Nicola Formichetti + Lady Gaga = Magic

Art Direction: Nicola Formichetti, Photos: Nobuyoshi Araki, In: Vogue Hommes Japan

LOVES: Ditto.

INSPIRED BY: not everyday i fall in love.

Images like this just astound me! How I wish I was a photographer sometimes... the movement, lighting and colour is perfection to me. Entitled White Light White Heat and shot for Numero by Dusan Relijin. 

amazing amazing

Styling by Camilla Nickerson for Vogue Italia. Perfect imagery.

not just because!

I love the lighting and tone of this shoot, as well as the masculine/feminine nature of Nicola Formichetti's styling- I actually think that the flower on the hat, (as repetitive as it is) makes this editorial that much more special for Japan's Commons & Sense magazine. Devine. Nicola is creative director of Dazed&Confused and he can also be credited for that cover!

Vintage Moss

Oh how I adore thee! Madonna, Kate... I am so in awe of the past.

Below is my absolute fave, gotta love big hair.

Kate Moss for Glamour France June 1992 (I was seven!) courtesy of foto-decadent.

in bad taste.

Okay, so the idea of this blog was to give a background to the development of my magazine, which includes of course the inspirations for different things! And so, this isn't the inspiration for the concept I had necessarily, but I came across it and thought it was in the same vein. The shoot I want to do is based on style blogs such as The Sartorialist and Facehunter, who capture streetstyle at its best. Steven Meisel is a really great photographer, but I am not keen on this shoot he did for Vogue Italia in 2005, entitled Hollywood Style. Based on paparazzi shots of the street style of celebs, I think they forgot to make it ironic in the way that the fashion is actually good. I get the 'humour', but it's still a fash mag, no!? But that is my humble opinion...

pretty pictures!

FOLIE DOUCE by DAVID SIMS, M.A SAUVE, starring MISSY RAYDER

*insert several variations of praise

Image from Preen Magazine

Courtesy of Style Bubble, http://stylebubble.typepad.com/

The Knight.

I'm actually rather surprised that I am in my third month of blogging and this is my first Nick Knight posting! So without further pause, enjoy.

Originally from Vogue UK November 2008

Aptly entitled, "Fantastic Fashion Fantasy"

Designs by Galliano, Viktor & Rolf, McQueen, Comme Des Garcon, Chalayan, Dior, Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Gareth Pugh and Thierry Mugler

Images taken from www.fashion-ation.net/ System/Assets/hb1.jpg

Girls on Trains

Photography by Steven Meisel:

I smiled when I came across this editorial... I have been pitching a "Girls on Trains" beauty shoot earlier this week to those I am working with, and like many of my ideas, I was met with curious frowns. Well check it out, even legendary Meisel has got his hands dirty on public transport! =)

The shoot I want to to is more young and playful though, the girls here are evidently not impressed at being on the underground!

A Burst of Bright!

I have been googling about trying to find images that would communicate to you the visions of delight bounding about in my head. I want each picture to be huge colourful double page spreads that appear to 'burst off the page'. (The apostrophes are because I seem to have said 'burst of the page' so often when describing the kind of shoots I want to do, it somehow warrants it... okay I may not make much sense!?)

I'm so glad that florals have taken such an un-girly, clash-me-if-you-can route for another season! These, (the first catwalk images I have posted, not sure if it suits the blog?) are Erdem Fall '09 RTW.

So, the visions of delight that I mentioned? Well I found them realised here bySølve Sundsbø entitled 'Bloom' for V magazine. Utter perfection.

Portrait of a City

A reader asked where this image came from in a previous post... it is from Vogue Nippon, September 2008, photographed by Mario Sorrenti. Here is some more of the editorial!

You can view even more at:

http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent/1880638.html#cutid1