards, his rise has been quite astronomical; from winning the CFDA’s Fashion Fund in 2008 to being nominated for best womenswear designer in 2010 alongside Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan, his career has been given quite the push. The March 2010 issue of Interview magazine prominently featured the designer with a shoot by Mikael Jansson and interview by Diane Von Furstenburg. His Spring/Summer 2010 campaign features images shot by Fabien Baron, and styled by Karl Templer, and a glance over any of this month’s magazines will show a healthy amount of credits for the ‘young’ designer. And if this were not enough, his headquarters are befitting of a truly successful designer. SAD blog brings you these images from his Spring Summer 2010 lookbooks, and recent editorials.
The final post in this series is the Autumn Winter 1997 campaign. Creative direction is from Marc Ascoli, photography by David Sims, styling by Joe McKenna, and design by M/M Paris.
Lisa Lyon was a pioneer of female body building, with a daring character that lent her to appearances in Playboy, but more importantly, to pose for photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who devoted an entire book to the athlete. SAD blog brings you these lesser known, but incredibly striking images from a photographer whose body of work consistently examined the form in an unconventional, sexually charged fashion.
