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Model Naomi Campbell.

Sadly the beautiful Ruslana Korshunova (Руслана Ќоршунова) born July 2, 1988 a Kazakhstani model ended her own life on Saturday June 28, 2008. Details here. May she rest in peace.

Happy Gay Pride Day!

Estella Warren for Chanel. I loved this campaign, so simple and effective.

Patrick’s looking good on the cover.

Nomie Lenoir should have been photographed for Vogue Italia’s Black issue.
She’s so beautiful.
Vogue Paris June/July2008
photo source: RockTheTrend.

Inspired by Barack Obama, Yes We Can. Go here for a listen.

Photographed by Bruce Weber.

The iconic bottle by Andy Warhol.

This was the photo by Barry Lategan, that started it all for Lesley Hornby/Twiggy. Originally shot for a Leonard of London Salon advert. The Daily News UK dubbed her “The Face of 1966″.

That’s Brit photog Norman Parkinson that you see in the video. Then I think that may be photographer David Bailey’s voice in the video saying that Twiggy was manufactured and that he preferred “The Shrimp”…I think he was just the cranky sort, upset that he didn’t discover her. Plus wasn’t he Jean Shrimpton’s lover at one time? Twiggy was the face of her generation, who cares how she got there?
She started trends, like the little lashes drawn under the eyes that were called ‘twiggys” after her.

Sitting (1967) by Barry Lategan © Barry Lategan.

Late 70s Twig with her hair grown long for Vogue UK cover by Barry Lategan.

Here’s an amazing interview where Twiggy talks about photographer Steven Meisel…

“I got a call from Steven Meisel in ‘93 saying, “Will you let me do a fashion spread on you? It’s Italian Vogue.” And I happened to love Italian Vogue. So I said yes. And I’m so glad I did, ’cause they were amazing photographs. It was a 10-page spread, I think. It was gorgeous.

Here’s a lovely story about Steven. I turned up in New York in ‘93 to do the shoot, and he came in and I said, “Oh, how lovely to meet you, I’m thrilled.” He said, “Well actually, we’ve met before.” And I was really embarrassed, ’cause I didn’t remember. And he said, “It’s alright, you wouldn’t remember. I was about 12, and it was when you first came to New York, and me and my friend, we lived in Brooklyn, and we had seen you on the news and we were obsessed with you. And we decided to take a day off school and find you and we wanted to meet you.”

So they didn’t tell their mums, they played hooky from school. They came over to Manhattan. At the time, Burt Stern, another incredibly famous photographer, was doing a documentary about my trip to New York for CBS. So there was camera crew and lighting, and we were doing a fashion session.

So these two little boys somehow found out where we were, rang the doorbell of this studio, and the stylist answered, a young lady called Ally McGraw.

W: What?!
T: Yeah, before she acted-isn’t that funny? She was the stylist. She went to answer the door, and there were these two kids there, and they said, “We want to meet Twiggy.” And she said, “Go away, you can’t come in.” The cameraman of the documentary crew overheard and thought, Oh, it’d make a great thing on film, and said to Ally, “No, let them come in, let them come in.”

So I came out of the dressing room, and there were these two boys-I don’t remember this, I have to say, but for Steven, obviously, it was a big moment in his life. I said, “Oh God, I hope I was nice to you.” And he said, “Yeah, you were.” And he actually brought with him the signed picture that I’d done for him. He said, “We chatted for a bit and you signed a picture for us, and then we left. We ran home, and had to tell our moms that we played hooky. On the train on the way back, I said to my friend, ‘I’m going to be a photographer, and one day I’m going to photograph her.’”

Isn’t that amazing? So that was in ‘68, and 25 years later he did.”

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