Unlike other trend bearers and recorders, they dare to break the rules and make precedents, but they cannot escape their own shackles. When asked about "the highest ideal" in front of one's own "incriminating evidence," perhaps the infinite pursuit of freedom and liberation, the unquenchable desire to resist, and a lifetime of opposition to oneself.
"There was a moment when we grasped the truth, but the truth was fleeting." This is what the master of film aesthetics Antonioni expressed in his 1966 film Blow-up. The cinematographer in the film, who photographs people and futuristic fashion, is based on David Bailey, a bad boy in the fashion industry. In 2012, BBC's Jean Shrimpton biography film We'll Take Manhattan, the former lover of the 60s IT girl was truly restored for the first time.
david bailey
blow-up(1966)
we'll take manhattan(2012)
The world that had just experienced World War II was revived in various cultural liberation ideas, and the rejuvenated fashion industry ushered in a period of advanced futurism. David Bailey, who is famous at the age of 24, has shocked major fashion magazines with strong "sexual meaning" and youth subcultural colors, and he never pays attention to the so-called demands of magazine editors and always shoots in his own way. His photos, like his life, have an untamed toughness and loneliness as the background color, and have a distinct personality and a strong style. He was born in the slums of london's East End, has no education, after 6 relationships and 4 marriages, "bad reviews" are constantly able to "sin" in the fashion circle with his own wandering skeleton. David Bailey grasps almost all fashion trends, with textured leather coats, leggings and women's suits being his signature style, witnessing the "swinging london" trend and keenly photographing the beatles, terence stamps, east end gangsters and kray twins sold to major fashion magazines.
david bailey and jean shrimpton
jane holzer
grace coddington
jean shrimpton
From a poor boy to a photography tycoon, David Bailey's values are not understood by ordinary people, and in the eyes of the general public, he is more or less as crazy as Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment". His existence can only be looked up to, this persistence and singleness is enough to make people, make people become topics, and become aliens, but for most people, people have no self, can be defined as crazy.
The strange thing about Lafayette Karl Lagerfeld is that he refuses to obediently make clothes when he makes clothes, and he is also a famous photographer, and in the documentary "The Emperor of Fashion", the handsome little male model wrapped in a blanket and slipping behind Lafayette is the most photogenic gadget. Not only did he shoot promotional photos and catalogues for Chanel, but he also held his own photographic exhibitions, which is not bad, but the damn thing is that he is also a language genius, fluent in English, French, German and Italian, and has lost weight, which is said to have been published in 2002 in carl? Lagerfield's Weight Loss Guide is still being reprinted to this day. A book is enough to prop up Galeries Lafayette's bookstore called "7l" in Rue lille in Paris.
karl lagerfeld
"the glory of water" exhibition (2013)
Photography, writing, publishing, making professional achievements in a non-professional capacity, this kind of walking the path of others so that others have no way out, we attribute it to genius, and we also regard it as a traitor—a betrayal of the world's ordinary. But where does this desire to be completely unwilling to nature and full of rebellious intentions for career come from? The unlimited use of his talents, after reaching the unattainable harvest of countless people in a lifetime, still thinks of others, just as "he realizes that he himself is not worthy of his own highest ideals", pursuing asceticism, obtaining beauty in the spirit of asceticism, endlessly pursuing and manufacturing. Karl Lagerfeld seems to be tormented by some ideal forever, unable to be quiet, unable to let go—if we use Dostoevsky's theory, this is sin and punishment. The infinite pursuit of freedom and liberation, the irrepressible resistance, the unashamed determination to do anything and do it well. The dreaded individualistic aesthetic extreme!
karl lagerfeld eyewear spring 2012 by karl lagerfeld
dior homme spring 2013 campaign by karl lagerfeld
tim walker
The website of the work www.timwalkerphotography.com
The shooting style makes good use of exaggerated and childlike props to create a storylike illusion
"Fashion is the only place where fantasy photography is allowed, and I'm a fantasist."
edie campbell by tim walker for w may 2014
Tim Walker allows us to re-understand the essence of fashion: beauty and goodness are the eternal connotations of fashion.
david lachapelle
The website of the work www.davidlachapelle.com
Shooting style high saturation color with witty surrealism
"People say photos don't lie, but my pictures do."
“jesus is my homeboy” by david lachapelle(2013)
The surreal environment created by David Lachapelle derives from real space, not from the creation of computers.
terry richardson
The website of the work www.terrysdiary.com
Shooting style Bold sex and eroticism
"If you think my work is vulgar, maybe it's time to have sex."
sisley fall 2009 campaign by terry richardson
Ordinary people are not accustomed to Terry Richardson, they think he is too barbaric, the dew point in the photo is really difficult to be elegant, the use of a point-and-shoot camera when taking pictures is too unprofessional, and Terry is to oppose the hypocritical society, he insists on bold and explicit shooting methods, he does not need to please anyone.
hedi slimane
The website of the work www.hedislimane.com
The style of shooting is timeless black and white and decadent tone
"I have identified my own style and allowed my work to be exposed to the public eye. I wonder if it can survive or die somewhere. ”
hedi slimane shoots marilyn manson for saint laurent music project (2014)
Hedi Slimane's talent lies in his ability to use a unique perspective to build a bridge with the world from his own environment. We can't simply set him up as a fashion designer. He dabbled in many areas, and whenever he tried a new field, he became more different, and now, he has one more Saint Laurent designer identity.
Sometimes we envy, sometimes we envy, where can these talented artists go? There may be people in this world who create surprises, who wait for surprises, most of whom are the latter, and we can only accept this reality. The reality is: no matter what you want to do, the only shackles you can't escape are yourself.