The Image Makers: Inez And Vinoodh
In a new series, Style.com sits down with the best in the field of contemporary fashion photography to talk about both the process and the product. First up: the husband-and-wife Dutch shooters Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
At exactly 34 characters long, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin easily have the longest photo credit in [...]
The Many Shoes Of Lady Gaga
After a ribbon cutting with the Lady herself and the requisite party, Lady Gaga’s 5,500-square-foot winter wonderland at Barneys opens at 11:59 p.m. tonight. The space has been designed and curated by the pop star, along with collaborators Nicola Formichetti, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, and the retailer’s creative director, Dennis Freedman, and features a wide [...]
Is Optical-Illusion Fashion The Future?
Labels from to Norma Kamali to Forever 21 have been experimenting with 3-D techno magic to enhance their brands this year, like when Burberry put on a virtual spectacular of epic proportions in Beijing back in April). At the Spring shows, tastemakers like Balenciaga’s Nicolas Ghesquière and Marc Jacobs performed optical illusions of their own [...]
René Gruau’s Works Go Up For Auction, Miuccia Prada Adds A New Jewel (Or Two) To Her Crown, A Heelless Shoe Exhibition By Comme Des Garçons, And More…
A collection of works by haute couture illustrator René Gruau, who worked with major houses like Christian Dior, Balenciaga, and Balmain, is on the chopping block today at a Christie’s London auction. The pieces, commissioned by the influential fashion editor Fleur Cowles, are in the auction house’s Twentieth-Century Decorative Art & Design auction. [Telegraph]Miuccia Prada [...]
Andrew Heather Signs On With Revillon, Gucci Museum Opens In Florence This Week, Dorothy’s Ruby Red Slippers Could Sell For Millions, And More…
Andrew Heather, who has been assisting Riccardo Tisci on Givenchy’s couture collections, has signed on as the new creative director of Revillon. The French luxury furrier has had an in-house team designing the annual winter collections since Peter Dundas left in 2009. [WWD]This Wednesday, the Gucci Museo inside Florence’s Palazzo della Mercanzia will open in [...]
Call His Name: Alejandro
“It’s my first real presentation, outside of my showroom, so I wanted to keep it really simple and precise,” shoe designer and fourth-generation cobbler Alejandro Ingelmo said at his Milk Studios presentation. “For me, less is more.” Not necessarily what you’d expect to hear from someone whose client roster includes Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and [...]
Steven Klein X Lady Gaga X Polaroid
For Made in Polaroid, a new exhibit of—yes—Polaroids opening at Milk Studios today, fashion photographers like Patrick Demarchelier and Steven Klein, designers like Phillip Lim and Nicola Formichetti, and actors including James Franco all created images using the company’s GL 10 instant, mobile printer. There’s over 50 works of art in the Phillips de Pury [...]
Europe’s Priciest Shopping Block, Gaga’s Latest Dissertation, Valentino On Broadway, And More…
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées has been crowned as Europe’s most expensive retail location. Previously, London’s New Bond Street held the top spot, but New York’s Fifth Avenue remains number one on the global meter. [WWD]Lady Gaga has released her latest column for V. The subject? “Extreme critic fundamentalism.” [V]Valentino, the musical? Perhaps. The Italian designer [...]
Gaga, Oh La La
Lady Gaga has just surprised her Little Monsters with the first of her video collaborations with Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. After photographing Gaga for V’s Asian issue this summer, the powerhouse duo has joined forces with the pop star again. Here’s “You and I: Nymph,” featuring an uncharacteristically, minimally dressed Gaga. We almost [...]
The Gaga Family Fashion Venture, A Geriatric Style Starlet, And More…
Lady Gaga and her sister are discussing launching their own “relatively normal and wearable” line of clothing. They have the classic styles of Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and Katharine Hepburn in mind as inspirations, but we can be sure it will come with a twist of Gaga. [Grazia Daily]Fashion’s newest, oldest pop star: 90-year-old Iris [...]





