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Monday, February 1, 2010

La Vie Romantique

4:20 PM Mathea No comments

Just a few recent things I've found that I've enjoyed:

The Woman Management Blog is a blog that has a lot of great postings on editorials, photography and fashion. A really great place to see great work and read inspired thoughts.

This girl (below) has a cute blog about fashion, food, and little musings that helped me pass some time. I found her on lookbook . Just a quick blog to scroll through and she has some great ideas for designing such as collecting old mirrors from antique stores and arranging them on a wall.

I absolutely love this video. Greg Kadel is an amazing fashion and celebrity photographer and is one of the photographers I really look up to and am inspired by. You can check out his website here: http://www.gregkadelstudios.com/. What I love about his website is that it is so organized. You can choose a publication and look at some sample images he has taken from that publication. It is so annoying to find a photographer whose work you love and then can't find any of your favorite images on their website because it is unorganized and chaotic.

As many of you know I have my own flickr site (even though I haven't updated in a while), and I use flickr to look for new photographers and find inspiration for shoots and images. Its a great site to network and just to search for great images of just about anything.

This post is about a photographer that I came across a while ago actually and I recently revisited her work. I decided I had to tell other people about her. Her images are so beautiful and she can connect with her subjects in a way that is so hard to come by (especially for such a young photographer!). You can see her flickr page here. I wouldn't be surprised if I found her images in Teen Vogue and in fact, I think a lot of her photos are better than some of the work being featured in the magazine. Teen Vogue has amazing editorials of young stars and models and the way Nirrimi works with her models makes them appear as if they are beyond their teens. It is exactly the kind of fashion photography that is featured in Teen Vogue.

Her work has inspired me and is so beautiful to look at. I love her tones, the poses, and the styling. This is exactly the kind of fashion photography I want to be involved in and she makes me excited and passionate about this kind of work. You can check out her website here.

All images were taken by Nirrimi.

One Size Fits All and the V Magazine Size Issue

7:34 PM Mathea No comments

One of the magazines I subscribe to is V Magazine and I just received the size issue. I loved all the shoots with plus size models, they wore the garments beautifully and the photography was exceptional. Overall, I would definitely go online and check out some of the shoots or pick up a copy in borders or wherever else V Magazine is sold locally. What I really hated about the "size issue" is that there needs to be a special issue dedicated to plus size models in order to feature them in these magazines. I most definitely understand the use of tall and thin models in the fashion industry, however it is up to the fashion industry to explore new shoots, and ways of looking at clothes and people and I think it is sad that the only chance that consumers have to see "normal" looking women is when there is a specific issue dedicated to them. I don't mean to imply that we should see plus size models in every shoot in every magazine but I loved what V Magazine did in my favorite shoot in the issue One Size Fits All (photographed by Terry Richardson) and I think it is a shoot that I wouldn't be surprised to see in a "normal size" issue.

I thought the concept was innovative and progressive to feature the same clothes on both an industry standard model and a plus size model. It had a great message and the images were beautiful studio images. In the second image down, I would say that I prefer the way that the plus size model looks. The model Crystal Renn has been the center of a lot of media stories in the past couple months because of her book Hungry which described her battle with Anorexia in the fashion industry and how she overcame the pressure to find herself and become a plus size model. I hope that we see more shoots like this in the future.

Check out the website for V Magazine:

http://www.vmagazine.com/index.php

This is the caption for the shoot:

IF IT'S BRIGHT ENOUGH, TIGHT ENOUGH, OR EYE-POPPINGLY PRINTED ENOUGH, ODDS ARE IT'LL WORK ON ANY FIGURE. CRYSTAL RENN, MODEL AND AUTHOR OF HUNGRY, AND JACQUELYN JABLONSKI, SPRING'S NEW STAR, SHOW OFF THE SEASON'S MOST SIZZLING LOOKS

Photography Terry Richardson

Anja Rubik and Model Inspiration

1:00 PM Mathea 1 comment

Alright I realize its been a little while since I made a post about photography. I was looking for a model I saw in an incredible editorial shoot and though my searches I came across the website for the model Anja Rubik. I don't come across too many websites for models with their images on it but I was really impressed with her site.

http://www.anjarubik.com/content/home.php?p=1

She is a very well known model and is constantly in editorials in the top magazines and walks all the important runway shows. I think its absolutely incredible how versatile these models can be. The last 4 images I found on this site below. You can search models and designers and there is an extensive collection of images for each person. I find that a great source of inspiration for me is to look at these kinds of sites for famous models because they are photographed by the top photographers so the shoots they are in are incredibly lit and there is so much talent involved in the production of these shoots:

http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Anja_Rubik/

All of these images are of Anja Rubik:

photo cred: style.com

I love how she is so feminine and fierce in the first and last image. The second image she is so soft and classically beautiful. In the third image she is beautifully androgynous. So much talent:

Zink Magazine

6:20 PM Mathea No comments

Z!nk is one of my favorite magazines for photography. Generally I never read magazines. I buy or subscribe to magazines for the images and design layout and then cut out images I like and take ideas from them for inspiration. The fashion editorials that z!nk runs are always new and innovative. I feel like I am seeing an image for the first time, rather than one I have seen copied a million times over which is refreshing. In addition, their product photography is incredible. Product photography is something I never pay attention to but it is a big part of the magazine and it is all completely flawless. I see the product photography more as an art form in Z!nk than I do anywhere else. So if you are in a bookstore and are looking around I would recommend picking up a copy and just looking at the pictures and the layout of the magazine.

http://www.zinkmag.com/