Anna de Rijk Overlooks Paris in Fur & Thigh Highs

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

And in lots of sheer Louis Vuitton from the Fall 2011 collection. Anna de Rijk plays well the role of sexy hotel room mistress in bodysuits and thigh highs, throwing suggestive stares atop a luxurious fur throw for the latest issue of Antidote. As a tribute to the late great Helmut Newton, photographer Giampaolo Sgura evokes the mood of Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, grand dining table aside. Styled in stilettos and diamonds by Geraldine Saglio, a strong imagination isn’t necessary for this fantasy.

10 Fashion Stars of the 17th Annual Out 100

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Andrej Pejic gets wrapped up in Nastassja Kinski. Brad Goreski channels Yves Saint Laurent. And Nicola Formichetti holds up two pork shanks. Is this just another day in the glamorous life? Yes, but it’s also Out Magazine‘s homage to some of the fashion industry’s best and gayest. For their 17th Annual Out 100 list, the mag enlisted the talents of Gavin Bond to create portraits inspired by iconic photos of the past. Mining the catalogs of Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Helmut Newton, among others, Bond’s photos serve a fitting tribute to the 100 queens, trannies, lesbians, and other assorted queers that showed that if things don’t necessarily get better, they at least get fabulous. 

INDIE REWIND: The Greatest Supermodels of the 60s

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

From Twiggy and her doe eyes to Veruschka and her neverending gams, these girls of the 60s originally defined what it meant to be a “supermodel.”

Bookclubbin’: Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Marisa Berenson has led the kind of charmed, impossibly chic and devastatingly fashionable life that is all but impossible to replicate today.  If only because charm, chicness and style are all but impossible to find today. Having lived her entire life in front of the camera — Marisa’s christening portrait appeared in Vogue and she covered Elle magazine with sister Berinthia “Berry” Berenson when she was five – guest editor and longtime friend Steven Meisel collected some of Berenson’s most iconic photographs, as well as personal pics of friends and families, in Rizzoli‘s goregous new tome, Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures (2011). 

Where There’s Le Smoking, There’s Bound to Be Fire

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Along with the bikini, the wrap-dress and the tranny heel, Le Smoking is the greatest sartorial invention of the past 50 years. And it would behoove every woman to have one in her repertoire. Created by Yves Saint Laurent in 1966, Le Smoking forever changed the women dressed by simply giving them a tux all their own. It was further immortalized by a series of photos by Helmut Newton in 1975 and when Bianca Jagger made it her signature in the heyday of 54. Now 400 years later the trend is still going strong.

10 Exhibits to See Now That Savage Beauty Has Closed

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

A noticeable cloud has fallen over Manhattan. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, the critically-acclaimed and commercially record-breaking retrospective on the late designer, hath closed. What to do?! Where to go?! Why go on?! But before you stab yourself in the face with an armadillo heel, check out these five fashion-related museum exhibits in and around New York. Sure, it may not fill the McQueen-sized hole in your heart, but at least you’ll have the memories of the Met. Unless you missed the exhibit, in which case just end your misery now.

The Gospel According to Sozzani

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Vogue Italia‘s Editor-in-Chief, Franca Sozzani took to her blog today to vent her frustrations, some of them indirectly lobbed at Carine Roitfeld. Among her grievances: “trashy” nudity, sexualizing children, nudifying old people and pretending “what’s ugly is avant-garde.”  She went on to say, “You know, I’m kind of over fashion.”

INTERVIEW: Lorenzo Martone’s Housewarming Gift Suggestions

Edited by Saynt