Art, high-fashion commerce blur together in ‘Herb Ritts: L.A. Style’.
Herb Ritts was an anomaly in the competitive world of high-fashion photography. Though one of the brightest stars in the 1980s and 1990s, he was based in Los Angeles rather than New York or Paris, where most of his (small) peer group operated. It was one [...]
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Commercial work
March 8th, 2013 
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March 7th, 2013 admin Ritts did plenty of more conventional portraits, but the most successful artistically are those with eccentricities. Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier’s face, for example, is in shadow with the emphasis on the spiral pattern of his short blond hair. Artist David Hockney stands before a wall of portraits holding one of his mother in front of his [...]
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March 5th, 2013 admin The show does have a few of his famous magazine covers in color for Vogue and Vanity Fair, including the hilarious one he took of Crawford shaving K.D. Lang for its August 1993 cover. And there are examples of his video work on a monitor. As with his still photography, Ritts was mostly self-taught as [...]
Young designer initiatives
February 23rd, 2013 admin IN PARIS, A LINGERING PROBLEM OF FASHION EDUCATION.
With the arrival of MADE in Paris this season, alongside other young designer initiatives including the ‘Designers Apartment’ hosted by the Chambre Syndicale and the Festival d’Hyères, the fashion establishment in Paris finally seems ready to nurture the talent that will define its future.
But according to Nathalie Dufour, [...]
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April 4th, 2012 admin FROM THE RUNWAYS OF RUSSIA.
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, the biggest fashion event in Eastern Europe, will once again present the collections of leading Russian designers, talented debutantes, and foreign fashion houses.
From Wednesday to Sunday, the leading designers of post-Soviet fashion will present their new collections on the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week [...]