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David Sims, fashion photographer
Fashion photographer David Sims is born in Yorkshire, England in 1966. He leaves secondary school when he is 17 and soon starts assisting photographers Robert Erdmann and Norman Watson. At 19 he steps...
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Juergen Teller, collaborations (part 1)
Photographer Juergen Teller was born 1964 in Germany, where he studied photography for two years. To avoid military national service he learned English and moved to London in 1986 (age 22). Here he...
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Juergen Teller, collaborations (part 2)
(ph. Johnnie Shand Kydd) Juergen Teller and Vivienne Westwood have known each other about 16, 18 years. The last six years, Juergen Teller has been...
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Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?, William Klein&Dorothy McGowan
. Recently my friend Eddy (De Clercq) told me of this movie, Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo? after we watched the documentary...
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Topolino, Artist with Make-up
. Topolino is very petite, smokes like a chimney, and has the thickest french accent. His name is Italian for Mickey...
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Hedi Slimane, Fashion Wizard (part 2, Photography)
When Hedi Slimane stepped down as artistic director at Dior Homme in 2007, Fashion Wire Daily summed up his tenure this way: “Slimane leaves Dior with the well-earned reputation as the single most...
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Tim Walker creates his own world
Tim Walker, born in 1970 in England, ‘invented’ a whole new style of (fashion) photography. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style and his work is instantly...
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Body Modification in Fashion; Crinolines, Yohji Yamamoto & Comme Des Garçons
It sounds a bit scary, body manipulation in fashion, but this post is about changing the natural shapes of the body though a garment or undergarment, not changing the body itself. It’s about...
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Body Modification inspires… (Part 2)
Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy. It is often done for aesthetics, sexual enhancement, rites of passage, religious beliefs, to display group...
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Six Magazine is Moving…
Twice a year I took the train to Paris, just so I could get my hands on the next issue of Six Magazine by Comme Des Garçons, the most inspiring magazine at the time. . In 1988, Comme des Garçons...
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Amazing Pattern Books
A couple of years ago, my sister Mary showed me a great online shop specialized in books on crafts like sawing, knitting, beading, embroidery etc. She had bought a Japanese book with patterns for...
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Limi Yamamoto a.k.a. LIMI feu
(photograph by Robert Maxwell) Feu means fire, and there’s a lot of fight in Limi. Born in 1974 by the famous fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, it was not surprisingly that Limi Yamamoto chose a...
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Chanel: A Woman of her Own by Axel Madsen
(Coco Chanel by Richard Avedon) . I must have read it 4 or 5 times now, Chanel: A Woman of her Own by Axel Madsen and like to recommend it as a very...
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Brian Jones, the Embodiment of Unconventional
. My friend Eddy de Clercq is and has always been a very stylish man. During his teens he regularly went on a ferry-boat to London to buy the newest and hippest clothes. His shopping trips started at...
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Dutch Traditional Costume
I have been fascinated by traditional costume for as long as I can remember. Not only the Dutch traditional costume, but from countries all over the globe. Whenever I travel, I always try to find...
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Grunge; Marc Jacobs got fired over it & Hedi Slimane praised….
Kurt Cobain . March 04, 2013 Paris, Saint Laurent a/w 2013 by Hedi Slimane By Tim Blanks (edited version) California grunge was the inspiration for Hedi Slimane’s second women’s collection for...
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Audrey Hepburn & Hubert de Givenchy
Audrey Hepburn wearing Givenchy, photographed by Bert Stern for Vogue, 1963 . Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn - a match made in heaven. Similar ages, the French couturier and Iconic screen star...
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Jackie Kennedy, the Presidential Wardrobe
Jacqueline Bouvier, photographed by Horst P. Horst on the announcement of her marriage to John F. Kennedy, 1953 . Introduction The 1960′s were considered to be a time for change, and that is exactly...
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Patrick Petitjean, how Beards got back in Fashion
A friend asked me recently if I had noticed all these boys and men wearing beards lately. I laughed, because this trend isn’t just lately, it’s been going on for a few years already. But not many...
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Inspiration by National Geographic and Martina Hoogland Ivanow & Desiree Heiss
Mongolia, 1921. Ph. published in National Geographic/Fashion . In this post I’d like to share photographs I find very inspiring, like the story by Martina Hoogland Ivanow (photography) and Desiree...
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