Tilda Swinton’s Surreal Fashion Fantasy

Tim Walker and actress Tilda Swinton created a series of phantasmagorias inspired by artists Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and other muses and collaborators of English eccentric, poet, and surrealist collector Edward James.

Cover of W magazine. Modern Beauty issue. May 2013

Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci dress; Cornelia James gloves

Vera Wang Collection dress; Vicki Beamon lips and fingertips; Cornelia James gloves

Acne Studios gown

Maison Martin Margiela dress and gloves

Rick Owens jacket and dress

Ann Demeulemeester dress; Cornelia James gloves

Balmain jacket; Max Mara jacket; Swinton’s own Olivier Saillard gloves

Rochas dress; National Theatre Costume Hire underskirt; Cornelia James gloves; Céline pumps

Angels the Costumiers cape; Gucci gown; Vicki Beamon mask; Cornelia James gloves

Azzedine Alaïa top, skirt, and shoes; Emilio Cavallini bodysuit; Alexander McQueen headpiece

Louis Vuitton dress and shoes; Cornelia James gloves; Emilio Cavallini tights

Haider Ackermann shirt and trousers

Mary Katrantzou dress; Cornelia James gloves

Giorgio Armani blouse, skirt, and pants; Haider Ackermann dress; Ann Demeulemeester top; Cornelia James gloves; Prada gaiters and socks

Francesco Scognamiglio dress

Mar 30

Venus in Furs Photographed by Steven Meisel

Magazine: Vogue Italia
Issue: November 2010
Title: Venus in Furs
Models: Alla Kostromichova, Andrej Pejic, Freja Beha Erichsen, Iselin Steiro, Iris Strubegger, Michael Tintiuc & Tomek Szczukiecki

Jul 28

A Life in the Theatre

‘All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.’

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. Look and listen. See the flowers, how they ray their redness, whiteness, silverness and blue.

We act different parts; but are the same.

Books are the mirrors of the soul

She liked to leave a theatre knowing exactly what was meant…

They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer. Mrs. Swithin stopped by the great picture of Venice–school of Canaletto. Possibly in the hood of the gondola there was a little figure–a woman, veiled; or a man?

Kate Moss photographed by Bruce Weber and styled by Joe McKenna. Vogue Italia. October 1996.

Then the curtain rose. They spoke.

Virginia Woolf

“Between the Acts”

Feb 13

Come Together

The Beatles crossing Abbey Road from another angle

Fragment of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover. Although Let it Be was released afterwards, Abbey Road was actually the last album recorded by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

The Fab Four taking a break. The album opener Come Together was a Lennon contribution. The chorus was inspired by a song Lennon originally wrote for Timothy Leary’s campaign for governor of California titled Let’s Get It Together.

English tailor Tommy Nutter designed the suits worn by John, Ringo and Paul.

In one of the firsts outtakes they were walking in the opposite side of the street

That August 8^th 1969 only six shots were taken for the cover of the album

The front cover design, a photograph of the group traversing a zebra crossing, was based on sketched ideas by McCartney and taken outside EMI Studios on Abbey Road. At around 11:30 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo whilst he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up the traffic