Showing posts with label W Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W Magazine. Show all posts

W Magazine June 2012 Look of The Month: Viktoriya Sasonkina by Plamen Petkov

W Magazine June 2012 Look of The Month
Model: Viktoriya Sasonkina
Photography: Plamen Petkov
Stylist: Jane Larkworthy
Hair: David von Cannon
Make-up: James Kaliardos

W Magazine Trends June 2012 | Shannan Click by Patric Shaw

W Magazine Trends June 2012 cover and editorial
Model: Shannan Click
Photography: Patric Shaw
Stylist: Felicia Garcia-Rivera
Hair: Rutger
Make-up: Stevie Huynh






W Magazine March 2012 | Jourdan Dunn by Emma Summerton

W Magazine March 2012
Model:  Jourdan Dunn
Photographer:  Emma Summerton
Stylist:  Giovanna Battaglia
Hair:  Jimo Salako
Makeup:  Mathias Van Hoof



W Magazine March 2012 | Mariacarla Boscono by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

W Magazine March 2012
Model:  Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer:  Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Styling:  Edward Enninful
Hair:  Jimmy Paul
Makeup:  Sharon Dowsett

W Magazine March 2012 | Guinevere by Mario Sorenti

W Magazine March 2012
Model:  Guinevere Van Seenus
Photographer:  Mario Sorenti
Stylist:  Edward Enninful
Hair:  Recine
Makeup:  Dick Page




W Magazine March 2012 | Heather Marks by Santiago Sierra

W Magazine March 2012
Model:  Heather Marks
Photographer:  Santiago Sierra
Styling:  Jane Larkworthy & Patrick Mackie
Hair:  Teddy Charles
Makeup:  James Kaliardos



W Magazine December 2011 Editorial: Jourdan Dunn, ph: Emma Summerton, stylist: Edward Enninful

W Magazine December 2011 Editorial
Model: Jourdan Dunn
Photographer: Emma Summerton
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Make-Up: Miranda Joyce
Hair: Odile Gilbert

W Magazine December 2011 Editorial: Shannan Click, ph: Plamen Petkov, stylist: Jane Larkworthy

W Magazine December 2011 Editorial
Model: Shannan Click
Photographer: Plamen Petkov
Stylist: Jane Larkworthy
Makeup: James Kaliardos
Hair: David Von Cannon


Dorothy Zbornak inspires Alexander Wang

Alexander Wang to W Magazine:

"....the bags are named after TV show characters. We have the Brenda and Kelly [90210], the Dorothy shopper [The Golden Girls] and the Trudy [Miami Vice]. They’re all the shows that used to be on TV when I was growing up.”







Dorothy Zbornak (nee Petrillo), portrayed by the late Beatrice Arthur, is a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls.



On "The Golden Girls" the character Dorothy Zbornak's signature shoe was a flat suede scrunch boot, and she carried an oversize hobo bag - Although Bea Arthur has passed away, she continues to inspire Alexander Wang.

Jeremy Laing, Photo: Bruce Weber for W Magazine

W Magazine
Photo: Bruce Weber
Stylist: Alex White
Center: Jeremy Laing



From W Magazine:

Some designers start with a sketch. others, by draping on a form. For Canadian Jeremy Laing, however, the process kicks off with a little origami handiwork. "I work out how to achieve a shape by cutting and folding paper," Laing says. It explains the rather clean and architectural ethos behind his three-year-old line - and belies those formative years spent in Alexander McQueen's studio constructing high-drama runway showpieces. As Laing describes it, his collection is about the "appearance of simplicity that hides a complexity." But for all that apparent intellectualism, his fall collection is partly inspired by artist Josef Albers and kaleidoscopic symmetry - his clothes are easy, no-fuss wares. Prime examples: a billowy tank dress and a simple sheath with rivet details.

Jeremy Laing - Heather Marks, Photo: Chadwick Tyler

Chadwick Tyler photographed Heather Marks for Jeremy Laing on February 19, 2009 at F Space Gallery, 599 11th Avenue, New York.

Jeremy Laing Fall 2009
Model: Heather Marks
Photographer: Chadwick Tyler
















RIP Kenneth Paul Block

It is Friday, 65°F (18°C) and Sunny and I am wrecked.

Again.

Last Summer Yves Saint Laurent passed. And now Kenneth Paul Block has passed as well.

It is getting harder and harder to find the human touch in fashion..........something that was created by a real person, that has their fingerprints on it.

How much more digital photography, copycats, misogyny, porno chic, designer t-shirts, skinny jeans, latex leggings and tranny shoes can I take?

No matter what happens, I promise to focus harder to see the tangible beauty in this world. I remain open to all positive possibilities.

Yves Saint Laurent, by Kenneth Paul Block:


Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian inspired dress, by Kenneth Paul Block:


Yves Saint Laurent's 1976 Ballet Russes collection, by Kenneth Paul Block:


Longtime WWD and W magazine illustrator Kenneth Paul Block, 84, a champion of the art of fashion illustration, died Thursday at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

The cause of death was complications from a fall he suffered earlier in the week, according to his nephew, Steven.

Men wore fedoras and women still wore gloves when Block joined Fairchild Publications Inc. in the Fifties. And none of that dash was lost on Block, whose fondness for ascots, cigarette holders and impeccable jackets never waned, nor did what one friend described as his Dorian Gray-like youthfulness. But his studied drawings were never strictly surface, always managing to capture the gesture at hand, whether it be the swing of a skirt or the tilt of the head. “I was never only interested in the clothes. I was more interested in the women in the clothes,” he once said.

One of three boys growing up, Block was the kind of kid who appreciated the chicness of his fashion editor aunt Elsie Dick’s zip-front fur jacket. He combed through Harper’s Bazaar magazines in the attic of his family’s home in Larchmont, N.Y.

At Parsons School of Design, he was drawn to what he described as the “world of immense style,” introduced by interior designer Van Day Truex. After graduating, Block’s first job was sketching for McCall’s Patterns, a post friends said he would rather have omitted from his résumé. But Block went on to cement his presence as a leading fashion illustrator during his reign at Fairchild Publications, which lasted until the fashion illustration department was disbanded in 1992. Through it all, he swiftly, yet fastidiously, captured an array of subjects with a cool and detached manner, jetting to Europe for the couture shows or sauntering just up the street to sketch unsuspecting notables at lunch (martini in hand to mask his intentions). All the while, he fulfilled what he once described as a childhood quest “to draw glamorous women in beautiful clothes.”

Block’s portfolio was packed with portraits of blue bloods such as Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and Jackie Kennedy, as well as commercial work for Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and labels such as Halston and Perry Ellis. But for Block, the end result was never just a matter of lines on a page.

“Gesture to me is everything in fashion. It is the way we stand, sit, walk and lie. It is the bone,” he once said.