Karen Elson for 90s Chanel ads.
Being red-headed is as good as having neon hair.
Karen Elson for 90s Chanel ads.
Being red-headed is as good as having neon hair.
David James is not exactly the name you would first associate with Prada campaigns. But the creative director of AnOther and AnOtherMan is the brains behind almost every Prada campaign since 1997, the art direction force behind one of the most visually unforgettable ads of all time. His works, spanning from 1998 to 2010 can be viewed at Out of Print!, an online exhibition that is up until May.
Prada SS 97
Photographer: Glen Luchford Stylist: Alex White
"All of the ideas were inspired by film and the production was nothing short of epic! Glen preferred shooting at either dawn or just before dusk, which meant that we could only do one to two shots a day! There's no digital manipulation in these images. Everything you see was done in-camera."
Prada FW 97
Photographer: Glen Luchford Stylist: Alex White
"The fall/winter campaign continues with the same approach from the previous season in that we used the same model but we developed the narrative, mood and atmosphere. In one of the shots the model is holding a shoe, but it actually looks like a gun."
Prada SS 98
Photographer: Glen Luchford Stylist: Alex White
"It was 1998 and we were thinking about what the next century might look like."
Prada Menswear SS 99
Photographer: Norbert Schoerner Stylist: David Bradshaw
"The portacabins are very modern but impersonal, like a prison or office. The character we created was very nervous and and anxious and we wanted an environment that would emphasize his state of mind."
Prada SS 2000
Photographer: Robert Wyatt Stylist: Lucy Ewing
"We came up with the idea of making the campaign look like a bourgeois television drama but it ended up looking like a stage play."
Prada SS 01
Photographer: Cedric Buchet Stylist: Alister Mackie
This still remains my favourite ad campaign of all time. I remember seeing this campaign some time back when I was flipping through my aunt's old fashion magazine, and was struck by the seemingly awkwardness of the models and the whole image.
"The shots weren't captured at random, they were very carefully set up. We wanted them to appear spontaneous and arbitrary, but the models and the props were actually painstakingly arranged in a very static way. That's why it looks like a frozen world. The compositions took a long time to perfect. It took us four weeks to shoot!"
Prada FW 02
Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Lori Goldstein
"The pictures reference female icons from the history of fashion, film, art and literature."
Prada SS 04
Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: David Bradshaw
"The idea of the 'painted' campaign was inspired by the prints and the tie-dyeing used in the collection. When you look at the images closely, you can see that there are brush marks."
Prada SS 05
Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: David Bradshaw
"I found a book on exotic birds that became the inspiration for the campaign."
Prada FW 07
Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Prada in-house
"We started off shooting the groups in camera, to work out the compositions, and then we re-shot each model separately and pieced the shot back together."
Prada SS 09
Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Prada in-house
"The reference for this campaign was Greek and Roman sculptural reliefs, the kind you find on pediments on Roman architecture.While we were shooting, Steven asked the models to push and shove each other as they moved across the set."
"We posed the boys as if they were looking at the sculptural forms we had created in the other campaign." This was no doubt my favourite menswear campaign.
I just fell in love with the year 2002. Now I'm regretting that I didn't know about fashion 8 years ago, I didn't know about Vogue in 2002, nor that I knew what Balenciaga was when I was 7 years old. It all happened when the very bored me was blog-surfing during Math class in school today and came across RJ's blog. There they were, these amazing photos of Vogue Paris and Balenciaga advertisements that were published in 2002. You probably won't believe this but I practically looked like this when I saw them.
And the best thing was that my teacher gave me a weird eye because all she saw was me looking like a retard staring into my pencil-box (which was hiding my iPod touch) which I use to connect to the web. I am convinced that she now thinks that I'm dumb, weird and retarded now. Anyways...
Gosh, this's got to be the most amazing cover ever by Vogue Paris, published in October 2002. Anyone wants to sell one to me?
Balenciaga Campaign for Spring Summer 2002. Why aren't today's campaigns like this? Did the person who proposed this campaign died or something, then why are the Spring Summer 2010 campaigns as crappy as the weirdo who lives across the street from you.
Balenciaga Spring Summer 2002 campaign. LOVES. And just realised that Balenciaga has got amazing campaigns up until this Spring.
Maybe it's time to write a letter to Miss Roitfeld.
Pictures via RJ and TheFashionSpot
“I wanted to highlight our reality and our lifestyle, which is reflected in our unique product and in the artisanal aspect. This campaign really reflects the mood I’m in these days, even from a design stance.” The campaign features Angela Missoni, her parents, her children Margherita, Teresa and Francesco, as well as her brother Vittorio Missoni’s children, Ottavio Junior, Marco and Giacomo.
Ottavo Junior and Marco Missoni
Ottavio and Margherita Missoni, Angela and Marco Missoni
Francesco Missoni, Giacomo and Marco Missoni
Margherita Missoni and Missoni founders, Rosita and Ottavio; Francesco Missoni
Surprise, Surprise. This is the new ad campaign for Missoni Spring 2010 by Juergen Teller. Well, I was a little shocked at first, but then again, my first reaction was that I just scrolled past this campaign, not realizing that it was by Missoni until I realised that the repetitive stripey prints looked really familiar.
My favorite ad campaigns this season were more on the simpler side (see Chloe and Prada) but this campaign hit me just in the right spot of my brain that registered all the pretty things I see in life. Now, just where do I start? How about the awesomest sofa done in signature Missoni wavy prints in the craziest of colours. (My mind is going to explode, I NEED THAT SOFA.) I bet that they even have matching carpets and towels. No models whatsoever, but in place are the Missoni family, of all shapes and sizes. What makes it even more appealing is that they are not like the boring, cliched family photos where everyone is in suits and dresses, against boring (and the ugliest) blue-greenish backdrops or fireplaces. You see the Missoni family just before dinner, waiting for dinner while reading the papers, doing candid shots -in other words, in their true self except wearing coats and cardigans that cost a few hundred bucks (unless they actually have wardrobes full of Missoni knits. AWESOME).
The candidness of the campaign, the freshness of it, the whole family bond/kinship thing is just perfect. At least for me and not some who said this looked as though they came out from a random lame family photo album.
Dear Miss Philo,
How could you do this to me? You had me so excited when you decided to make a return to fashion. And then you did one of the best shows this Spring, sending down models in your super chic military wear. And despite how much I hated the military trend, I'm glad that you didn't did straight-in-your-face Balmain military uniforms. You practically kicked Decarnin in the ass (and groin) when you sent fine leather shirts, pique shirting, military jackets in what was a simple but amazing color palette down the runway. You showed who was boss. The fashion world was excited to have you back. Instantly, I knew you would be conquering the fashion world in no time at all, yet again.
Just as you raised my expectations and hopes so high, that you would produce an equally amazing Spring Campaign, Miss Philo (I can't believe I'm saying this), you disappointed me with this substandard campaign of yours. I understand your view of being minimalistic for this collection but you just can't simply get 4 headless models (I have a strange feeling they were mannequins), use 4 photos which looked like it was taken in less than 5 minutes, book two pages of ads in all major fashion magazines and simply call it your campaign. You just can't. I'm truly disappointed. Oh, Miss Philo......
From,
TheClackers
