fashion week 2012: reflection, 2

at the rachel roy show

lincoln center, nyc

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fashion week 2012: on display

one of my favorite things about fashion week at lincoln center is the use of alice tully hall as a staging area. its open facade--a 3-story glass wall--effectively "pulls back" the curtain, so we can see the models wearing the collection, the artists, stylists and designers working on finishing touches before the "performance" and the cluster of lucky photographers and reporters who are assigned to capture it all.

but for me there's also an interesting interaction with street life, as shown in some of the reflections: the surrounding architecture, the pedestrians and observers, cars and cabs, "meet" the action inside in a random but dynamic way. i wanted to try to capture that energy or that idea; these were all taken before the rachel roy show. i think a few of these are better than others, but it was a fun experiment.

i hope you like them.

all photos © anita aguilar

fashion week 2012: after. glow

post-bill blass show

park avenue, nyc

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fashion week 2012: hair/flare

at lincoln center, nyc

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pretty city: posers

guess whose pose i like best?

23rd/broadway near mad square park

sept 30, 2011

inspiration: paolo pellegrin

the deep, dark colors match my mood, but make it better.



see more of his work here...

inspiration: pin-ups

do you have an inspiration board?

i've been living in my apartment for almost 3 years. it's mostly furnished, but the walls are mostly unadorned. i just haven't had the resources to invest or commit to enough "real" art, not yet. but i've started to build a (temporary) collage on one of them--the one that i consider the "studio" wall-- with images that, apart from being pretty, are a reminder of the ways to use light and shadow to greater effect. a reminder of the "possibilities." i like having some pages up to look at, though if it stays up for very long in this DIY fashion, my mom is surely going to have something to say about it.

what i'm liking right now, torn from the pages of various international fashion magazines (thank you, sister):
--a photo from japanese vogue, of daria werbowy -- i think--shot by mikael jansson, gently backlit, with a shimmer across a bit of the headwrap and her hair;
--a nature/fantasy shot of natalia vodianova, by nick knight, though this involves a lot more graphic art and photoshop than i'm capable of;
--guinevere van seenus, photographed by javier vanhollrat, which i love for its use of various, whimsical, artificial light sources (i've got to play with those);
--a ysl "shoe" showcase, side lit, casting a terrific bold shadow of someone's very nice legs;
--phoebe philo, photographed by patrick demarchelier. i love it because a) she is cool, and b) i am a sucker for turtlenecks, and people who "hide" in them. but the more i've been looking at it the more i appreciate what a perfectly balanced "grey" shot it is. very demarchelier...
--a black and white portrait of marion cotillard from l'officiel. if i took that one myself, i would probably junk it, thinking that i ruined it because her eyes are shadowed by the brim of her hat. but koto bolofo got a great look from her. the gentle light on her chin works...

what goes up next? perhaps shots involving the terre battue...

art shots: have a look

andy warhol. nine jackies, 1964. acrylic and silk screen on canvas.

paul gaugin. la orana maria, 1891. oil on canvas.

marco breuer. spin (C-283), 2008.

chris mccaw. sunburned, gsp #166, mohave/winter solstice, 2007. gelatin silver prints.

tom friedman. untitled, 1998. chromogenic print.

pertti kekarainen. tila (passage 1), 2006. chromogenic print.

all photos © anita aguilar

the road, and ruby blue

one of the highlights of my last weekend was hanging out at my sister's house, sifting though her piles of design and fashion magazines (fell in love with a spread of stella tennant in damascus):

photos of stella tennant, photographed by tom craig, which appear in the may 2009 print edition, via vogue.co.uk.

(see the behind-the-scenes video from the shoot here...)

and then, she caught me up on SYTYCD?! i do love that show, but i missed the first few episodes of this season and never managed to catch up. it's a lot of hours of programming every week. but my sister is a brilliant curator, and i trust her to show me only the best of the best dances. i finally got to see the mia michaels "addiction" routine . and there was a great disco routine, which she said reminded her of me. which i thought was highly flattering-- have i missed my calling? disco dancer? we did laugh that if it involves some crazy head shaking and ass shaking, i could probably pull it off. but what i would LOVE to be able to do, which is really pretty far beyond me is this:



SO fun...