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Fashion designer duo (and they are artists at that), Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren of Viktor & Rolf pose for a rare editorial (and one of the best we’ve seen recently!) accurately titled “Twin Set“, by acclaimed photography team Anusckha Blommers & Neils Schumm, in the Fall/Winter 2009 edition of GQ Style Italy.
At the dawn of the current economic recovery, as luxury brands are further positioning (and sometimes repositioning) themselves towards deeper values of quality and tradition, James Purdey & Sons, the impeccably preserved brand behind some of the finest guns and rifles in the world, might be the best example of true luxury and authenticity.
Purdey’s vision has continuously been to build the most sought after hunting guns and equipments over the past two hundred years. Since it was founded in 1814 all the way to 2009, Purdey, one of the world’s oldest sporting brands, has become internationally renowned for quality, innovation and excellence and for its extremely well preserved tradition. Read the rest of this entry »
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison”. – Victor Hugo
School doors all over the world are being closed for tens of millions of children every day because of violence, oppression and poverty. Education is a fundamental part of the personal development in children, and its impact on the direction and decisions children make as they become adults is enormous.
I’ve never seen supermodel Mariacarla Boscono looking sooo seductively enthralling in a gloomy way like in the latest December 2009 issue of Vogue China. The editorial titled “That Lady in Dress“.
In the tradition of going beyond the obvious, and in typical Dazed & Confused fashion, photographer Mark Pillai and stylist Katie Shillingford go beyond the gray and dark tones characteristically associated with fall and winter and produced this mad color fest of tie-dye shades editorial featuring fabulous Fall/Winter 2009-2010 pieces.
There’s nothing like an explosion of vibrant colors against a great big white background; the great big white background being the New York snow park, Belleayre Mountain and a beautiful blue sky. This serves as the ultimate futuristic and winter-istic setting for photographer Benjamin Alexander Huseby exciting editorial for the latest VMAN magazine, issue 16.
One of the most prominent and influential American designers in existence, and the creator or what he calls “glunge” (grunge plus glamour), Rick Owens knows how to stay avant-garde and still sell tens of millions of dollars every year in over two hundred and fifty high-end fashion stores around the world.
We’re always excited when a favorite magazine of ours collaborates with a favorite photographer and a favorite stylist, combing those elements with a great model and couture creations equals fabulous editorial that makes us swoon in delirium.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt designed a beautiful high-end jewelry collection in collaboration with Asprey. The coveted capsule collection is titled “The Protector”, and is inspired its entirety by the snake, which Angelina Jolie believes it to be a talisman.
If anything can cure the ills of humanity and make the world a better place to live, it will transpire from the ideas and inspirations that are found in books. Literacy is the means by which our potential as humans is founded. Books are narratives that open the door to depths of our personal self that cannot be found any other way. They do so by expanding our minds to rich new possibilities teaching art to our soul.
Tragically, millions of children in the developing world are unable to access the power which is found through reading. The educational opportunities are unavailable in many areas and many grow up lacking the literacy needed to enjoy the benefits of reading.
In 2000 former Microsoft executive John Wood founded the organization Room to Read after a trip to Nepal where he came to understand the lack need for more resources and financial support among the education system. The people he encountered on this journey touched his life as he came to know the strength of their spirit and warmth of their hearts. He also realized the scope in which illiteracy was present and how the world could be empowered by teaching literacy. Since then Room to Read has built over 800 schools and 7,500 libraries and changed the lives of countless students around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
After the deserved success of their first issue, GQ China elaborates on the importance of knitwear in our current weather. Featuring an array of knitwear and accompaniments, photographed by Roger Rich, styled by Jo Levin and starring Andrew Smith.
Capturing the essence of a legendary supermodel is not an easy task, but Dusan Reljin somehow managed very well to capture the meticulous sultry essence of why Eva Herzigova remains to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, in “H, As In Herzigova”.
The resurgence of the Motown genre past Neosoul avenue has never been so rife. It seems that lesser-known artists like Joan Osborne and Nikka Costa were meddling with it to no avail. However, when Amy Winehouse came around with her sophomore epic Back To Black everything changes. Many artists surfaced in imitation, but never pinned the tail on the pinata quite right. Enter Paloma Faith – a fresh new talent with as much talent as style.
In the Fall 2009 issue of DV Man magazine, I was mesmerized by an entire excellently executed editorial, focusing entirely on the current men’s trend of dressing like the “Good Old Days” (which also happens to be the title of the editorial), the three-piece suits, capes and fabulous tweeds.
Photographer Carl Bengtsson shot Viggo Jonasson, Charlie Westerberg, Kristian Akergren, Theo Storesund, Mattias H and Per B, styled by Ursula Wangander, to channel the charm and beautiful nostalgia of the era in exquisitely texture photographs to reflect said “Good Old Days”. Read the rest of this entry »
The classically beautiful and alluringly curvaceous supermodel and one of my favorites, Lara Stone is at it again with an editorial ode to heroines (or not) of Film Noir of the 1904s and 50s. The editorial is titled “Style Noir”, photographed by the much-admired Paolo Roversi and styled by Edward Enninful for the November issue of also one of our favorites, Vogue Italia.
