“I was not the first person to photograph Kate Moss, but maybe the second,” says Arthur Elgort, the legendary, 76-year-old New York photographer who’s known for bringing fashion out of the studio and into the real world. “I never took a bad picture of her — I couldn’t. Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, I would say they’re the best models that I’ve worked with.” Both women appear in a new exhibition of his work, which opens at Photo London this week.
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See Vintage Photos of the Teens Who Ran Washington Square Park in the 1950s
“Let me put it this way: those were the late days of beatniks and the early days of hootenanny,” says the gallerist Howard Greenberg. “It was a time when the seeds of change were being sown, and things were fermenting in the coffee shops and the folk-music clubs downtown.” He’s speaking of New York in the late 1950s, when photographer Dave Heath wandered down to Washington Square Park — the city’s incubator of youthful defiance — and captured raw, moody images of what would become a historic scene.
Read MoreEngland’s Rough-and-Tumble First Teen Fashion Movement
“The Teds were really the first manifestation of teenage culture in the U.K.,” says photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. His new exhibit exploring the British “Teddy Boy” scene of the mid-20th century recently opened at Magnum Print Room in London. It’s a peek into the macho world of a distinctive fashion tribe, complete with debauchery and street fights.
Read MoreSee Vintage Fashion Illustrations in a New London Exhibit
“A lot of people think that fashion illustration is something that died circa 1930, when photography came in — but that’s absolutely not true,” says Connie Gray, curator of “Drawing on Style,” an exhibition running during this London Fashion Week. “They ran very much hand-in-hand up until the 1960s and 1970s, and they really complemented each other on the page. Very often there would be a mixture of photography and illustration within the same fashion story.”
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