Reference Library

The original CK 1 stance. I mean has cool ever been this effortless?

The blur between boy and girl...it's a cyclical obsession that always spins back into currency at least once every decade.

All those models who were privileged to have an American Vogue sitting with Newton should clutch their tears and weep for joy .

A certain notorious model once told me the best Helmut Newton story ever.

This book cover looks so much like the best album cover Madonna never did.

"We grew up in a world where it was ok to exchange ideas with other people, and it wasn’t so rigid, and it's like what you said about the new wave and punk movement, it was much more raw and tougher and it was about a bunch of people who had something to say. It wasn't so boxed in and so pre-fabricated. It was something very organic and cool and very hard, you know, which is great."

Marc Jacobs in conversation with Maripol, excerpted from Little Red Riding Hood.

Christiane F lives on as an eternal fashion touchstone

The Hiss Squad can't help but hiss that Christiane F is a serious, serious inspiration for that hyper-directional designer this season.

Then there was absolute darkness. The spotlights came back up. And there it was...the cut out white gown. Tom Ford knew!

First up, respect to James Tinnelly for turning me on to the YouTube vid of this Tom Ford Gucci epic. It was opened by Kate (and she ATE her every exit).

Shades of Kate Moss in that legendary "Summer Of Love" The Face edit. PH Joseph Szabo

We all know this strangely beautiful and rather unsettling photograph of a too-young girl having a smoke.

Still from "The Conformist"

The author's haunting photographs are accompanied by his analysis of the architecture of war

"Almost forgotten. The movement, strength and frightening beauty. They are an opposite of orthogonal and vertical structures, an opposite of the urban fabric and architecture of US cities."

A legendary tastemaker in the legendary photograph

TI got a tip today that a certain atelier in Paris has the above portrait of the Vicomtesse de Noailles,

Larry Clark's legendary "Teenaged Lust", unlike "Tulsa" has not been reissued