While there were plenty of shows featuring outlandish, costume inspired hair and makeup during Fashion Week, the remaining designers had wisely refrained from checking their sanity at the door. Among these designers there was a unifying theme: keeping it simple. The applications were basic, the hues infinitely wearable and the looks favoring nature over product overload.

Eyes were the location of most of the little color used. Fall’s classic smoky eyes- created with a smudged combination of black liner and shadow- gets to live on in Spring where it is paired with nude lips and bare skin. It will be sharing the evening makeup stage with its Spring modification that replaces the black with violet colored liner matched to lilac shadow. Monochromatic is the rule for done up eyes with gold liner and bronze shadow also being a favorite at the fashion shows. To accommodate these simplistic looks, eyebrows were kept full and natural.

Lips rarely bore a visible color of any kind with shows like BCBG sending models out with nude or completely bare mouths. The only lip color to have any popularity at fashion week was scarlet, utilized in a lip stain paired with nearly nude eyes and cheeks bearing the slightest traces of bronzer. With that exception, bronzer has taken a backseat for this season.

Skin was left as bare as possible with super light foundation and spot concealer being the preferred products if any had to be used. Blush, like bronzer, was virtually unseen.

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Juergen Teller fashion work is everywhere: i-D, Purple, W, Dazed & Confused, all the Vogues. He’s done major ad campaigns for Comme des Garçons, Marc Jacobs, Stüssy and Helmut Lang. There are the album covers for Elastica, Elton John, and Hole, and at last count, three books of his photography work were in stores, with another on the way.

Juergen Teller recently expressed his view on the fashion image industry in an interview for New York Magazine:

“Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy,” Teller says, “which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.”

While I somewhat assert with Tellers statement that most fashion photographs look over-edited, the guy started to loose his credibility to me with above, since his homophobia becomes apparent more than once throughout his interview.

I don’t even get why he thinks his pictures are so particularly amazing. Looking at his work de definitely does not come across as elite of fashion photography. He was in the right place at the right time for the right amount of time and worked with the right people to be as influential.

Juergen Teller himself helped create the “anorexic” female body ideal and continues to do so, it’s still in Vogue with his name on it. Juergen practically invented sadist fashion photography, he is a poster boy for male accomplish without implants or a lick of makeup.

Juergen Teller is yet another morally bankrupt “contemporary artist” who, like so many others, thrives on the wealth and attention that magazines bestow upon him. Saying that it is nice to see work like this sometimes and bitch about it.

Represented By: Lehmann Maupin
Via: New York Times and New York Magazine

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Under the new lead, Ferruccio Pozzoni, Valentino is going after a young clientele interested in dressing up. And his latest collection was nothing if not dressy like the checked jean jacket over a shawl-collared, double-breasted waistcoat and a stock-tied shirt.

But if Valentino himself increasingly leaving his focal pieces with jeans and T-shirts and go the way of cream canvas cotton suit as a casual new version of evening wear.

As a side note Valentino made his big screen debut in Venice in August as the new documentary film charting his career, Valentino: The Last Emperor, enjoyed its premiere. Dubed “King of Couture” - followed by a film crew headed up by director Matt Tyrnauer, a writer for Vanity Fair between June 2005 and July 2007. This follows on the heels of the Karl Lagerfeld documentary, Lagerfeld Confidential as well as the Marc Jacobs film, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton.

Website: Valentino

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