DREAMING OF ANOTHER WORLD - VOGUE ITALIA - TIM WALKER - MARCH 2011

DIARY LYLYBYE - JEAN CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC - PARIS 2011

DIARY LYLYBYE - GAINSBOURG, INITIALES L.G - SOTHEBY'S - PARIS 2011

60 VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION - GUEST EDITED BY RICARDO TISCI - GIVENCHY - JUNE 2011

We are pleased to announce the release of VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION, Guest Edited by Riccardo Tisci in collaboration with Givenchy. “Visionaire Sixty Religion was a truly important moment of reflection for me,” Riccardo says. “Made, in my mind, by some of the most important creative forces of our moment and some of the people I love the most, this collection of work celebrates religion, inner truths, inner dialogues, moments which words cannot quantify.”

Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, and James Kaliardos felt that the collaboration was a particularly invigorating one: “Working together with Riccardo and experiencing his process reminded us of the energy and charge we felt when we first conceived of Visionaire, and why we continue to create a publication that is evolving, experimenting, and transforming.”

RELIGION is Tisci’s meditation on the theme of “religion” as depicted by photos and art commissioned and curated by Tisci specially for this issue. Images are featured in black and white with gold pages. Independent of any divination, the issue’s theme draws inspiration from “religion” as a synonym for obsession, ritual, worship, apparition, and the celebration of humanity.

Visionaire Sixty Religion comes as a leather-wrapped 228-page hard- bound book. Inspired by a church altar piece, the case’s split doors open to reveal the black-on-black stamped book cover inside a black plexiglass lined interior. Contributors to Visionaire 60 include Marina Abramovic, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Lara Stone, Paolo Canevari, Franca Sozzani, Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mario Testino, Jefferson Hack, Patti Smith, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Nick Knight, Katy England, Kate Moss, Yann Vasnier, and many many more.

The limited edition offering will be on sale June 2011. For more information, stay tuned to
http://www.visionaireworld.com/index.php





Lea T by Giovanna Battaglia and Pierpaolo Ferrari

LANVIN - FALL 2011 - PARIS

An inordinate number of the Autumn/Winter 2011 Parisian collections seem dedicated to the indecipherable, indelible and iconic idea of French chic. That is, of course, Alber Elbaz's leitmotif at Lanvin - although his is a chic without the stuffing, raw-seamed and pre-washed. A chic with some edge, indeed.

A few Strange Hours ago in Paris, Christian Dior by Simon Procter

"The Strangest atmosphere, all was sadness and ghosts. John Gallianos last collection for Christian Dior with no John Galliano.

The House did an impressive job of guarding decorum but the Musee Rodin was filled with a hyper intense crowd of people either saying too much or not a thing. Meanwhile outside the great wooden gates an ugly mob had gathered heavily armed with iphones."

Simon Procter, Paris March 4th 2011

 

Galliano Waiting by Simon Procter

I shot this backstage three seconds before the Haute Couture show started in spring 2006.
I was watching him for a while and this was the one moment when the mask dropped and for just an instant you saw the terrible weight of it all.

Im getting ready to head out to the Christian Dior show at the musee Rodin, Gallianos' last show with the house of Christian Dior, some say his last show ever  This whole affair makes me really sad, something within it is deeply wrong.

S