Namsa Leuba is a Swiss-Guinean photographer currently living and working in Paris. Her research is focused on African identity through Western eyes. Namsa Leuba’s projects include fashion editorials in WAD, i-D, Numéro.
The images above have been published in WAD Magazine n. 53 (“The Cocktail Issue).
Photo: Namsa Leuba / Styling: Jean Paul Paula
What about this phone case delivered by Maison Martin Margiela? Made of fine leather, lined with wool, the phone holder looks pretty like a broken chocolate bar. Love the concept!
Simple yet sophisticated, humble but sooo ostentatious – that’s a Tom Ford dress, from his Spring/Summer Collection 2013.
image via style.com
In a light-hearted way, this dinner set ‘Dressed for Dinner’ wants to illustrate the social aspects that are involved during that special night out. Dining involves so much more than eating alone. Be it a date, a dinner for work or a first meeting with the in-laws, we all know how anticipation of the event, lingering over the right wardrobe, getting dressed, attraction and seduction during the evening all
are as much part of dining as enjoying the food itself.
The “Dressed for Dinner” ceramics set is created by Marianne van Ooij, a Brooklyn based Dutch designer, who works in a variety of disciplines, including textiles, furniture design and ceramics.
That’s a smart concept. And the objects are beautiful, too.
Julian Palast‘s photographic series Skindeep is described as a study on the body-object, ephemeral sculptures of the human form. Instant bas reliefs recalling of the classic imagery.
In fact, these images are not ‘classic’ at all. The plastic wrap looks up to date, even fashionable, as we’ve already seen many plasticized details in recent collections. I like the body connected with such an artificial medium and depicted in toxic colors. I think this is an interesting project, in both visual and conceptual terms.
Retouching Thierry Peureux – Palast Photographie / images source: behance.net
Remember the tricky make-up in Bernhard Willhelm’s Fall 2012 collection? The painted faces and comics inspiration? As the clothes are never enough, and fashion photography is not enough, fashion seems to be interested in some old school techniques as the collage or fashion illustration. This editorial in the June issue of Dazed was inspired by the works of fashion illustrator René Gruau. Gruau’s influence on fashion imagery was overwhelming, but, to be fair, this kind of drawings look quite obsolete today. But not if you move them from the flat paper to the surface of the body, as they did for The Scanner Darkly editorial. The girls were literally transformed to look like rough drawings, with faces melting in the background.
A Scanner Darkly, the editorial Dazed & Confused, the June issue/ photographer: Daniel Jackson/ styling: Karen Langley/ make up artist: Yadim/ hair styling: Yannick D’Is/ models: Ava Smith, Codie Young, and Madison Headrick/ images via fashiongonerogue.com.
I found this stunning image above on Tumblr. I don’t know where it comes from or who did it, but that’s an exquisite piece of art. Then comes Isabel Marant’s S/S Collection 2012, very close to that spirit. I’m talking about the red pieces. The red is great along with those tie-dye effects! And the string dress with braids goes in the same crafted and flamboyant idea as the art piece mentioned above.
Isabel Marant S/S 2012 Collection- images via vogue.com
