Featuring Amanda Lear

Featuring Twiggy

Featuring Jerry Hall

Photographed by Herb Ritts

Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Photographed by Helmut Newton

Photographed by Herb Ritts

Photographed by Bruce Weber

Photographed by Richard Avedon

Photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino

Photographed by Juergen Teller

Photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier

Photographed by Herb Ritts

Photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth

Photographed by Steven Meisel

Photographed by Mario Testino

Photographe by Steven Klein

Photographed by David Lachapelle

Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier

Photographed by Nick Knight

Photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth

Photographed by Terry Richardson

Photographed by Mario Sorrenti

Photographed by Peter Lindbergh

Photographed by Hedi Slimane

Featuring Kate Moss

Designed by Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci

Photographed by Mert & Marcus

Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a body of 1000 Web experts and Internet professionals, the Webbys highlight two winners of the World Wide Web in some 130 categories, voted on by the people and by their panel.

For his Live at the Beacon Theater stand-up special, comedian Louis C.K. was named Webby Person of the Year. Independently releasing  the show on his website for $5 a download, Live at the Beacon Theater raked in over $1 million in less than two weeks. Other comedians such as Aziz Ansari and Jim Gaffigan have followed suit.

Björk was named Webby Artist of the Year for her multimedia project, Biophilia, billed as the world’s “first app album,” in collaboration with Apple.

Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard shared the Webby Actress of the Year award for “Shit Girls Say,” the viral sensation that infamously spawned a seemingly neverending proliferation of parodies.

For a full list of winners of the 16th annual Webby Awards click here.

The Webbys will host their award ceremony on May 21 where winners can pick up their trophies and deliver their five-word acceptance speeches, as Anna Wintour surprisingly and succinctly did last year. [WWD, WSJ]

Best Costume Design: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen for She Builds Domes in Air by Catherine Sullivan

Kristen McMenamy wanders about looking lost but impossibly beautiful in Alexander McQueen’s wondrous spring 2012 collection for AnOther Magazine.

Entitled “Visions Couture,” the display will feature these Daphne avatars in looks from Paco Rabane, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe — in other words, a fierce fashionable feast for the eyes. ”Visions” will also include short films by Knight about each outfit and an interactive display by multimedia artist Danny Brown, utilizing images submitted by the public and passersby. The Daphne-quins will be unveiled come February 6. [WWD]

“When you work with real people, you can’t impose something,” Roitfeld told WWD. She also stressed the importance of casting for male fashion becuase “it’s men who give personality to the clothes they wore.” Where she stands on women and personality is anyone’s guess, but for the cover Carine tapped easy-on-the-eyes French actor Tahar Rahim, shot by Nick Knight. Frequent collaborator and BFF Karl Lagerfeld also stepped behind the lens for the issue, as did Richard Avedon‘s son, Michael, who shot portraits of up-and-coming young actors, including The Hunger Games‘ Alexander Ludwig. Jean Baptiste Mondino snapped hottie bullfighter José María Manzanares and Willy Vandeperre lensed Lima et al for the pin-up calendar.

The Carine Roitfeld-helmed issue of VMAN hits stands on Valentine’s Day. [WWD]

Rankin

Nick Knight

David Sims

Terry Richardson

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Damien Hirst

Sam Taylor-Wood

Katie Grand

Katy England

Alister Mackie

Nicola Formichetti

Alexander McQueen

Vivienne Westwood

Gareth Pugh

If none of that sounds familiar, then you’d best get listening to Lady Gaga’s new album. It’s out today! Go buy it, I’ll wait…….. okay good you’re back. Now while you’re waiting for it to download, take a glimpse inside the Born This Way digital booklet of album art. That is one baaaaad Mother Monster.

Gaga morphs into a motorcycle. Is there anything she can’t do?!

The pronounced vision of her body prosthesis gives the pointed shoulder and strong cheekbones a hard on.

Pants? PANTS?? Gaga! In your gay wedding to the world you took a vow to never wear pants. I’m just feeling a little betrayed. No, your toplessness doesn’t make up for it…… okay maybe it does. Don’t look at me.

Gaga, the living breathing work of art, is melting into marble with the steaming heat of Fame.

I don’t speak German, but Verdammen Sie, der sexy ist!

She’s a soldier in her own emptiness. I salute.

Put your paws up.

She won’t poke holes in the seats with her heels.

Lady Gaga is a painting dripping in reality, evolving so fast the paint has hardly the time to dry.

Shouts to the Haus of Gaga and its monster allies:

Photography: Nick Knight

Fashion Director: Nicola Formichetti

Stylist: Anna Trevelyan and Brandon Maxwell

Hair: Sam McKnight

Makeup: Val Garland

Nails: Marian Newman

- Grace Coddington‘s 70th birthday was a who’s who of fashion royalty, with a guest list including Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Naomi Campbell, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Annie Leibovitz,  Helmut Lang, André Leon Talley, Liya Kebede, Karen Elson, Stefano Pilati, Hamish Bowles, Karlie Kloss, Nicolas Ghesquière, Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Vera Wang, Edward Enninful, Riccardo Tisci, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez from Proenza Schouler and Laura and Kate Mulleavy from Rodarte. Twas clearly a magical night, as evidenced by this photo of Anna having what appears to be…a good time:

There but for the Grace of Coddington go I. [Styleite]

- Another image has “leaked” from Beyoncé‘s video shoot — either B has awful security or we’re just the pawns in her little chess game of pop supremacy…either way I couldn’t care less because she’s wearing Alexander McQueen. [Red Carpet Fashion Awards]

LINK LOVE: Fashion Copious

At last night’s British Fashion Awards, Nick Knight debuted his short film tribute toAlexander McQueen, who was honored posthumously for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design.

The film was hauntingly scored by Bjork, styled by Edward Enninful, and features solely black models in the best of McQueen’s archives. “This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life,” Knight noted. “My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all.” [SHOWstudio]

Watch video here

(credit: Fashionologie)

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The collection of images are also printed on paper embedded with wildflower seeds so that they could be planted and actually blossom. The case is wrapped in a McQueen metalized brocade from his Spring/Summer 2010 show. Make sure you get one now because there are only 1500 copies . Click here to guarantee your copy.

The latest Visionaire will be a limited-edition (only 1,500 copies will be printed), pricey (cost is $295, though I imagine it going up at auction) tribute to the late Alexander McQueen, which will feature contributing artists Nick Knight, Lady Gaga, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Meisel, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, David Sims, Sean Ellis, and Sebastian Faena.

Click Here for an exclusive first look at the issue.

The tome has revealed that Lady Gaga’s contribution will come in the form of a sound clip that can be played from the magazine. Definitely one of the publications most ambitious tributes, we’re really looking forward to getting to hear what Lady Gaga has to say about the artist that was McQueen.

LINK LOVE: Visionaireworld.com

Nick Knight last produced the video backdrop for Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 show, and is said to be currently working with both Alexander Wang and the Rodarte (Kate and Laura Mulleavy) girls for this upcoming fashion week.

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‘Tonight Matthew’ captures Gareth Pugh’s unique dress in action, via a sensational performance from Raquel Zimmermann.

Credits
Tonight Matthew
Film: Nick Knight
Performance: Raquel Zimmermann
Hair: Sam McKnight
Make-up: Val Garland
Nails: Marian Newman
Edit: Ruth Hogben
Fashion: Gareth Pugh
Soundtrack: Lady Gaga

Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 Campaign

Photography:  Nick Knight

Model: Raquel Zimmermann

Although this spread is more photoshop than anything else, we still applaud Vogue UK for attempting to bring innovation to traditional fashion editorials, but next time, they should pass on the weird graphic branches.  We can see that poor Natalia is trying very hard to make them work.

Gareth Pugh dressed Julia Stegner for a Mercedes ad shot by Nick Knight.

LINK LOVE: NY Mag via WWD

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1. The Cremaster Cycle– Matthew Barney

Bjork – Pagan Poetry from Medusa on Vimeo.

2. Pagan Poetry, Bjork – Directed by Nick Knight

3. The Last of England – Derek Jarman

4. Meshes of the Afternoon – Maya Deren

5. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome – Kenneth Anger – Starring Anais Nin

Chris Cunningham for Gucci from Stas on Vimeo.

6. Anything by Chris Cunningham (Flora, Flex, Frozen, etc)

7. Greed – Francesco Vezzoli

8. Inez & Vinoodh’s films for YSL Manifesto

9. Andy Warhol – Empire

10. Pedro Almodovar – Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

11. Lars Von Trier – The Five Obstructions, Dancer in The Dark, etc.

That’s eleven….oops!

Lady Gaga, Nick Knight and filmmaker Ruth Hogben launch a collaborative project, inviting the singer’s fans to submit their own video imagery for inclusion in her 2009-2010 World Tour ‘The Monster Ball’.

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Photographer Nick Knight just spoke with The Times UK about his preference between the two Supers: “Over the years I’ve felt I want to work with Naomi rather than Kate. I like the fact that Naomi sits less comfortably in society than Kate does,” he said. “Talk to Naomi and she is f***ing incandescent with rage that she’s not on the cover of Vogue. She puts it down to racism, and she’s furious.”

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Nick Knight’s, SHOWstudio.com is completely changing the way the world experiences fashion. With top designer exclusives, such as Gareth Pugh‘s recent video presentation release, the site is quickly becoming a force in media that few in traditional publishing can comprehend.

Next up for the site is an April 28th live broadcast of a Nick Knight photoshoot. Titled Soft Furnishings – The Erotic House of Peter Savile, the shoot will be a sexually charged behind the scenes look at Knight’s July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine shoot.

According to Elle, “Knight’s team will construct an Erotic House, in which they will be sexualizing furniture, fashion and flesh. Expect daily shoot highlights, interviews, set shots, and a scan of the fashion rack, which is promised to be filled with Fall 2009 fashions from Prada, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Marc Jacobs.”

Sex & Fashion. Tivo that bitch.

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Emma Watson (recently turned 19) lands the cover of the Interview Mag Mag 09 issue, photographed by Nick Knight.

AnOther Fashion Book, a collectible coffee table tome from the AnOther Magazine people, will soon be available at  Colette.

The $85 book is a retrospective of the exclusive editorials from eight years of the biannual. Featured photographers include Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Sam Taylor-Wood, Horst Diekgerdes, Stephen Shore, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Willy Vanderperre and Glen Luchford.

Karl Lagerfeld’s Edition 7L will publish, and Steidl will print it.

Lily Donaldson makes her outfits come alive in the spread “Fringe Festival” shot by Nick Knight for Vogue UK. I love that everything in the photos seems to be in motion; her dresses, hair and limbs are flying around in midair giving the illusion of extreme movement. My favorite dresses are most definitely the last two; she slightly reminds me of Big Bird in the second photo.

Thanks to Fashion Copious for the photos.

Some of the freakiest fashion photos will be on display at the Weird Beauty exhibit at the International Center of Photography in NYC. The exhibit will try to represent the convergence of art, sexuality, narratives, digital and youth influences on fashion photography. Original photographs will be shown alongside tearsheets from published works. Steven Meisel, Cindy Sherman, Mario Sorrenti, Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Miles Aldridge, Paolo Roversi, Sølve Sundsbø and more will be on display through May.

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It has been in the works for a long time but finally SHOWstudio has launched the Insensate; a two minute short film by Nick Knight and filmmaker Ruth Hogben which was filmed during the cover shoot for the October issue of Dazed.

A gothic fairyland was conjured up and taking center position is Gareth Pugh’s autumn winter 2008 collection. The film’s soundtrack has been specially devised by artist Matthew Stone.

Thanks Dazed Digital

There is noting more stunning than December British Vogue’s editorial titled “Unbelievable Fashion.” Leave it up to Nick Knight to capture Lily Donaldson and Jourdan Dunn in an imaginative, dream like pictorial poetry spread. This is an editorial for fashion lovers, dreamers and visionaries. Despite the anything but ready to wear fashions and amazing styling, this editorial seems so natural and effortless. Kudos Vogue, this is brilliant. 

Thanks I Love Lily Donaldson!

This month’s issue of UK Vogue not only features that amazing Roald Dahl shoot, it also features an avant garde tribute by Nick Knight. Entitled ‘Unbelievable Fashion’ this editorial goes through the most mind blowing garments of the last years. Viktor & Rolf, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, Galliano and Alexander McQueen are just a few of the names whose frocks make an appearance.

Thanks Wicked Halo

Love Nick Knight, and love the delicateness of this spread. The colors are subdued yet sexy, and the brightness of the model’s orange hair really stands out amongst the other muted tones.

Thanks Wicked Halo for the pics

Supermodel Naomi Campbell stars in photographer and filmmaker Nick Knight’s film. The film ends with the infamous supermodel firing two handguns. I love it. While Campbell’s violent past could make this film hilarious, the movie’s subject touches on a serious fashion issue. The film’s premise is racism in the fashion industry.

Lately, this seems to be a hot topic. From Italian Vogue’s all black issue to small forums, the industry is taking note of the color void. The silent film addresses the blunt nature of designers, advertisers, editors and agencies who denounce black models for employment. While the film is only two minutes long, it is powerful and resonate.   

“By my own inaction, I am guilty of allowing racism to be normalized and accepted in this business. This has made my deeply sad and increasingly angry.”  - Nick Knight

View the film here! 

Thanks to SHOWstudio for the pics! 

Gemma Ward Photographed by Nick Knight

Famed photographer Nick Knight is rounding up his formidable circle of fashion friends and having them spin records live on his Showstudio Web site. The project, dubbed Fashion Deejays, is in tandem with Swarovski and will see the likes of Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Naomi Campbell and Giles Deacon hitting the decks over three days starting July 9.

Click more to read Nick Knight’s bio.

Background on Nick Knight: Knight’s first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982, when he was a 24-year-old photography student at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine’s fifth anniversary issue. As a result of those black-and-white portraits, his work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalogue of avant-gard Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with renowned graphic designer Peter Saville. Since this first foray into fashion photography, he has shot both editorial and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Audi, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Jil Sander, Lancôme, Levi Strauss, Martine Sitbon, Mercedes-Benz, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Swarovski and Yves Saint Laurent.

Agyness Deyn isn’t the only model with multiple covers for one magazine this season (i-D mag shot her for 7 covers), Vogue Espana decided to celebrate it’s 20th year of offering chica’s fashion advice with four distinct covers featuring the last supermodel, Kate Moss.  Nick Knight played his role in the shoot using stars as an overall theme for the covers.  Moss was caught wearing a Chanel star print jump suit and a Yves Saint Laurent white satin star print dress.

I wonder if Kate Moss is pissed she only got four covers to Aggy’s seven?

So we all know that Kate Moss is notorious for her inability to make it down the aisle with any of her rocker boytoys.  But it seems that the model will finally get her day in white. No, she’s not taking it to the alter with her new Pete Doherty dopplegangler.  Agent Provocateur will be releasing a new series of bridal lingerie and they’ve tapped Kate for the campaign. According to WWD, “Nick Knight will shoot a series of six images for the campaign, which will “portray Moss as a bride who has a last-minute change of heart.” The first shots will appear on the company’s Web site and will be released to the press in May. A film of Moss shooting the campaign also will premier on Knight’s Web site, Showstudio.com, on May 3.”

Back in 2006, when the brand featured Kate in an internet film title “The Four Dreams of Miss X”, fans flooded Agent Provacateur’s website causing it to crash.   Hopefully this time around they have some backups.

Photographer Nick Knight had a little fun with model Kate Moss for his recent Flowers for Kate shoot for V magazine last December.  So much fun that he took all the extra footage and made this nifty little video where Kate provides a spoken soundtrack of Roddy Lumsden’s poem ‘Bloom’, which the poet composed on the set.  Who knew horticulture could be so fashionable?

Agyness Overload?

i-D’s May issue will feature not one, not two, not thirty (oh, to high) but FIVE Agyness Deyn covers!!!  It may be a bit of Agyness Overload, which means any day now, remaining true to its cannibalistic nature, the media that has so kindly raised her to the status of “IT Girl” will ceremoniously break her down and leave her rotting size zero carcass on the side of some runway in Milan.  Hell, if we did it to Britney and Kate Moss we’ll do it to this new face in a heartbeat.

The addition features editorials lensed by Terry Richardson (whose article in the recent issue of GQ is by far the best thing that magazine has produced in five years) and Nick Knight, in addition Deyn pens a few notes down with an essay on Vivienne Westwood. Plus, her mom and boyfriend, [insert forgettable guitarist here], get in on the Aggy gravy train by writing  a few pieces on the model.

Can’t wait to ignore this issue of i-D as I pick up an issue of Us Weekly?  Oh no, it’s started….