Royal Couture

Here is another proof of Steven Meisel's photographic artistry in the form of a fashion editorial simply entitled “Couture”. With a styling that reminds me of 18th century European royal court paintings and especially of Queen Marie Antoinette, these Haute Couture designs are more than appropriate.
Vogue Italia march 2005
Vogue Italia march 2005
Featured in March 2005 issue of Vogue Italia the photoshoot gathers quite the bunch of top-models: Lydia Hearst, Malin Martensson, Kim Noorda, Ilona Kuodiene and Barbara Fialho. Loveliest pictures show a red velvet Dior gown and a gold-embroidered white organza petal dress by Chanel.
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture - 07
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture - 07
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture - 08
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture - 08
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture
Vogue Italia Steven Meisel Couture

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By Haut Fashion , 5 January 2019

8 March Outfit

8 March Outfit

I wish you all fashionistas out there a Happy International Women's Day and here is my idea for a perfect 8 March outfit: sweet, feminine but also very modern thanks to masculine accents such as a loose silver blazer and a wide watch cuff.

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By Haut Fashion, 7 March 2018

Reflections of Glamour

Vogue Italia march 2008

From mild, floating mist are emerging figures of perfect elegance, illusory and sophisticate. They come to life rising from the boundaries of unearthliness. That is the description of this vintage-inspired fashion editorial entitled Reflections of...

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By Haut Fashion, 5 January 2019

Linda Evangelista is The Duchess

The Duchess

June 2008 issue of Vogue Italia features a special editorial called “The Duchess”, a character masterfully played by Canadian top model Linda Evangelista. No wonder she is considered a staple of the modeling industry....

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By Haut Fashion, 11 June 2018

The Honourable Daphne Guinness

Daphne Guinness Vogue Italia - 1

Blue-blooded socialite, style-icon and haute-couture maniacal collector Daphne Guinness plays the main part in the "Future Couture" fashion editorial featured in Italian Vogue.

The pictures, that emanate a strong ‘...

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By Haut Fashion, 5 November 2018

A winter fairytale - Family Circus

Roversi W Magazine dec2010

Anyone who is in love with childhood fairy tales and bizarre circus stories will adore this fashion pictorial published in the December 2010 issue of W Magazine. A snowy night forest backdrop and the mood is settled. Enter the scene lovely...

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By Haut Fashion, 6 December 2019

Alice in Fashionland

Leibovitz - Lewis Carroll

"Lewis Carroll dressed her as an innocent in satin and ribbons. Disney made her flaxen haired and saucer eyed. In the pages of Vogue the land of merry unbirthdays and late running rabbits shimmers to life again - as the world's most influential designers...

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By Haut Fashion, 28 March 2019

Diva's worship of High Fashion

Diva

"They are beautiful as the angels and worship-worthy as one thousand Saints: Diva shows the precious couture creations." The December issue of the Austrian magazine, Diva, features an amazing Byzantine-Icons-inspired...

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By Haut Fashion, 30 December 2017

Recollections of the Fall

Pure Magazine october 2008
Magalie Daignault is captured by the lenses of Canadian photographer Nelson Simoneau for the October issue of Pure Magazine. The fashion editorial called "Souvenirs D'Automne" shot in a Catholic cemetery evokes Italian Cinema dramas of...

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By Haut Fashion, 25 November 2018

The Enchanted Garden

Vogue Jessica Stam
Enjoy a wonderful pictorial starring supermodel Jessica Stam featured in Vogue Italia (November 2008 issue). The Enchanted Garden photo editorial, shot by London-based Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø, gathers a series of...

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By Haut Fashion, 20 December 2018

Anna Selezneva is Eco Warrior

Anna Selezneva i-D magazine

The Silent Russian model Anna Selezneva poses as 'Eco Warrior' for the fall/winter 2009 edition of i-D magazine. Photographed by Richard Bush and styled by Sarah Richardson this "post-apocalyptic" character...

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By Haut Fashion, 9 November 2019

Vague Emotions

W Suvi Koponen october2008

Fashion photography, the most glamorous form of art, ceased a long time ago to be just a dull, empty form of presentation due to cutting edge culture magazines and talented artists.

Photographer Craig McDean...

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By Haut Fashion, 6 March 2019