American Vogue - May 2008 - Shannan Click

American Vogue, Raymond Meier, Shannan Click, Women Blog
Raymond Meier photographed Shannan Click for American Vogue on January 30th & 31st, 2008 in the server room at 4 Times Square.
Last night, we were presenting the secure of the latest Tuscany Vogue's The holidays are version devoted to music. The secure was a amazing Kate Moss clothed into a Ziggy Stardust Mark Bowie.

The holidays are problem of the People from france version of the most powerful style journal also features Olivia Newton-John getting Bob Travolta, Darlene John and Boy Henry share a page, as well as Kanye Western, Baxter Dury, etc.

Looking at all these famous visitor celebrities and turning the pages of this journal which sometimes seems like checking out an art book, one question jumped up in my mind. What created Fashion the most powerful style magazine?

* A strong history: the roots of Fashion go returning to 1892 when Arthur Turnure established Fashion as a every week book in the United States and became popular in Tuscany and Tuscany returning in the 20's.

* The community is supposed to be to Vogue: with 16 nationwide editors-in-chief, Fashion journal protects most of the style planet, with versions in nations such as Indian, South america, Poultry and Taiwan!

* A questionable popularity fed my films such as the Demon would wear Prada in a roundabout way visualizing the legendary Ould - Wintour as the satanic force, no less!. Ould - Wintour, is, of course, the writer in primary of Fashion USA. Also, the 2009-released documented eligible The Sept Issue, provided an inside view of the production of the record-breaking Sept 2007 problem of US Fashion.

* Vogue's best and toughest asset: Ould - Wintour. The present editor-in-chief of American Fashion mentioned for her signature bob and her practice of dressed in eyewear inside your home, took over the famous journal in 1988, and has worked since then to secure the position of the paper. Since her introduction there she decided to make Fashion focus on making style accessible to a greater viewers. And she did it, enabling her to reach out to a wide viewers while getting the means to dig further to find the next trends!

* Focusing on growing economies: Another way Fashion uses to put in its effect it to start nationwide versions in growing financial systems such as Tuscany. Started in 1998, Fashion Tuscany was used to present European females to a new community of style and opportunities in a post-Socialist community.

* Including social value: Finally Fashion increases attention over issues on the present governmental plan. The burqa, for example, came out in a style propagate in Fashion in 2006 and the book has presented articles on popular Islamic females, their approach to style and the effect of different societies on style and womens lives.

The journal is today the 'world's most powerful style magazine', to quotation the NY Times.

Mary Sauer

Anna, oil on canvas, 40 X 30 in.
 

Carmen Kass - Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog
Classic locks pictures can be seen in interval films, on some sites, or in a few guides. Femme Fatale: Well-known Ladies Then and Now (2001) is a huge picture publication by superstar hair stylist Serge Normant. It is complete of contemporary superstars dressed in vintage locks. The protect taken is Julia Roberts with a Twenties bob locks do.

There is one section for each several decades from 1900 to 2000. At the starting of each section, there are 10 to 20 pictures of non-celebrities with different interval locks. These are household images published to the writer. Then the several decades is presented with 1 web page of textual content without any pictures. It summarizes the activities of that interval and describes how they affected womens locks design. The relax of the section reveals only superstar pictures and has no textual content.

The company of the publication is easy in date purchase, but there is no desk of material which can help you identify a several decades or superstar. The webpages aren't designated except on the textual content web page which presents the section. At the returning of the publication there are four webpages of pictures like on a website; they have the brands of the superstars below them, but without the season corresponding to the locks do.

Femme Fatale was designed by the cooperation of three experts: Serge Normant, a top People from france hairdresser; Eileen Thompson, a famous design photographer; and Bridget Foley, a womens design journal writer.

The styles for the publication were done on top styles and stars. For example, you see the locks do conversions of the best 90's supermodels: Cindy Crawford; Christy Turlington; Claudia Schiffer; Kate Moss; and Carmen Kass. The foreword was published by English celebrity Age Hurley and there are some pictures of her in the publication. Because the concentrate is on top styles and superstars, there are few older females. The exclusions are: Leslie Sarandon; Ellen Barkin; and Linda Locklear. There are only a few dark-colored women: Alex Wek; Ananda Lewis; and Naomi Campbell.

The unforgettable styles are the ones on wonderful females which were significant conversions from how we normally see them these days, or those which are just definitely gorgeous:

1) Cindy Crawford has her locks up in a big traditional 1910s updo.

2) Ellen Barkin is innovative like Sixties alarm Bridget Bardot. There are two Bardot styles; for one her locks is up and for the other it is down.

3) Cate Blanchett seems to be absolutely different with a very brief pixie locks do from the 90's which is almost a team cut. Normant provides both the top part and part opinions of it.

Unfortunately there are not enough pictures for popular decades. For example, there are only four different superstar locks for the Thirties and another four for the 40s. For decades 40s locks have been the favourite vintage locks.

Even so, the few we see are amazing. There is Ellen Barkin as Jean Harlow with jewelry golden-haired surf, and Julianne Moore with extravagant lengthy red locks after a Rita Hayworth remodeling. Olga Pantushenkova has a Thirties chignon that would be ideal for a contemporary wedding; the top part is elegant and the returning is magnificent.

Femme Fatale is a publication of motivation but not instructions. It is very hefty with pictures but rather lighting on textual content. The three professionals did well, but it would have been much more useful if they had used a 4th professional who offered step-by-step guidelines on how to reproduce the vintage locks. It was unexpected that Normant himself did not offer the information because he designed the looks!

The subtitle "Famous Ladies Then and Now" could be misunderstood to mean that the publication contains images of Celebrities taken decades ago and lately. But there aren't any such old pictures; it only has contemporary superstars created up to look like old superstars and old images of females who aren't famous.

It is a fun publication for females who like to decorate their locks in high design or just desire a little. Unless you have plenty of some time to expertise to reproduce the locks styles by Serge Normant without guidelines, i.e., wondering and examining, you will want to use this publication to demonstrate your hair stylist what you want. To get a do-it-yourself information on vintage locks with step-by-step guidelines, your best bet is: Classic Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Methods by Lauren Rennells.

INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE, VINOODH MATADIN AND EUGENE VAN LAMSWEERDE

March 14 – May 3, 2008 Opening: March 13, 2008, 7-9 pm

The show is the third installment of an ongoing series entitled The Now People which began in 2003 at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

Part Three: The Women includes some of the sculptural works from Life on Earth as well as an installation entitled The Seance, which is a collection of silk screened photographs pierced by metal as to actualize thoughts, energies, and emotions into a physical tangibility. Three large scale new photo works entitled Woman 1, 2 and 3 have been made specifically for this show that investigate the erotic portrait by means of sculpting Carmen Kass' face into a phallic shaped object.

This show contains only images of women inspired by new and old female archetypes: the feminist, the object, the demon, the earth mother, the trickster, the shaman and the innocent. Andreas Grimm Gallery

Inez & Vinoodh have photographed Carmen for French Vogue, Japanese Vogue, & the iconic Narciso Rodriguez perfume campaign.

Fifty-One Books and Counting!



by columnist Donna Shor
Photo credit:  Courtesy of The Hay Adams

Kay Enokido of The Hay Adams Hotel hosted a fascinating lunch for her Author Series, this time featuring Joyce Carol Oates and the signing of her latest novel “Mudwoman.”

Oates, America’s and possibly the world’s most prolific author, started writing at age fourteen after her grandmother happened to give her a typewriter.

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Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog

Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog

Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog
It is currently 57 degrees (14 degrees Celsius) and sunny in NY. I photographed Georgina relaxing on the roof today. Seen on the Women couch today-left to right:
Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Suzanne Diaz, Alison Nix, Masha Tyelna & Viktoriya Sasonkina.