School’s in—with Nick Knight, Ryan McGinley, Tim Walker, and Fabien Baron, no less. Beginning in the fall of 2011, the School of Visual Arts in New York is launching a new graduate program in fashion photography, the first of its kind on the scale being proposed. SVA’s Stephen Frailey and Art + Commerce founder Jimmy [...]

Media fantasies about fashion usually revolve around pouting bodacious bombshells strutting down runways or preening for gushing photographers. But actual fashion aficionados know that such images are rarely at fashion’s true core, where genuine innovation often takes the form of “Weird Beauty.” That’s the title of the new International Center of Photography exhibition opening today [...]

The year ahead for the fashion industry may look somewhat bleak, but that’s all the more reason to be excited about the International Center of Photography’s “Year of Fashion,” a 12-month-long look at style shooters. The year begins on January 16 with three simultaneous exhibitions: a collection of vintage prints from Vogue and Vanity Fair’s [...]