On Channelling Creativity: Marc Ascoli & Craig McDean In Conversation
In the latest issue of AnOther, the French art director and the English photographer come together for a conversation about photographic memories and their 25-year collaborative relationship
April 13, 2021
Lead ImageSelf-portrait by Craig McDean
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The image of the American model Guinevere van Seenus holding up a strip of pink wallpaper – hair pulled back, make-up pared back, gazing somewhere to the right of the camera, seemingly lost in thought – is one of the defining fashion images of the Nineties. The irony, of course, being that the photograph contains no clothes. Trumping attitude over attire, this image formed part of the Jil Sander Spring/Summer 1996 camp
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In 2006, I was at a screening of The Devil Wears Prada with a friend who was a senior executive at British Vogue. In the film, based on a roman-a-clef by a former Vogue assistant, Meryl Streep plays terrifying fashion editor Miranda Priestly, all put-downs, scathing one-liners and fierce black-rimmed spectacles.
It was widely accepted as a thinly veiled portrait of the equally terrifying Vogue editor Anna Wintour. I asked my friend what she thought of the film. ‘It was something of an understatement,’ she said.
Wintour, famed for her thinness and implacable silence, is capable of producing fear and fascination, even if you’re not especially fashion-conscious. Highly ambitious, she moved to New York in 1975 and after blistering through various magazines was appointed editor-in-chief of Vogue.
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I used to think mother-daughter dressing was cringey. Now I ve changed my mind
From J.Lo and her mum to Carole Middleton and the Duchess of Cambridge, a shared love of clothes doesn’t have to be a cringe-fest
13 March 2021 • 6:00am
The apple doesn t fall far from the tree: Carine Roitfeld and Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Jennifer Lopez and Guadalupe Rodríguez, the Duchess of Cambridge and Carole Middleton
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Mother-daughter dressing has a bad rep. Not all of it underserved. There are the mothers who rush their teeny daughters into sexually provocative outfits almost as soon as they’re out of babygrows in order to bank an unignorable photo opp when they and Mini Miss step out in matching sequins.
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