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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.

Your Skin Against My Skin, starring Michael Pitt, directed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

In celebration of Creative Director Stefano Pilati’s AW 09-10 Homme collection for Yves Saint Laurent, the iconic French fashion house has released a short film created by photographers Inez can Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

The film stars actor and musician Michael Pitt who is best known for his roles in films such as Last Days, Bully and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

The film, shot in black and white, pays homage to the Yves Saint Laurent AW collection in a tender exchange between Pitt and an unseen woman. The frame is filled with Pitt’s face, and focuses on his reactions to the softly spoken words of the invisible woman. She speaks lovingly about clothing as Pitt looks on in silent reverence at a spectacle that is entirely hidden from the audience. The physical absence of this enigmatic woman causes the imagination to run wild, as it is easy to imagine her behind the lens, slowly undressing herself to the speechless wonder of Pitt.

The cameraman for Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's film, Your Skin Against My Skin, was Harris Savides, who usually works with Gus Van Sant.




Your Skin Against My Skin reminds me of a short film directed by Andy Warhol. Filmed in January 1964, the 35-minute film was shot with a 16-millimetre Bolex silent camera on black-and-white film. It depicts the face of an anonymous young man (DeVeren Bookwalter) as he receives relations from an off-screen partner, widely reported to be avant-garde filmmaker Willard Maas.








While shot at 24 fps, Warhol specified that it should be projected at 16 fps, slowing it down by a third.

Despite the explicit subject matter, the camera shows only the expression on the young man's face. The act itself is not seen. It is unknown whether it is a male or a female performing the act, and it is unseen, therefore the viewer must simply take it at face value that relations are indeed occurring.



Givenchy Spring 2009 campaign preview: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin photographed Mariacarla Boscono for the Givenchy spring 2009 campaign on October 23, 2008 at Pier 59 Studios, studio #1, in New York

Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Hairdresser: Luigi Murenu
Makeup: Tom Pecheux

Wednesday September 10, 2008



September 10 was a work day for me. After work, I went to the Anna Sui show with my co-workers. We had an unprecedented amount of models in the show:


  1. Agyness Deyn
  2. Bruna Tenorio
  3. Isabeli Fontana
  4. Jourdan Dunn
  5. Katrin Thormann
  6. Mina Cvetkovic
  7. Natasha Poly
  8. Naty Chabanenko
  9. Shannan Click
  10. Suzanne Diaz
  11. Toni Garrn
  12. Viktoriya Sasonkina
  13. Vlada Roslyakova

For Women, 13 was a lucky number!

After the show, I went to the V Magazine party, celebrating the V Magazine covers that Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin photographed, at the Mini Cooper Rooftop in Hell's Kitchen. Usually I skip fashion parties - especially during Fashion Week. But, I was with my co-workers and it seemed like a good idea at the time. We were able to skip the long line outside because we were with one of the models who was on the cover of V Magazine - who was also DJ'ing that night.

As soon as we got up the stairs, I was greeted by a girl I know.

This girl claims to be my friend, but she's not very friendly. Usually when I see her, she's quite rude. When I see her, sometime she will say hello, sometimes she won't. Either way, it doesn't matter to me.

The party was fun. Lykke Li performed.

Today I was looking through the latest V Magazine, and on page 42, the party page, I saw the photos that JD Ferguson took at the party. JD is a friend of mine. I once styled a test he shot of Carolina Pantoliano. I was shocked to see that JD photographed Barbara Bush at the V Magazine Party!

I was at the same party as Barbara Bush and I didn't know it!

Not George W. Bush's mother, the one who on March 18, 2003, two days before the beginning of the war on Iraq, when ABC's Good Morning America asked her about her family's television viewing habits; she replied:
I watch none. He [former President Bush] sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don't take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him suffer.

And, while visiting a Houston relief center for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, told the radio program Marketplace,
"Almost everyone I've talked to says, 'We're gonna move to Houston.' What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas... Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, and so many of the people in the arenas here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them".

No, not that Barbara Bush.

No, I was at the same party as George W. Bush's daughter, also named Barbara Bush.

I am disappointed I didn't get the opportunity to meet her, and talk to her. Barbara Bush is the same age as my brother, Joseph. Besides being my brother, and my best friend, Joseph is an Iraq War Veteran. He joined the Marines as a teenager and was sent to Iraq in 2003. My brother was in Iraq at the same time that Barbara Bush was interning at Proenza Schoueler. Our father is retired from the phone company, and currently drives a bus - he picks up senior citizens and brings them to the senior citizen recreation center.

Barbara Bush's father, George W. Bush, is until January 29, 2009, the President of the United States of America (POTUS). Barbara Bush's father made a series of claims prior to the Iraq War, each intended to support the idea that Saddam Hussein was a grave and imminent threat. None of these claims were true.

Eight Pre-War Bush Claims since proven false:
No weapons of mass destruction of any kind were found in Iraq.
No mobile biological weapons labs were found in Iraq.
Iraq did not seek to acquire yellowcake uranium from Africa.
The aluminum tubes were not suitable for nuclear weapons development.
Mohamed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker, did not meet with Iraqi intelligence in Prague.
Iraq did not provide chemical weapons training to al-Qaeda.
There was no collaborative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
The implication that Iraq was involved in the attacks of 9/11 was untrue.

According to The U.S. Department of Defense, as of December 16, 2008, 10 a.m., there were
4,211 US military fatalities in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. 17,279 US soldiers were wounded in action in this area.

My brother, Joseph, could have been one of those dead or wounded soldiers. Fortunately he is alive, safe, and lives with me.

If I had met Barbara Bush at the V Magazine party on September 10, 2008 I would have asked her some tough, but fair, questions. Although I can not hold her responsable for the actions of her father, I would want some answers.

I left the party shortly after midnight. I'm not sure if Barbara Bush was still at the party. Perhaps I accidentally spent part of the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at a party with Barbara Bush!

On September 11, 2001 I was working at a different modelling agency in NYC, with direct views of the World Trade Center.

On 9/11/2001 Barbara Bush's father, President George W. Bush was reading The Pet Goat to a group of schoolchildren at Emma E. Booker Elementary School at the moment (then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card) informed him of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

After Card informed him that United Airlines Flight 175 had hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center, Bush continued reading the book for more than seven minutes. Bush's critics, notably Michael Moore in his film Fahrenheit 9/11, have argued that the fact that Bush continued to read the book after being notified of the attacks shows that he was indecisive. After spending about twenty minutes with the children, Bush was scheduled to give a short press conference at about 9:30. At the conference inside the school, Bush made his first speech about the attacks and was not evacuated by the Secret Service. According to Bill Sammon in Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House, Bush's then-Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was in the back of the classroom holding a pad on which he had written "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET."Osama bin Laden made reference to the story in a videotaped speech released just prior to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, claiming that Bush's reading of the book had given the hijackers more than enough time to carry out the attacks.

Every day I think about that day, and being in Manhattan and how my life was changed since then.

If I spoke to Barbara Bush at V Magazine party I would ask her how 9/11 changed her life. I would ask her how often she thinks about 9/11.

While my brother was in Iraq. I couldn't read the New York Times, or watch the news at all. Every time I heard anything about Iraq I could only imagine the worst. The day he came home safe was the biggest relief of my life.

If I spoke to Barbara Bush at the V Magazine party I would ask her if she was able to read the New York Times or watch the tv news while she was interning at Proenza Schouler.

I know that's not really party talk. But I have learned that true freedom is the ability to speak truth to power.

Video of Barbara Bush's father, George W. Bush reading on 9/11: