Reference Library

So that's how the floating staircase at Halston's townhouse was done. Image via theexcellentpeople

This lavish selection of several hundred Polaroids preserves the essential mystery of a project both decadent and hermetic.

"Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic."
Carlos Mollino

Edited by Olivier Zahm with Carine Roitfeld, Authors: Cathy Horyn, and Amy Larocca

Venet's use of flannels and reversible wools would make of those materials,a kind of soft sculpture

His very architectural kite coats are said to be front and center on a certain inspiration board of that terribly directional designer ,

A pure state of 90's Kate-ness; PH Dana Lixenberg in VS magazine

This sitting with Kate Moss, shot some 15 years ago, was my first ever booking in the industry.

'Querelle' is a 100 in the TI Iconic Fashion Films spectrum

47 points because it is Fassbinder interpreting Jean Genet.( I mean I wouldn't want to see those two together in a bar in Brest ...after-hours.)

It was the contrasts, from fashion to reportage, from the celebrity to the everyday man that made Avedon the greatest of them all

There were only 4 issues of Newton Illustrated but each one was pure undiluted Newtonian id

"Two of the photographer's most sublime images are in this portfolio: The first is a naked woman being photographed up close, rather menacingly by two of Helmut Newton's assistants,

Andy Warhol always found the hottest angle on the rich and famous

Another Warhol book? Is his detritus inexhaustible? Well...yes.

Legendary Power Couple