Haute couture: tháng 5 2012

Phax Swimwear flower pretty

I came across a photoshoot for Phax Swimwear for their Grace Collection starring Melissa Giraldo. I’ve never heard of them, I think they are from Puerto Rico and it’s a big collection of images and I don’t have time to post them all here today but will do when I return. Instead I chose these gorgeous images, flowers add so much prettiness to our everyday lives and these images are no exception.
And there’s no two colours that I love together more, pink and brown! It’s a very simple shoot but I think it’s effective.

What do you think? A touch of prettiness for Christmas!

Edita Vilkeviciute: Louis Vuitton Monogram-Empreinte Catalogue

Lithuanian model Edita Vilkeviciute is the face of Louis Vuitton’s Monogram-Empreinte 2011 collection and once again LV have totally nailed their aspirational campaign. Edita reminds me of Claudia Schiffer with her classic beauty!

Iza Olak & David Guerre | Esther Haase | Vanity Fair Italia Dec 7 2011 | Arthur & Marilyn

Photographer Esther Hasse does a splendid job of capturing the early magic of American playwright Henry Miller’s relationship with Marilyn Monroe, his second wife in an often tumultuous relationship that lasted 12 years. Iza Olak and David Guerre play the famous couple, with styling by Anna Brambilla for the December 7th issue of Vanity Fair Italia.
In his book ‘Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography’, by Christopher Bigsby, the author narrates the first time Miller met Monroe:

Miller first met Marilyn Monroe on the Fox lot. He and Kazan watched her at work on the set of As Young as You Feel. It was a nightclub scene and she was required to walk across the floor in a black open-work lace dress, swaying her hips in a way that Miller would later insist was natural to her (her footprints on a beach, he explained, ‘would be in a straight line, the heel descending exactly before the last toe print, throwing her pelvis into motion’). Others, less emotionally committed, spoke of her lowering the heel on one shoe to create the effect.
When the shot was over, she crossed to Kazan, who had met her once before with the agent Johnny Hyde, tears in her eyes, still upset by Hyde’s death. ‘From where I stood, yards away,’ Miller wrote in Timebends, ‘I saw her in profile against a white light, with her hair coiled atop her head; she was weeping under a veil of black lace that she lifted now and then to dab her eyes. When we shook hands, the shock of her body’s motion sped through me.’

Woman | Eva Herzigova | Vincent Peters | GQ Italy Aug 2008

Eva Herzigova channeled Marilyn Monroe for this GQ Italy editorial shot by the superbly-talented photographer Vincent Peters. Most Vincent Peters photographs express a modern classicism, a softly-seductive, timeless womanliness.
A beauty lost perhaps in our modern age? Not in Italy, where celebrating dolce vita moments with sensual women remains an art form — Vincent Peters style. All lingerie from Dolce & Gabbana.

Extraordinary Sensuality | Ayten Alpun Photography | New Eroticism Defined

Note: nudity Just posting Ayten Alpun’s deeply sensual images of Kira Mazura for the January 2011 issue of Marie Claire Turkey, we stopped by her website.
The truth is that Anne is real vulnerable this moment, so drenched in the beautiful images she’s pulling together for our Sensuality 2010 | 55 Fabulous Sensyal Style & Fashion Editorials. It’s a moment when Anne feels strongly that change is in the wind, in the hands of women photographers like Camilla Akrans and also Eastern influences of beauty an sensuality, as the luxury market repositions itself globally.
Arriving at Ayten Alpun’s website, these images greet us. What an magnificent visual statement about female sensuality and all the natural world. We are blown away! OMG! Another Swede! She’s Swedish!
Swedish women rule! (And that includes Anne.) Just kidding.
Ayten Alpun-Yilmaz worked as a photo assistant in Stockholm for four years and then “took a wild chance to see how business worked in Turkey. There she met (and married) Tamer Yilmaz. They founded fabrika.photography 10 years ago and are now a group of seven photographers in Istanbul.

Woman | Edita Vilkeviciute | Camilla Akrans | Coral Sand | Numero 103 May 2009

Note: Nudity We’re on a year-end mission to pull together editorials of significant beauty. Making beige radiate sensuality isn’t a given in the lens of many photographers. Texture, nuances of color and an artful eye must all come together. Edita Vilkeviciute and Camilla Akrans showed us just how inert the earth isn’t in this May 2009 editorial ‘Coral Sand’ for Numero #103, May 2009.