In fact, the 19-year-old had already photographed Bowie twice by then: earlier that month at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall and the previous December at the city’s legendary Hardrock Concert Theatre. But he instinctively knew he didn’t have the “shot”. So he bought a ticket for the Leeds show, positioning himself in the optimum spot to … Read more
BUILT FOR ART: For the first time, Creator Labs, the arts incubator that nurtures artists with their personal work, will feature talents who are based outside of the U.S. Among the new participants are Campbell Addy, Gabriel Moses, Justin French and Furmaan Ahmed — all of whom are U.K.-based. Now in its eighth season, the program was … Read more
“If you are curious, then you are alive,” Juergen Teller told W back in 2021. “Life is precious, and you’ve got to do the best you can with it. You can find everything boring, you can find everything negative, or you can jump in the cold water and take a risk.” Nowhere is this credo—which … Read more
“Duran used to say to me, ‘If I see a flat roll of fabric, I freak out because I don’t know what to do with it!’ ” recalls the designer Kym Ellery, sitting in the audience at her friend Duran Lantink’s spring 2024 show, in Paris. Evidence is growing that he has figured it out. It … Read more
Sheila Metzner recalls her first commission from a major New York magazine that catapulted her career. It was in the early ’80s when she received a call from Lloyd Ziff, the creative art director at Vanity Fair, the magazine recently resurrected by Condé Nast. He had seen Metzner’s name on a list of photographers the … Read more
