Crash Magazine’s “Grey Gardens” doubles as a spread and a lookbook for Kenzo’s Fall/Winter 2009 collection. Photographed by Alexandra Catier, this spread features models Elsa Sylvan and Adrien Sahores and has a clever inspiration-board vibe.

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As anyone who has ever worked behind the scenes at a major Fashion Magazine (or seen the September Issue) will tell you, there is a fine line between Art and Design, and the best designers always surround themselves with peerless artistic talent. Jewelry Designer and Sculptor Perry Gargano and Social Entrepreneur Marcy Clark became inspired to create an editorial spread that would be released online only and that would celebrate new media and bold New York women. 

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Claudia Schiffer, Eva Herzigova and Helena Christensen nude in the Winter 2010 issue of i-D magazine.

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It’s not like model Tanya Dziahileva needs any help being gorgeous, but the photographic eye of Hans Feurer sure doesn’t hurt! Consider i-D Magazine’s spread “One Day I’ll Ride A Big White Horse And Wear A Gown And Crowns Of Course” more of a beauty spread than a fashion spread, but regardless, it’s awesome!

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Freja Beha Erichsen was all over the runways during Fall 2009 Fashion Week, and dragging the Danish beauty back into the limelight is photographer Boo George’s recent spread for Twin Magazine. Loving the dirty, boyish biker look on Beha Erichsen!

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I don’t think the spread’s name is terribly fitting, but I love the expired film look of Ellen Rogers’ spread for i-D’s December 2009 issue!

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Our newest contributing editor, Navo Lope, is a  globe-trotting, published photographer/artist/nomad. Here he shares his thoughts, musings, and rumblings about the things he’s passionate about – photography, films, flawed characters and life’s work in progress. View his work here. Check out his blog here.

“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” - Albert Einstein’s letter to Otto Juliusburger

I still don’t have a Twitter. I joined Facebook earlier this year, after being constantly bombarded by the electronic Facebook invites my college mates from art school, I finally gave in. Sometimes, updating status, replying to messages, wall tags and photo comments are something I do to keep me company while retouching some of the images I took in Photoshop, in between photo shoots, waiting for my flight, waiting for my luggage, waiting for a friend in a coffee shop, just finished reading a book or done my research for my novel, Facebook somehow sneaked in to my routines, should I be worried? For all my growing readers and followers out there, I appreciate your emails and support, I  attended a worldwide blogger’s 2-day conference over the weekend to upgrade myself and literally everyone (about 200 bloggers, web developers, writers, coders) has a Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, together with their website and other contact details in their business cards or their blogs, I feel prehistoric, the oldest 28-year-old in the world who don’t Twit and a Facebook amateur compared to my niece who have used Facebook and Twitter since birth, now I’m worried.

My favorite feature in Facebook is the “top five” list of everything you can think of, top five movies, top five sandwiches, top five Britney song, top five Sarah Palin books (although she has only one, hopefully), of course I don’t want to be left out by the other cool kids, so I made a couple of list of my own, like the hit “Top 5 Famous Dead People I Would Like To Invite For Dinner”– James Dean, Charles Darwin, Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler, and Albert Einstein (I’m definitely sure 3 of them are vegetarian and I definitely got a lot of fb comments for that), and after browsing The New York Magazine in LAX, Aug 16, ‘09 interview of the famed photographer Annie Leibovitz (59 yrs. old), “Photography is not something you retire from, Photographers live to a very old age and work until the end.” (Lartigue lived to be 92, Steichen 93, and Cartier-Bresson 94.)  “Irving Penn is going to be 92 next month, and he’s still working.” Leibovitz said. I quickly made another “top 5? last September 13 at 5:53 am (it’s still somewhere on my facebook wall), “The World’s Oldest Living Iconic Photographers” where Mr. Irving Penn topped the list at 92, shortly after a month (October 7),  Ms. Lillian Bassman (92) replaced him at the top 5.

It’s a youth-obsessed industry, working fashion model’s age brackets from 14 to 21 and less than 1% of them work up to their 40’s (Claudia Schiffer 39, Christy Turlington 40, Naomi Campbell 39, and Kate Moss 35), but great photographers get to last twice or more than any great supermodel’s career in a lifetime which is fascinating and inspiring for a “late twenties” photographer like me, their careers longevity and their resilience are something that a lot of “top” fashion photographers in their 30s or 40s at the moment can only dream of. It would be interesting to know if any of the five legendary living lensmen and women Twits or have Facebook “top fives” of their own. Two caucasian women, three caucasian men, two immigrants, three american-born, one photojournalist, one portrait photographer, two fashion/celebrity photographers, one fashion/art photographer, three have started with Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, and all based in the east coast, four in new york, one in miami, here are the updated list of “The World’s Oldest Living Iconic Photographers” still working today.

Lillian Bassman (92)

A painter and an American fashion photographer, born in Brooklyn in (1917) to a jewish immigrant parents from Russia in 1905.

Bassman’s work as a fashion photographer started at Junior Bazaar (1940s) and Harper’s Bazaar (1950 -1965), by the 70s she abandoned fashion photography to work on her own photo projects, resulting to 40 years of life’s work (films and prints) thrashed, some salvaged hundred images re-appeared and her work was re-appreciated in the 90s. Her photography style is the high contrast, grainy finish, and geometric camera angles of her subjects.

In an industry ruled by “White Caucasian Men (gay or straight)”**, Bassman is now one of the last two “great” women standing. And that is still an understatement for me.

**a future article you’ll find here in Dangerously Naive.

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Robert Frank (84)

An important American art/photojournalist, born in Zurich, Switzerland (1924) to a wealthy Jewish family.

Mr. Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947 and like Ms. Bassman started as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. He travelled to South America and Europe after the brief stint with the magazine, and like Ms. Bassman worked on his more personal works, and came back in the 1950’s to NYC for a group exhibition in MOMA and then moved to Paris. His frustrations with the control of the editors over his work colored his fashion magazine experience, nonetheless he moved back to New York, 3 years after the exhibition and worked as a freelance photojournalist and completely abandoning fashion photography altogether.

In 1958, “The Americans” was published, his widely celebrated photographic book cemented his position in the history of American photography.

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Patrick Demarchelier (65)

A French fashion photographer, born in 1943 to a modest family and started as a wedding photographer at the age of seventeen.

Like Mr. Frank, Mr. Demarchelier migrated to New York (1975), Elle, Marie Claire and 20 Ans Magazine was the first stints he had as a fashion photographer after working as a freelance photographer/ assistants to such greats as Cartier-Bresson. He later worked for Harper’s Bazaar (like Mr. Frank and Ms. Bassman) and Vogue (1992-present). Demarchelier also is behind several blue chip campaigns including Dior, Louis Vuitton, Celine, TAG Heuer, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Lacoste, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, and became a household name after the 2006’s Meryl Streep film The Devil Wears Prada with the lines- “Did Demarchelier confirm?”, and “I have Patrick!”.

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Bruce Weber (63)

An American fashion/celebrity photographer, born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (1946).

Mr. Weber’s first fashion photography work appeared in GQ magazine in the late 1970’s, shot Bloomingdales catalogs in 1978, Calvin Klein Campaigns in the late 1980s to early 1990s, introducing him to the American households. His photograph of supermalemodel Marcus Schenkenberg nude in the shower, catapulted him to celebrity status. Then later working with fellow celebrities like him, Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Chet Baker, Chris Isaak, Harry Connick Jr., Jackson Browne and virtually all the stars in the hollywood’s walk of fame, the dead and the living. Today, he is behind the countless ad campaigns such as Calvin Klein, Pirelli, Revlon, Gianni Versace, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch and unlike Mr. Robert Frank, Mr. Weber embraced the fashion industry and worked with virtually all the top fashion and celebrity magazines existing in the world today.

Mr. Weber’s work are mostly in black and white and homoerotic. (A House is Not a Home and Bear Pond to name a few of his numerous homoerotic photobooks).

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Annie Leibovitz (59)

An American portrait photographer, born in Waterbury, Connecticut (1949) to a modern dance instructor mother, and a lieutenant colonel father (US Air Force).

She took her first pictures in the Philippines while studying college, and to be with her family, after her father was stationed there during the Vietnam war. Ms. Leibovitz returned to the US in 1970 and started a career as a staff photogrpaher for Rolling Stone magazine, then in 1973 became its chief photographer (for 10 years) and helped defined the look of the magazine with her celebrity portraits of Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and like Mr. Weber the rest of the names in Hollywood’s the walk of fame and every celebrity that are in the headlines today, from President Obama to Miley Cyrus (for Vanity Fair Magazine).

Ms. Leibovitz’s signature style is the close collaboration to her subjects and on her earlier works are have a more of orange/yellow hue tint to the present work’s blue-ish purple hue.

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Our newest contributing editor, Navo Lope, is a  globe-trotting, published photographer/artist/nomad. Here he shares his thoughts, musings, and rumblings about the things he’s passionate about – photography, films, flawed characters and life’s work in progress. View his work here. Check out his blog here.

VIDEO: We’ve got your first look of Natalie Portman’s photo shoot with V Magazine. The beautiful movie star sat for Mario Testino in a London studio last month, looking a little bit rockabilly and a little bit Elvis in couture threads courtesy of stylist Clare Richardson.

I <3 Fake is one of my favorite digital magazine’s on the web, and it’s spreads like this one that are the reason for my love. This one was shot by the amazing Philipp Mueller and styled by the talented Alexandra Kruse.

I’m assuming the only reasons she’s being shot by Elle Magazine is cause we’re nearing Thanksgiving and the “gobble, gobble, gobbles” in her song “It’s This One Thing” had Joe Zee thinking turkey…

Hedi Slimane shoots a young Natalia Vodianova.

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Real-life couple Sasha Knezevic and Anja Rubik star in this editorial by Camilla Akrans in the current Fall/Winter 09 issue of Man About Town.

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Anya Kazakova was shot by Yasunari Kikuma for D&C Japan December 09.

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Courtney Love smokes, squats, and bares it all!

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Leighton Meester attempts being sexy in kinky lingerie for GQ Mag.

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A bit of nudity in this spread for Vogue Italy, starring fave model Abbey Lee Kershaw.

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Emmy Rossum wears Jason Wu on the cover of 2 Magazine. Tons of great pics of her after the jump.

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Titled ‘Gentlemen of Leisure,’ this spread was inspired by icons like the Duke of Windsor, Rudolph Valentino, Gary Cooper, and Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg.

Styling: JACOB K

Models: Baptiste Giabiconi, Iris Strubegger, Oriol Elcacho

Clothing by Dolce & Gabbana, Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Versace, Comme Des Garcons Homme Plus, Yves Saint Laurent, Dries Van Noten, etc.

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Mariacarla Boscono was shot by fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø and styled by Anastasia Barbieri. Mariacarla wears dresses by Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Jil Sander, Valentino, D&G, Chanel, and Jean Paul Gaultier.

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All I can say is WOW!

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Photographer David Roemer shows us a sexier side of Chanel Iman.

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Nothing puts a smile on my face like the goofy charm of a child, but throw some fabulous fashion in there and I’m bound to be grinning for hours on end. Ryan McGinley’s “We Don’t Need No Education” for Purple Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2009 edition puts some adorable kids and innovative designers in the spotlight…love it!

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Before Gaga, there was Gisele, pantless for the August 2000 issue of Numéro, shot by Patrick Demarchelier.

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As always, Lara Stone looks stunning in this spread for Vogue Italia.

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Photographed by Mario Testino and styled by fashion editor Tonne Goodman, Karlie Kloss gets dirty on the farm in clothes by Marni, Chloé, Yves Saint Laurent, Isaac Mizrahi, Balenciaga, Donna Karan, Paul Smith and A.P.C.

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A great spread inspired by the paintings of Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka for the Spanish Magazine AR.

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This is the reason I believe in plastic surgery!

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I’m in love with that Alexander Wang vest. Absolutely in love. Anyone know who this model is?

The latest spread for RUSSH Australia shot by Chadwick Tyler..on my way to Borders to pick it up now!

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