Ayami Nishimura

Ayami Nishimura
Author: Photographer Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Cosmetics
ISBN: 9780956779427

Ayami Nishimura has made a name for herself transforming high profile clients. She has worked with some of the best-known celebrities, and her work has appeared in the pages of illustrious fashion magazines all over the world. Here, Ayami presents her most directional work yet. Given free reign to express herself, her elaborate and whimsical creations open a window into a fantasy world. Rankin has captured Ayami's highly conceptual work, realising her visions in a glistening dreamscape. Together Rankin and Ayami Nishimura have produced a stunning work of art.

Alex Box

Alex Box
Author: Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Body art
ISBN: 9780956315502

In an industry with many imitators and few originators, visionary make-up artist Alex Box and photographer Rankin have collaborated to create a truly unique oeuvre. Here, 40 colour portraits display the art of two groundbreakers at the pinnacle of their professions. The result is a collection of hauntingly beautiful and visually stunning images - art and artistry in its highest form.

Caroline Saulnier

Caroline Saulnier
Author: Photographer Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780956779434

In the last 25 years, Caroline Saulnier has developed from technical excellence to conceptual visionary, working as successfully on editorial as on commercial campaigns. Her style is classical and avant-garde, in equal measure; she experiments with unusual texture and bold pigment to create amazing works of art. Her work draws on the unique features and imperfections of her models as inspiration. Saulnier's astonishing work is captured by Rankin, and his individual style is instantly recognisable in the portraits.

Andrew Gallimore

Andrew Gallimore
Author: Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Cosmetics
ISBN: 9780957213562

For the fourth installment in Rankin's beauty book series, the prolific photographer teams up with Hunger Magazine's very own Beauty-Editor-At-Large, Andrew Gallimore. His previous high-profile collaborations for the series have included Alex Box, Ayami Nishimura and Caroline Saulnier. Having first worked together on Jitrois's AW08 campaign, Rankin and Andrew have been friends for six years, joining forces on a number of landmark editorial projects and commercial shoots. The pair's most recent project, Andrew Gallimore by Rankin, not only documents their creative partnership thus far but features new, never-before-seen material shot exclusively for the stunning art book. Featuring a range of compelling portraiture, Andrew Gallimore by Rankin sees the pair chart British history through make-up, give their own vibrant take on death masks and embrace blood, guts and gore. As the UK's first ambassador for Dior, Andrew has never been one to shy away from experimentation while, since founding Dazed & Confused in 1992, Rankin has captured almost every walk of life with his lens. This unique set of images illustrates that, both individually and as a pair, Rankin and Andrew are game changers at the top of their fields who never cease to impress and amaze.

Fashion Game Changers

Fashion Game Changers
Author: Karen Van Godtsenhoven
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1474280080

Fashion Game Changers traces radical innovations in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga began to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping bodies in more autonomous garments which often took inspiration from beyond the West. As the century progressed, new generations of avant-garde designers from Rei Kawakubo to Martin Margiela further developed the ideas instigated by their predecessors to defy established notions of femininity in dress, creating space between body and garment. This way, a new relationship between body and dress emerged for the 21st century. With over 200 images and commentaries from an international range of leading fashion curators and historians, this beautifully illustrated book showcases some of the most revolutionary silhouettes and innovative designs of over 100 years of fashion.

Dolce & Gabbana Uomini

Dolce & Gabbana Uomini
Author:
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0847837009

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the launching of their men's underwear line, Dolce + Gabbana is publishing a volume celebrating their sensual and unique view of male beauty. Celebrated for styling clothing that accentuates a man's inherent masculinity while revealing some of his hidden empathy, Dolce + Gabbana are one of fashions most celebrated designers. For this volume, Dolce + Gabbana have decided to highlight the beautiful, atmospheric, sensual photographic work of Mariano Vivanco, one of the world's leading photographers and a photographer with whom Dolce + Gabbana have had a long and fruitful collaboration. In this volume, Vivanco collects a series of photographs that celebrate the beauty and vigor of the male body at its most perfect. Featuring a series of the world's top male models -- Noah Mills, Jesper and Sebastian Lund, Miguel Iglesias, Adam Senn and above all the celebrated Tony Ward - in sensual poses highlighting the design and workmanship of Dolce + Gabbana's garments, The photos are both pure (rendered in rich duotone prints) and magnificent. Most of the images are en plein air, and they clearly owe their inspiration to Italy's noble Roman heritage And The ideals of classical Graeco-Roman sculpture. In a word, these photographs showcase the 'modern' Adonis as conceived by Dolce + Gabbana and Mariano Vivanco. Also included is a series of intensely erotic indoor scenes where each model truly becomes an object of desire. Each photograph will be introduced with a brief text or quotation from notable woman on the subject of men and underwear. This book will be a must have for anyone interested in fine photography, fashion, And The beauty of the male form.

Untold Night and Day

Untold Night and Day
Author: Bae Suah
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683359127

The acclaimed Korean author weaves a “disturbing, beautifully controlled” metaphysical detective story “of doubles, shadows, and parallel worlds” (Financial Times). It’s Ayami’s final day working the box-office at Seoul’s only audio theater for the blind. Her last shift completed, she walks the streets with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. Their conversations take in art, love, food, and the inaccessible country to the north. The next day, Ayami acts as a guide for a detective novelist visiting from abroad. But as they contend with the summer heat, the edges of reality start to fray. Ayami enters a world of increasingly tangled threads, and the past intrudes upon the present as overlapping realities repeat, collide, change, and reassert themselves. Blisteringly original, Untold Night and Day upends the very structure of narrative storytelling. By one of the boldest and most innovative voices in contemporary Korean literature, and masterfully realized in English by Man Booker International Prize–winning translator Deborah Smith, Bae Suah’s hypnotic novel asks whether more than one version of ourselves can exist at once.