Corner of Lafayette and Houston Street NYC

"The most inspiring thing for me about Calvin Klein was how subversive the advertising message was.

This image as a billboard? The kids are going to pass out. Viva Steven Klein

David Agbodji's truth is now self-evident.

I would kill for a 72" by 48" print of these images

This dble panel by Steven Klein....what a beautiful synching of casting ..styling..photography and graphic layout.

Fernando Vazquez Van Der Laan In EY #4 PH Steven Klein

Steven Klein Goes To ArgentEENa and TI feels that!

TI is obsessed with the June/July 2006 issue of L'Uomo Vogue

I was in LA the day the issue dropped in the US. I was just leaving Mauro's at Fred Segal's when my phone blurbled an incoming email from Jason Kanner at Major.

Photographed by Steven Klein for Vogue Paris Feb 2009

Just before the All-Lara Stone Feb issue of Vogue Paris went on the stands, the internet was hit with a burst of imagery allegedly from the Steven Klein edit titled "Lara Fiction Noire". Yet when the magazine finally emerged several of those powerful images were not in the proper editorial. A casual trace revealed those out-takes had come from the stevenkleinstudio.com website, in a flash series titled "Uncensored". Whatever the vagaries behind what was published and what was not published lay a fascinating story of passion on the part of the photographer and a testament to the burgeoning power of the internet as a vital (and viral) distribution center of insider imagery. Already this editorial has rippled across the fashion groupie radar as one of the most controversial series of imagery thus far this year. With those thoughts as the backdrop TI emailed Mr Klein with a couple of questions for this exclusive interview. This is what he had to say...

Madonna and a young man named Jesus by Steven Klein for W

Lara Stone/ Travis Hanson/ In Vogue Paris Feb 09 Photographed by Steven Klein Styled by Marie Amelie Sauve

Spot The Fake 1 2006 : Miles Aldridge

Viva Print! Bravo Qvest!

I love magazines but print...something about it has been starting to feel so ...antique. Beautiful , yes but beautiful like paintings in a museum . It wasn't that the format was the problem. I still love the smell, the feel , the presence of paper....the tactile joy thereof of turning page after page. But what has become difficult for me was that formulaic ...impersonal... content where more and more editors were bent on only discussing the advertisers in their pages and a short list of very established and therefore redundant talent in music, film and design. And then I got the new Qvest in the mail