First in Flight

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Speaking of Cass Bird: recently behind the lens for Maiyet's S/S 2012 campaign, featuring Daria Werbowy and shot at Floyd Bennett Field. Love the light.

Maiyet SS12 | Daria Werbowy by Cass Bird from M A I Y E T on Vimeo. Music by Feist.

Maiyet.com

Image of the Day

. A shot from the new Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2012 campaign – Lara Stone by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Cool concept and composition, amazing light, great clothes and styling.

Castle Walls

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Behind the scenes of Deborah Turbeville's excellent Spring/Summer 2012 campaign for Valentino.

Judith Thurman wrote a great piece on her in the New Yorker a few months back. Here's an excerpt:

While Deborah Turbeville does not consider herself a fashion photographer—she approaches the genre, she says, “with tongue in cheek”— she has taken some of the most memorable fashion pictures of the past thirty-five years. They have been influenced by filmmakers like Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais and Andrej Tarkovsky who, she says, share her “obsession with style and atmosphere.” They also pay Proustian homage—ironic and nostalgic at the same time—to lost or fading aristocratic worlds. Turbeville and her longtime printer, Jean-Yves Noblet, scanned the negatives and Polaroids that they found “lying in a drawer” into a computer, she explains, with all of their scratches and “scars,” to produce the digital prints in her new book, “The Fashion Pictures,” and in her show at Staley-Wise, in SoHo.

Subscribers can read the full article at newyorker.com and anyone can view a slideshow of select Deborah Turbeville photographs here.

Image from the SS2012 Valentino campaign. See the rest here.

Innie & Vinnie

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I've been digging the Giuseppe Zanotti campaigns for the past few seasons – Anja Rubik shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. (Spring/Summer 2012 above, Fall/Winter 2011 below.)

Image of the Day

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A preview from the Akris SS 2012 campaign – the model is Daga Ziober but I'm not sure who shot it... maybe Steven Klein? Minimal and beautiful and I love the white space around the image.

Image of the Day

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I love the shadow and light in this Deborah Turville photograph, of models Zuzanna Bijoch, Maud Welzen, Bette Franke, and Fei Fei Sun, for an upcoming Valentino campaign.

Need vs. Want

Vintage Daisy BB gun for shooting cans on Whidbey Island – highly relaxing activity. Need.

Image of the Day

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In honor of the day that most closely resembles corduroy,
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Chloé Fall 1999 – Fernanda Tavares shot by Taryn Simon.

Oh hell – while we're at it, the West Coast classic:

Very Wool

.Images from a late 1960s wool campaign – art direction by Claude Bonin and illustrations by Roman Cieslewicz.

Fly

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Prada Spring/Summer 2011

Image of the Day

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Cool-looking advertisement for Spoonbill Books, in the forthcoming 30th anniversary issue of BOMB Magazine. Spoonbill Books' website doesn't really match the ad but you can visit them in person at 218 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn NY.

What's Real

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The smart lightness of this new Chloé campaign gives it a real-life feel – aspirational, but real. Once again, David Sims comes through.

Chloé has had some great campaigns over the years but this one ranks toward the top. More images here.

On the Edge of the World

. I love the simplicity of this Filippa K Fall/Winter campaign, shot by (you can almost guess from the color) Camilla Åkrans.

There is so much information overload all the time, it's nice to see ads that are quiet and minimal, but still with a mood and feeling. I know I'm somewhat repeating myself, I guess it's just something I'm thinking about a lot lately.


Here's a little video to go with it:



More at filippa-k.com

Anglo Files

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Shots from British designer Margarett Howell's Fall/Winter 2010 lookbook, styled and photographed by Venetia Scott. (Click to enlarge.)

Very simple but creates a mood and a story.
I really like it a lot.

Stairsteps

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YSL Manifesto VII, directed by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin. Info etc. at yslmanifesto.com

Total Producing Ability

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Via the always-excellent Viva Vena Cava:


A commercial by Kazumi Kurigami, for the Japanese department store chain Parco. As the ladies at Vena Cava put it, "Nothing says shopping quite like celebrities eating eggs in an all-black room."



Here are some excerpts from Parco's extremely informative FAQ page:

Q: What kind of businesses is PARCO engaged in?
A: We are a company that develops and manages urban shopping complexes. We employ “Total Producing Ability” which incorporates our wide-ranging expertise in the fields of marketing, planning, designing and management/operation of shopping complexes.
Q: Please tell me the origins of the PARCO corporate name.
A: “PARCO,” the corporate name, means “park” in Italian. A park is a place (or space) where lots of people can gather, where people can share time and space, and where people can relax and have fun. That’s also what "PARCO" is.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Oh Alberta

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The new Alberta Ferretti campaign...

...a smart and timely concept, and beautifully timeless photos by who else but Paolo Roversi.

Image of the Day

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A preview of the YSL FW2010 campaign – Daria Werbowy by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. I think the image might just be a snapshot of a proof (?) but I like how the shadows and folds make it seem vintage. (The photos and clothes are timeless.)

[via Fashionologie]

Dark Details

. Cushnie et Ochs Fall/Winter 2010 campaign photos by Chadwick Tyler. I love how dark this is while at the same time capturing the great textures in the clothing. This is not an easy thing to do well with a camera and light.

See also:
cushnieetochs.com
Cushnie et Ochs FW2010 runway shots at Fashionologie
Chadwick Tyler's website

Image of the Day

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I like the intensity of the red in this image from the new Givenchy campaign, especially in contrast with the background – an unexpected combo and a nice counterpoint to ubiquitous (and much-loved) camel and navy.

Kind of reminds me of Vincent Gallo's red boots in Buffalo 66. Photos by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.