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Polaroid By Carlo Mollino

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

REVISITING PHILIPPE VENET

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

KATE MOSS : THE LOST CONTACTS: PHOTOGRAPHED BY DANA LIXENBeRG : VS MAGAZINE

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

CURRENT VIEWING: QUERELLE: FASSBINDER:1982

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

Contessa Christina Paolozzi : Hair by Kenneth, New York Photographed by Richard Avedon June 1961: Gelatin silver print

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

REFERENCE LIBRARY: HELMUT NEWTON'S : NEWTON ILLUSTRATED: Issue no 4

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

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