The April 2010 issue of L’Officiel Hommes China, Karl Lagerfeld’s unforgettable muse Baptiste Giabiconi is on the cover, shot by Xiang Sun “孙瑞祥” and styled by Barnabé Hardy. In this ICONS issue, Baptiste channels a diverse selection of music icons from Bowie and Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga.
The Shanghai Tang spring/summer 2010 collection, Love Restraint “情束” shot by international fashion photographer Richard Ramos captures the intensity of emotions between the ardent lovers portrayed by Chinese supermodel Sun Fei Fei “孙菲菲” and rising male model Takashi Watanabe “渡部高志”on their lovers’ voyage through Asia.
In this Spring 2010 issue of Foam Magazine present portfolios by eight photographers: Michael Wolf, Paul Kooiker, Tim Hetherington, Prague’s Secret Police, Evan Baden, Trevor Paglen, Chris Jordan, and Yasmine Chatila, give expression to the theme of peeping in extremely varied and unexpected ways. View #22 / Peeping online edition below.
Blustery Day is so funny, shot by Los Angeles based photographer Hugh Kretschmer, he’s knack for creating fanciful, surreal images with graphic mastery, dramatic collage effect, express a passion for twentieth century painting and sculpture through the lens.
Dutch duo Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers, the creators of Fantastic Man, launched a new title called The Gentlewoman, fashion designer Ms. Phoebe Philo from the house of CÉLINE is on the cover, shot by Mr. David Sims, and Ms. Penny Martin is the editor in chief of the whole project.
The T Magazine published the latest Men’s Fashion Spring 2010 issue, cover star Josh Brolin shot by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, more contents include: Hermès’ artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas is making the august French house more relevant than ever; the actor Gaspard Ulliel channels the season’s nouvelle vague look; and Marc Newson shows us his new London home, which is part chalet, part spaceship.
A graduate from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Setareh Mohtarez seeks inspiration from the vast and infinite space system. Her designs, each one resembling a snapshot of the star-spangled galaxy, architecturally molded into a garment. Each of the outfits has colors taken from the rainbow palette, paired with chunky platform heels of a contrasting color to vividly bring out the forms and molded structures of the outfit. The pleats, folds, and creases are so perfectly done, I just cannot imagine how much has gone into creating such beautiful galactic masterpieces! I’m pretty sure Mohtarez is on her way to becoming the next great designer.
