Welcome to VMAN Spring 2010 issue, three different covers shot by Mario Testino with Nick Jonas, and Nick tell you how to go solo. How to be a movie star by Willy Vanderperre. The future holds for 22-year-old artor Daren Kagasoff. 20 years of the smart and smolders Dolce & Gabbana man. Pop music in 2010 can mean just about anything, meet five guys who wear their songs on their shirtsleeves. Great books to expand the frontiers of the mind.
First Spring (一年之计) is Prada’s latest collaboration with pioneering Chinese artist Yang Fudong 杨福东. Featuring young man gathered in Shanghai, dressed in Prada menswear, the black and white film portrays a timeless, dreamlike realm where anything is possible. Inspired by the Chinese adage that “the whole year’s work depends on a good start in Spring” (一年之计在于春), this bold and beautiful film represents an exciting new direction for Prada’s visual communications at the start of this decade.
Surface Magazine #80 featured a special cover story China Doll, shot by Chinese fashion photographer Liu Song “刘颂” with stylist and fashion designer Xander Zhou and model Wang Xiao “王潇”. Liu turned to photography after seeing Michelangelo Antonioni‘s Blow Up in 2007, he has shot for publications such as Rolling Stone, L’officiel, Cosmopolitan, Yoho and O’zine, he is currently based in based in both Beijing and Shanghai. This fashion editorial is Liu’s first assignment for Surface magazine, and took him to two new spaces in Beijing, where he captured looks from Chinese native fashion designers, include Vega Wang, Les Jin “金翀宇”, Xander Zhou “周翔宇”, He Yan “何艳”, Qiu Hao “邱昊”, Liu Fang, and etc.
Welcome to the V magazine’s size issue, Actresses Dakota Fanning and Gabourey Sidibe shared the double cover, Sølve Sundsbø and Nicola Formichetti zoom in on the plus-sized supers of the moment. Terry Richardson finds that Spring’s most sizzling looks can work on any figure. Sebastian Faena hits the streets of Barcelona to shoot supermodel Iris in most Spring’s most sinful looks. Terry Tsiolis shoots characters of every size, shape, color, and creed. Karl Lagerfeld photographs burlesque dancer Miss Dirty Martini in the hallowed halls of the Chanel atelier.
These Lady Gaga dolls designed by Veik，he has acquired a fierce following through his Flickr set, where he posts photographs and DIY demonstrations of his mini Gaga dolls. : )
Sexy and stunning fashion photography by Santiago-based photographer Matías Troncoso, more surprises in his Flickr Gallery.
高级定制时装（Haute Couture）自诞生以来，作为身份、地位和品位的象征，有过曾经的辉煌，也引领者西方甚至全球的时尚产业向前发展，但是时间走到21世纪，特别是近两年的经济萧条，让其作为时装王国女皇的地位和存在价值越来越受到质疑。未来，高级定制时装存在的更大意义，也许在于人们抱着神圣的眼光和心态去瞻仰和怀恋，就如同她曾经伴随我们度过一次次的经济危机一样，让人倍感温暖。同时，新兴市场对于高级定制的窥探和尝试，也将是其生存的希望所在。
