FASHION Magazine

Photographer Irving Penn died yesterday in his New York City apartment at the age of 92. Penn began working with Vogue in 1943 and became famous for his elegant, spare fashion images, including many of his wife, model Lisa Fonssagrives, whom he married in 1950. Designer Issey Miyake and cosmetics brand Clinique were long-time advertising clients of Penn’s and for the later he created revolutionary campaigns that focused on the products, rather than models.

Not everyone with a brush can paint a picture, and certainly not everyone with a camera can take a photo. As Charlotte mused in Lost in Translation: “I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses… taking dumb pictures of your feet.” The […]

The post Shelf life: The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009 appeared first on FASHION Magazine.

Our fashion department has interns so bang-on stylish, they make Whitney Port look like an American Eagle greeter. One of these is my lovely friend Sarah Kosloff, who’s spent the last four months toiling behind the magic of editorial shoots. Though her days here are numbered, her talents are not. So, on Sarah Kosloff’s final day as a FASHION intern, I’d like to reveal one of her recent creative endeavours—a series of images she created for Show|OFF at UPC Boutique (128 1/2 Cumberland St., 416-929-9209, upcboutique.com).

Last night’s party at the Bloor Street Holt Renfrew had all the makings of your prototypical Toronto fashion shindig. Leesa Butler? Check. Greta Constantine? Check. Canapes and Peroni? Check and check. The big difference was the presence of one Scott Schuman, better known to you as the photog behind the street fashion blog, The Sartorialist.

Girls on film: Canadian model Coco Rocha, in head-to-toe Greta Constantine (fall, of course), sent flash bulbs into a frenzy on King Street on Thursday night when she arrived at the Women X Women party, held at the future home of the Fashion House condos. (One photographer even joked with the new redhead that she was looking better than Ms. Jolie.)

Lately, fashion spreads in magazines have been boring me half to death (except this one!). While I’ll always love the originality that old favorites like Bob Richardson still display, I’m getting tired of photographers who produce slick images that focus on only a single aspect of a subject. I just want fashion photography to tell me a story, not sell me some pants. That’s why I’m half obsessed and completely amazed by the fairy-tales and myths that my favourite up-and-coming Island photographer is able to create and portray in a single image.