As a makeup artist, I love faces – that goes without saying. But I don’t just love a pretty face with makeup on it – there are interesting faces everywhere, and all kinds of ways to look at faces, too!
Thérèse Le Prat (1895-1966) is a French photographer whose work I recently discovered. She loved faces – you could say she was obsessed by them – and for those of us who also love faces, her work is a …
How do we experience perfume? Do we wear it as an accessory? A personal expression? A status symbol? Do we sense it as a fleeting vapor on people we love, or get annoyed by it on strangers in an elevator? And with all the visual, marketing, and lifestyle cues we associate with it, is there a way to experience fragrance on its own, without all the advertising and cultural “noise”?
Chandler Burr has spent over twelve years exploring and writing …
Do we create our own identities, or are they created for us? In the age of seemingly infinite aesthetic choices (including surgery), are our physical identities truly fluid, or are they dependent on the stage upon which we perform?
Visiting the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MOMA, there’s a lot to be divined on these questions. Sherman, who has famously cast herself as various personas in self portraits for the past thirty-seven years, has used the genre to explore perception …
Vanity gets a bad rap in popular folklore: from Cinderella to The Devil Wears Prada, the bad girls are usually the vain, superficial, and ultimately unhappy counterparts to the heroine’s modest, unassuming persona.
This aspect of storytelling – and the miniatures that illustrate it – play an integral part in a new exhibition at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands tours the history of medieval …
Gerald DeCock travels between creative worlds: hairstylist, painter, and now collaborator on two photography projects. A hairstylist by trade, his effortless-looking work appears regularly in photographs by Bruce Weber and Dewey Nicks, and he maintains a regular clientele of fashion, music, and art world insiders. A painter as well, his use of his apartment as a canvas is almost as well known as he is.
But for the past few years, Gerald has been quietly collaborating …
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