With the inexplicable rarity of good magazine covers, I feel we should celebrate those few titles that still understand their importance. Following our post about the Dazed & Confused 2010 covers, we take a look at what Interview magazine delivered this past year. My personal favorite is the May cover (bow to the Queen). See them all after the jump.
Released a couple months ago, the provocative photography book Sante D'Orazio: Barely Private is an uncensored photo-diary/scrapbook that shares ‘private’ moments of a multitude of models, musicians, actors, artists and all sorts of celebrities, through the eyes of photographer Sante D'Orazio.
Covering the years between 1997 and 2008, the book offers candid images of Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Angelina Jolie, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, Liz Hurley, Jay-Z, Diane Kruger, Pamela Anderson, Mickey Rourke, Christina Aguilera, Keith Richards, and many more. See more after the jump (warning: NSFW).
David LaChapelle brings his vision of sinners, saints & martyrs to the Eden Issue of Flaunt magazine. We’ve previously seen bits and pieces from this feature, but here it is in all its heavenly glory.
Mario Testino celebrates all thing UK in the editorial ‘Brilliantly British’ which appeared in the October 2009 issue of British Vogue. The editorial features Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Lily Donaldson and Stella Tennant.
Centering around an epic image, David LaChapelle’s The Rape of Africa has been showing at the David DeSanctis Gallery in Los Angeles in September and October, and in Amsterdam before that. But if you missed these exhibits, you can get the David LaChapelle: The Rape of Africa book on Amazon.
LaChapelle’s image is inspired by the Venus and Mars painting by Sandro Botticelli, dating back to 1484.
NARS cosmetics celebrates its 15th anniversary with a special photography book by François Nars, the creative director and founder of the company. According to WWD, François did both the makeup and photography in the book “15x15,” which will be out in mid-November for 30 days only at a dedicated site.
The book features portraits of people like Marc Jacobs, Olivier Theyskens, Francois Vincentelli, Naomi Campbell, Amanda Lepore, Amber Valetta, Natasha Poly, Daphne Guinness, Shalom Harlow, and more.
After the numerous short clips, we finally get to see the D&G Anthology commercial in all its 1 minute glory. In my opinion, from the print ads to the commercial, this was a fantastic Dolce & Gabbana campaign. I am guessing the commercial is directed by Mario Testino, who also did the print ads.
See the print ads and sexy behind the scenes images & videos of the shoot here.
The D&G Anthology collection features five non-gender specific scents that are inspired by Tarot cards and their numbers: Le Bateleur 1 (The Magician, Tyson Ballou), L’Imperatrice 3 (The Empress, Naomi Campbell) , L’Amoureaux 6 (Noah Mills), La Roue de la Fortune 10 (The Wheel of Fortune, Eva Herzigova and Fernando Fernandes) and La Lune 18 (The Moon, Claudia Schiffer). The fragrance sells for $65.
UPDATE:Finally, Dolce & Gabbana released the official Anthology commercial, and an extra clip with backstage action.
And here are some fun behind the scenes images of the shoot.
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