And so, I am back to photography. Or maybe I never really left it, because—if we’re being honest—there is something about an image that is so much more than just an image, more than light and shadow and contrast, more than the mechanics of exposure and aperture and shutter speed. It’s a distilled, almost brutal... More

There’s a certain trick to looking at an Oliviero Toscani photograph, and the trick is that you can’t just look. You have to react. Your stomach tightens, your pupils constrict, your hands involuntarily curl into little fists of unease or intrigue or outright discomfort. Toscani’s work—if we are willing to call it just that, as... More

So here’s the thing about Alessandro Michele’s aesthetic, and by “aesthetic” I don’t just mean a visual style, a mere parade of fabrics and silhouettes, but rather the whole unwieldy and deeply referential tangle of his Gucci years (2015–2022), an aesthetic that, depending on who you ask, was either (a) a triumph of individualism against... More

“Emotionally, it’s very difficult for me to look at old work I’ve done,” the photographer Steven Meisel told Tim Blanks in a 2015 interview. “It’s either because I look at what I could have done better, or I start crying over the people. I’m ridiculously sensitive, that’s just who I am, so it’s really tough... More

Sometimes you come across pieces that fascinating you so much that it is not only about fashion trend. The curiosity leads you to great stories that help you to explore fashion life today and understand how the fashion industry has evolved over time.

This is the story about Rudi Gernreich, a Viennese Jewish boy who escaped the Nazis and found himself in America , about a visionary boy and a great designer who revolutionized swimwear in 60s.

“Embroidery was the love of writing your dreams with a needle, with a pearl, with anything that could enchant and bring tenderly to life a décor, an ambiance, a souvenir.” François Lesage

Ormond Gigli, longtime photographer for TIME, LIFE, Paris Match and others, snapped everything from farmers to movie stars in his decades long career. But his most famous image, “Girls in the Windows” — taken on New York’s East 58th Street in 1960 – was made on a whim.