I absolutely love photography. I couldn't count the times I've opened a blog post like that but it's true. I keep folders filled with imagery just to glance at from time to time to inspire me. While we expect images to sell us fashion it sometimes comes with the added bonus of just being beautiful to look at it. As is the case with Tyson Ballou and these lovely images of him in the woods. Photographed for GQ Japan by Alexi Lubomirski. Manly, isolated and filled with the warm knits and thermals we often find ourselves in during the Winter season. Enjoy the escape.
New-old favorite Tony Ward is not afraid to get wet. In this just released Spring 2011 campaign the 'Viva' model goes swimming and stands under his um-ba-rella for a fresh take shoot outdoors. Don't you agree that some of the best shoots are the simplest in concept?
For Thom Browne's S/S 11 collection he reigned in Way Perry to style this fantastic and quirky shoot. Benny Horne does yet another fantastic job, this time at documenting the trio of Salieu Jaloh, Henry Watkins and the latest addition to Browne's catalog, Ambrose Carter. That fish jacket is so up my alley!
Hedi Slimane is a photographer famous for taking beautiful photo's of young athletic male models in editorials. 26 years ago, "the worlds first male supermodel" Jeff Aquilon was one of those boys. Now back in 2010 he returns to modeling with a feature in Vman #19 (for which Josh Brolin is the cover model) which hit stores today. The third image is was taken back in 1984 by Bruce Weber and featured in Vman #9. It certainly shows you don't lose the ability to pose 30 years after the fact.
When Fashion tells you to add a splash of colour, be mindful of how much. Appearing all over Summer 2010 in not only menswear by ladieswear too, one of the newer trends is paint. Used by designers, Thakoon, Alexander McQueen and BCBG to name just three, this paint theme is really making a splash!
Using paint in fashion has even made it's way to print campaigns such as Lanvin, and editorials like the one below in FHM with the black dipped hands. It goes to show that even a novice Fashionisto could take out a paint bucket and spruce up and old pair of jeans. But do so, cautiously.
Don't be surprised that a trend like this lands up in VOGUE HOMME, But on your underpants too? Well that's Fashion for you.
Robert Pattinson shot a steamy editorial with Photographer Norman Jean Roy for Details magazine. So while these are the only shots I will show you here (they get a little steamier) you can see the others here.
Including the interview that accompanied the cover model's shoot! Below is a snippet.
COFFEE It's the unseasonably cold November of 2008 when I go to New York's Bowery Hotel. There's a young man sitting in the garden, wrapped in about nine black sweaters and wearing a wool hat, smoking cigarettes, sipping a latte the size of his head, and furiously making notes on a script in the bitter cold. I have read about teenage girls lighting themselves on fire in front of his hotel, but at the moment Robert Pattinson is warming his hands on a coffee cup.
Hello, I'm Jenny. I think I'm here so you can check me out. "Okay. I'm Rob. Um . . . would you like some fries? With gravy?"
Allen Coulter, the director of Hollywoodland and a creative force behind The Sopranos, has sent me. He was thinking about doing this movie—it wasn't quite there yet, but I should "come meet Rob."
Rob. When he came to the United States, he slept on his agent's sofa and then got a small part in a movie called Harry Potter and the Something of Something, which grossed nearly $900 million worldwide. And then he made another one, called Twilight, which grossed $385 million in theaters and almost another $200 million in U.S. DVD sales. Box-office riches, like so much of the female population of this planet, follow him from continent to continent, nursing a raging crush.
Coulter suggested I do some rewrite work on Remember Me (for the record, there is only one credited writer, Will Fetters), the first American release in which Rob will portray a mortal, nonmagical, carbon-based life form of the earthly realm—Salvador Dalí, whom he played in Little Ashes, surely doesn't qualify. As Rob scribbles away on the script's pages, it's clear he is starting his own revision process.
Rob's face is constantly busy—especially his kaleidoscopic eyes, which are continually rolling and dilating, because he is always thinking. Over the course of that latte, he contemplates Jimi Hendrix, French fries, girls, art, beer, his cousin the philosopher, girls, truth, God, his dog, girls, and whether this week's stalker has followed him from L.A. I don't think he could turn his brain off if he wanted to.
Despite the legion of fans trailing him from hotel to hotel, laying siege to each like the Roman army, he is neither fearful nor cocky—he's hungry, curious, forever reaching intellectually. That may not sound like a big deal, but think of the context: Complete strangers want to fuck you, shoot you, be you, buy you, sell you, run their fingers through your hair, watch you have sex, hear you pee, eat chips with you, and kidnap you and stuff you in the trunk of their car. And you? You must know more, more, more about exotic tropical diseases.
Rob and I discover we share a mutual fascination with afflictions that maim and disfigure and disgust: He brings up cancrum oris, in which bacteria eat away at your face until you get kind of a window in the side of your head and the entire world sees your teeth; I mention cyclic vomiting syndrome, a condition in which you puke literally all the goddamn time; he delights in lymphatic filariasis, where parasitic worms burrow into your lymph nodes and can make your balls swell to the size of watermelons, forcing you to tote them around in a wheelbarrow.
We come up with a blockbuster hit movie, entitled Candiru Infestation, about a tiny fish that swims up your urethra and into your urinary tract and lodges in your cock with backward-facing umbrella spikes it shoots from its spine....
L'Official Hommes in it's newest issue takes the Mickey (see what I did there?) out of American Heroes of all kinds. Featuring model Arthur Sales in a fantastic editorial entitled "We could be Heroes" dressed up (and in some cases down) as Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader and Batman among others. Photographed by Milan Vukmirovic.
In a colourful editorial (yes in South Africa we spell it with a "u") for Wad magazine, Claire Duport and Laura Watters cast their minds back to a palate of childlike pastels. Styling that could have been the birthchild of Paul Smith and Marc Jacobs to name only two...
Photographer Laurent Humberts editorial entitled “Boys to Men” features Jeremy Dufour and Florian Bourdila. There are so many parts of this that I love! The bow-tie chain, the bows on the shoes and the pastel leather jacket! And what surprised me more was how much I love the oversized trousers in the first image. Keep in mind this style is starting to make appearances!
Photographed by Massimo Pamparana and modelled by the Oscar Spendrup for a mens editorial for NEW WAVE in association with The Ones to Watch. Inspiring and twisted photography. Love it. Check out the awesome jacket in picture four!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on the cover of December 09's issue of Harpers Bazaar.
The new Marlon Brando, Robert Pattinson is said to be wearing Dolce and Gabbana for the Big upcoming premieres of NEW MOON, according to Stefano Gabbana's twitter page. Only 20 odd days to go Twilight fans!
