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Robert Fairer
Robert Fairer (born 1966) is a British fashion photographer who is known for his backstage photography in the 1990s until the 2010s. Working for American ''Vogue'', ''Elle'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', his behind-the-scenes shots of supermodels, fashion designers, makeup artists, hair stylists and accessories designers would come to define the magazines front of the book. His first solo exhibition 'Robert Fairer Backstage Pass: Dior, Galliano, Jacobs, and McQueen' was held at SCAD Fash Museum of Fashion and his work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Design Museum, LACMA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the National Gallery of Victoria. Early life and career Fairer was born in 1966 in London. He grew up on King's Road, and was never without a camera. Being part of London's emerging art and fashion scene in the 1980s and 1990s, he began photographing friends and was encouraged to pursue a career in photography. Fascinated by wildlife photography, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion Photography
Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio or an outside setting. It originates from the clothing and fashion industries, and while some of fashion photography has been elevated as art, it is still primarily used for clothing, perfumes and beauty products. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as ''Vogue'', '' Vanity Fair'', or ''Elle''. It has grown into becoming a necessary way for designers to get their work out to the public. Fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories. The history of this photographic discipline was intertwined for its first decades with the fashion magazines in which the photographs originated, supplantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London College Of Communication
The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts. It has approximately 5000 students, and offers about sixty courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is organised in three schools: media, design and screen; all are housed in a single building in Elephant and Castle. It received its present name in 2003; it was previously the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, then the London College of Printing, and briefly the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades. History The school was formed in 1990 by the merger of the College for Distributive Trades with the London College of Printing. The London College of Printing descended from the St Bride's Foundation Institute Printing School, which was established in November 1894 under the City of London Parochial Charities Act of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is an English model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. She began her career at the age of 15, and established herself amongst the most recognisable and in-demand models of the past four decades. Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared :supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. In addition to her modelling career, Campbell has embarked on other ventures, including an Contemporary R&B, R&B studio album and several acting appearances in film and television, such as the modelling-competition reality show ''The Face (TV series), The Face'' and its international offshoots. Campbell is also involved in charity work for various causes. Early life Naomi Elaine Campbell was born in Lambeth, South London to Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris on 22 May 1970. In accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant and went u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (, , born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on ''Forbes'' top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the World by ''Forbes''. ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modelling in 1999. Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret#Victoria's Secret Angels, Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. In 2007, Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel. Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers. Bündchen was nominated for Choice Movie Female Breakout Star and for Choice Movie Villain at the 2005 Teen C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Beauty
''Savage Beauty'' is an ongoing comic book series currently published by Moonstone Books. The series is a re-imaging of the jungle girl genre set in modern-day Africa. Featuring Lacy and Liv Rae, Savage Beauty focuses on these stepsisters contending with issues including human trafficking, child soldiers, gun runners, pirates, and corrupt politicians under the guise of the goddess Anaya. In each issue of the comic, Savage Beauty offers a free full-page ad to a charitable cause. Future partners will include Invisible Children and Do Good Day. Publication history Savage Beauty first saw publication as a 2010 New York Comic Con exclusive comic book ashcan."Press Release- Getting Wild With Savage Beauty" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Leon Talley
André Leon Talley (October 16, 1948 – January 18, 2022) was an American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor-at-large of ''Vogue'' magazine. He was the magazine's fashion news director from 1983 to 1987, its first African-American male creative director from 1988 to 1995, and then its editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013. Often regarded as a fashion icon, he was known for supporting emerging designers and advocating for diversity in the fashion industry; while the capes, kaftans, and robes he wore became his trademark look. Talley also served on the judging panel for ''America's Next Top Model'' (from Cycle 14 to Cycle 17). He also authored three books, including the memoir ''The Chiffon Trenches'', which landed on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list; and co-authored a book with Richard Bernstein. Talley was the editor-at-large of '' Numéro Russia'' in 2013, before resigning due to anti-LGBT laws in Russia. He additionally worked stints with Andy W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour (; born 3 November 1949) is a British journalist based in New York City who has served as editor-in-Chief of ''Vogue'' since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020; she is also the artistic director of Condé Nast and the Global Editorial Director of ''Vogue''. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour has become an important figure in much of the fashion world, praised for her eye for emerging fashion trends. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour". Her father, Charles Wintour, Editor of the London ''Evening Standard'' (1959–1976), consulted with her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her career in fashion journalism began at two British magazines. Later, she moved to the US, with stints at '' New York'' and '' House & Garden''. She returned to London and was the editor of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InStyle
''InStyle'' was an American monthly women's fashion magazine founded in 1994. It was published in the United States by Dotdash Meredith. In February 2022, it was announced that InStyle would cease print publications and move to a digital-only format. Description Along with advertising, the magazine offered content such as beauty, fashion, home, entertaining, philanthropy, celebrity lifestyles, feminism and human interest. Editors-in-Chief have included Martha Nelson (1993-2002), Charla Lawhon (2002-2008), Ariel Foxman (2008-2016) and Laura Brown (2017-2022). After originating in the United States, ''InStyle'' had expanded their brand and, as of 2012, had distributed internationally to over 16 countries including Germany, Brazil, Greece, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, Romania, and Russia. In May 2017, ''InStyle China'' was launched as part of a partnership with an existing weekly magazine, which featured Victoria Beckham on its inaugural cover. In 2018, the UK editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Jones (i-D)
Terry Jones (born 1945) is a British graphic designer, art director, photographer, book- and magazine-editor. He is best known as co-founder of the British, street-style magazine '' i-D'' in 1980. Early life and career Terry Jones was born on 2 September 1945 in Northampton, England. He was a student of commercial art at West of England College of Art in Bristol. During college Jones was already working on two magazines: ''Circuit'' and ''Hip Hip Bullshit Dip''. After his first two-year diploma, he was persuaded by the head of graphics Richard Hollis to continue studies, but soon after he left without a grade in solidarity to Hollis who had resigned due to a lack of support from the school. Hollis suggested Jones should apply to the Royal College of Art, but being reluctant during the interview he wasn't accepted. Jones then worked as an assistant to the graphic designer Ivan Dodd, until becoming assistant art director at ''Good Housekeeping'', from 1968 until 1970, and art d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Blow
Isabella "Issie" Blow (nee Delves Broughton; 19 November 1958 – 7 May 2007) was an English magazine editor. As the muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as propelling and continually advocating the career of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she bought the entirety of his explosive premier show inspired by Jack the Ripper. She died by suicide in 2007. Early life Born Isabella Delves Broughton in Marylebone, London, she was the eldest child of Major Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, a military officer, and his second wife, Helen Mary Shore, a barrister. Sir Evelyn was the only son of Jock Delves Broughton; his sister, Rosamond, married Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat in 1938. Blow had two sisters, Julia and Lavinia; her brother, John, drowned in the family's swimming pool at the age of two. This had a profound effect on her. In 1972, when she was 14, her parents separated and her mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasselblad
Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company originally became known for its classic analog medium-format cameras that used a waist-level viewfinder. Perhaps the most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo program missions when the first humans landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras. In 2016, Hasselblad introduced the world's first digital compact mirrorless medium-format camera, the X1D-50c, changing the portability of medium-format photography. Hasselblad produces about 10,000 cameras a year from a small three-storey building. Company history The company was established in 1841 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Fritz Wiktor Hasselblad, as a trading company, F. W. Hasselblad and Co. The founder's son, Arvid Viktor Hasselblad, was interested in photography and started the phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week (NYFW), held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series of events in Manhattan typically spanning 7–9 days when international fashion collections are shown to buyers, the press, and the general public. It is one of four major fashion weeks in the world, collectively known as the "Big 4", along with those in Paris, London, and Milan. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) created the modern notion of a centralized "New York Fashion Week" in 1993, although cities like London were already using their city's name in conjunction with the words ''fashion week'' in the 1980s. NYFW is based on a much older series of events called "Press Week", founded in 1943. On a global scale, most business and sales-oriented shows and some couture shows take place in New York City. A centralized calendar of citywide events (including those affiliated with WME/IMG) is kept by the CFDA, and was acquired from calendar founder Ruth Finley. The an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
