Photographer
RIP, Bert Stern. I wrote the noted photographer up years ago here. He sadly passed away recently. Here are just a few of the iconic images he leaves behind.
Be sure to check out the lovely Jazz on a Summer’s Day too.
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Style Icons: Male »Rene Gruau
Fashion Illustrator
Opera gloves, couture gowns, fancy summer beaches – Rene Gruau made glamour more glamorous with his simple, elegant, witty and industry changing illustrations.
Beyond being the pinnacle of couture illustration, Gruau is well known for his sumptuous Dolce Vita poster.
His designs, while accurately portraying the high styles of their time feel modern and getting lost in them is exhilarating and inspiring.
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Posted on June 20, 2013
Style Icons: Male »Ray Harryhausen
Special Effects Legend
While I’ve written up Ray Harryhausen in the past, with his recent passing, the special effects pioneer and genius is worth revisiting.
He leaves behind a legacy of imaginative and highly influential work (just take a look at any of his greats – I recommend Jason and the Argonauts).
I vividly remember watching his magic with my dad. He will be missed but his influence lives on in pretty much any film with special effects.
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Posted on May 8, 2013
Books,Web Sites »All The Buildings in New York
An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock
All The Buildings in New York could really threaten make one sentimental about just having left the big city…
I love the drawing styles, the colors, and most especially recognizing a place from the decade we spent there.
It’s recently been made into a coffee table book (good for them!) but I personally haven’t seen it yet.
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Posted on May 1, 2013
Style Icons: Male »Jeanloup Sieff
Photographer
The portraits by Jeanloup Sieff are iconic – in stunning black and white they are both intimate and sublime.
His editorial work is evocative and sensual. Yet, his name is not as well known as it deserves to be even as he images are instantly recognizable.
A recent publication (Sieff Fashion) and Colette gallery tie in will hopefully change that.
Sieff passed away in 2000, but his legacy is inspiring, timeless and beautiful.
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Posted on January 2, 2013
Hunks »Steve Olson
Hunky Skateboarder
Skateboard culture has always been one of perpetual adolescence. A boys club of daredevilry, snotty behavior and high-fiving asinine antics. No one embodies this quite as well or for so long as Steve Olson.
Now a worn out greying “artist” who dates famous women, he looks like a sleaze ball you’d expect to see in an LA gallery snug between Olivier Zahm and some tits. But then, he’s also still dashingly handsome… and in the prime of his youth? I would have wept to twelve year old fantasies of romance with him – had I known of his existence.
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Posted on August 19, 2012
Style Icons: Male »Maurice Sendak
RIP
Sad, sad news. Like so many, I grew up on Maurice Sendak. His illustrations weren’t just cute, they spoke to our fears and wildest imagination.
While Where the Wild Things Are is timeless and undoubtedly his most lasting and beloved book, I was personally most effected by the creepy Outside Over There, a haunting story of goblins kidnapping a little sister.
If you’re unfamiliar with it, I highly recommend you seek it out. It fueled whispering fantasies between my sister and I about what might lurk in the woods behind our house.
I guess that’s what I loved about Sendak’s work the most, like The Grimm brothers before him, his work wasn’t scared of children’s imagined sensitivities and frailties, it let us feel elated, frightened, hurt, thrilled, excited..
He was a true original and I will share his magical work with my kids who will no doubt share it with theirs.
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Posted on May 10, 2012
Style Icons: Male »Aquirax Uno
Awesome Artist
There’s little information to be found about psychedelic artist Aquirax Uno but his vibrant, wild works speak for themselves.
I mean, wow!
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Posted on May 3, 2012
Web Sites »Miroco Machiko
Japanese Illustrator
The work of Japanese artist Miroco Machiko has to be some of the most charming I’ve seen.
I found the whimsical childlike illustrations through a friend on Pinterest and can’t stop admiring at them.
I find them very inspiring and want to just let go with paints, markers and crayons one afternoon not over thinking the end result.
Just lovely.
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Posted on May 1, 2012
Style Icons: Male »Ralph McQuarrie
Conceptual Designer
Ralph McQuarrie was largely responsible for the awesome phenomena of the Star Wars world.
A gifted artist and visionary designer, his conceptual drawings gave life to the beloved universe.
A few of my favorite designs by him were the sand raiders, snow walkers, and Darth Vader.
He was also part of the design for Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Back to the Future, and Total Recall.
He passed away at age 82.
