Aurore de La Morinerie

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Aurore de La Morinerie was born in 1962. During the 80s, she studied at the famous Ecole des Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris, after which she started a highly successful career as an illustrator, be it for prestigious magazines such as Le Monde, Elle, World of interiors among others, as well as for the advertising media or for all kinds of books.

She is often commissioned to work for the world of fashion and luxury; her techniques include ink and wash painting, as well as etching press for monotypes.

She spent two years studying Chinese calligraphy that taught her concentration, strength and rapidity of execution and was to become the most formative influence on her style. Extended travels in China but also in India, Japan and Egypt followed. Since then, she has been pursuing a career as a fashion artist, working for Hermes, Le Monde, and fashion magazines, with advertisement commissions from clients like Soffitel, Le Printemps etc., and a parallel career as a fine artist whose main subject is the study of nature: landscapes, plants, animals...Her's style is very lyrical. my illustrate professor's method has some analogy to that pic .

Hermès - Fall/Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear Paris

Designer - Christopher Lemaire 

Sara Blomqvist

Alla Kostromichova

Du Juan

  

Tara Gill

  

Feifei Sun

  

unknown

Kristina Salinovic

 

Valerija Kelava

unknown

Daria Strokous

 

 

Ginta Lapina

 

 

Monika Sawicka

 

 

Sigrid Agren

Marike Le Roux

Caterina Ravaglia

Daiane Conterato

Edie Campbell

Xiao Wen Ju

 

This show is Lemarie's first Hermès show, but I think that he achieve more than expected.

Irving Penn Photography

concise impression, strong expression, definete consideration, accurate touch
= A masterpiece of lasting merit

Extream beauty in Vogue

 Erwin Blumenfeld Jean Patchett January 1950

Irving Penn Sweetie (A) January 2002

Irving Penn Football Face November 2002

Steven Klein Dream Cream January 2002

Irving Penn Large Nude Seated April 2004

Irving Penn Mascara Wars July 2001

Irving Penn Bee on Lips December 1995

I love Irving Penn's Pic

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon  was one of America’s most prominent photographers.

His works defined much of our fashion, art, and celebrity photography in the second half of the 20th century.

Bob Dylan by Richard Avedon

Audrey Hepburn by Richard Avedon, 1953

Avedon, who passed away in 2004 while on an assignment, grew up in the Bronx and started off as a photographer for the Merchant Marines in the early 1940s.  He later started providing images for Vogue and Life, depicting models in all sorts of emotion.  His art was always slightly edgy, blending the dramatic with the playful, such as showing a model adorned in Dior, posing next to elephants.  I especially like how his pieces brought out the movement or emotion in scene, rather than always portraying a lifeless subject.

Now, 6 years after his passing, Avedon’s photos are heading to Paris to be auctioned off this Fall for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  ”Dovima with Elephants” is expected to sell for $500,000 to $700, 000.  The total collections of about 60 photographs is worth up to $6 million.  The auction was set up by the Avedon Foundation of New York, hoping to create an endowment to carry out the legacy of the late artist.

The photos will be auctioned off on Nov. 20, 2010, around the same time as the Photo Paris festival.  Here are some more of Avedon’s works.