Editorial for Numéro Homme

Greg Kadel is a US born fashion photographer and filmmaker based in New York. He describes his approach to work as creating classic imagery with contemporary innovation.

Greg Kadel Studios

Editorial for W Aug2006

Model: Natalia Vodianova

Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott potfolio via ArtPartner

Photoshoot for Gianfranco Ferre 2003/04

Model: Mariacarla Boscono

Photography by Steven Meisel

Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum

Project Description

Over the Spring ‘06 season, SHOWstudio is embarking upon a series of projects devoted to exploring ‘The Sound of Clothes’. Continuing our commitment to re-thinking mainstream fashion editorial, we believe fashion audio to be a genuinely new frontier. Beyond overlaying imagery with non-specific sound - such as favourite songs or ambient music - the aim of The Sound of Clothes series is to explore a range of audio possibilities, such as discovering the actual sound a garment makes.

Featuring an extensive selection of accessories from the A/W ‘06-7 collections, ‘Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum’ is a series of interactives that relies on specific noises created by the viewer. Possessing a particularly craft-based aesthetic, the playful interactives employ varying techniques that bring still-life images of carefully selected accessories –including shoes, bags, rings, hairpieces, necklaces and masks- to life. Each one of the four different interactives, encourages the viewer to make specific sounds –’blow’, ‘clap’, ‘talk’ or ‘hum’- into a microphone. These noises then activate a selection of accessories-themed ’stories’ that take their form in a dress-up model, an animated crumpled paper sequence, a voice-activated selection of varyingly sized jewellery pieces and an animated shoe sequence, complete with ‘footstep’ audio.

Credits

Concept and Interactive Design: Ross Phillips
Design and Styling: Marie O’Connor
Editorial and Fashion Direction: Laura Bradley
Project Design: Paul Bruty
Studio and Design Assistance: Scott Burrell and Anna Gudbrandsdottir
Editorial Assistance: Holly Hay, Anjana Janardhan and Carla Yarish
Model: Chrisie Macdonald

Project Blog

Even though I don’t like easy reading books anymore, the movie of the book is very famous and fashionable now. And I have to post it in my very own style.

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, fresh from college, gets a job working as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor that turns increasingly hellish as she struggles to keep up with her boss’s capricious and demeaning requests. The book was hugely successful, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list.

A prime example of "chick lit," the novel was widely seen as a roman à clef about Vogue magazine and its iconic editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, since Weisberger worked there as an intern. Although she denies the story’s editor is modeled on Wintour, many readers believed otherwise, which helped propel the book to the bestseller list.

A film based on the novel, starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway, was released in summer 2006.

The Devil Wears Prada movie website

A Meaningful Quote:

"Trouble is, now corporations tell our stories for us. And the message of the corporate story is always the same:

- To be special you must conform, to be valid you must consume!" - Tom Robbins

"Does Time Dance With Memories"

Since the late 80s, swiss artist Daniele Buetti (born in 1956) works with the signs and codes of our surrounding which is dominated by brands. He became famous with his manipulations of photographs taken from lifestyle and fashion magazines. "Does Time Dance with Memories" shows new photographs and lightboxes dealing with these themes. Names of multinational fashion companies like Nike or Boss, as well as famous names of fashion designers like Armani, Gucci, Chanel etc. Daniele Buetti scribbles them into the skin of supermodels. The scribbled brands remember at tatoos brandings,abscesses or scars and let the represented beauties lose their unguilty appearing spotless.

The private adoption of the public images shows the expose and vulnerability of the models, but appears on the other hand ironic and rises the beauty for the viewer, because the models become something real away from their perfection.

With the use of advertising subjects from the world of modern lifestyle, Daniele Buetti subjects the consumer society which is dominated by the Fashion and Media Industry.

Daniele Buetti Installations