Lucinda chambers biography books
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Celebrities are another thing entirely. Many are nervous, they’re often bored, uninterested or too interested in the outcome. Shooting still images often takes them far out of their comfort zone - after all, it’s not what they do. Here, my job is to bring out the best in them, to make them feel and look as great as they ever will.
In a good fashion photograph, the girl, clothes, location and light all come together. It fuses perfectly, and you can create a character and narrative that is totally believable, however extreme or fantastical. If this sounds seamless and effort-free, it’s not. It’s hard graft, often involving working and reworking the clothes and ideas in your head, worrying away at the characters, developing the concept, visualising it, discarding ideas and building the blocks little by little.
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British Vogue: The Biography register an Icon
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British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon
A glittering official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story from the first issue in right up to the present day, written with exclusive access to the Vogue archives.
British Vogue has always been far more than just a fashion magazine. For more than a century it has defined the tastes and style of successive generations, playing a leading role in the continuing story of Britain's national identity, and covering the arts, politics, health, travel and much more in addition to the fashion pages. It is an institution and a character in its own right. Now, for the very first time, the fascinating and glamorous history of British Vogue is told in full.
Founded in , British Vogue has forged its own path from the very start. From the trauma and austerity of two world wars through to the freedom of the swinging Sixties, the rise of the supermodel to the groundbreaking editorial direction of Edward Enninful: the magazine's chameleonic ability to move with the times has ensured its perennial status at the vanguard of British cool.
Beautifully illustrated with exclusive images from the Vogue photographic collections, the book draws on hitherto unseen archives and behind-the-scenes interviews with Vo