antonio lopez

jerry hall, 1974

jerry hall, nyc, 1978

blue water series: pat cleveland, 1975

antonio lopez & jerry hall in their paris apartment photographed by norman parkison for british vogue, ca. 1975

illustration of carol labrie, 1971

tina chow in her fortuny collection, london, 1977 

jessica lange, 1970s

men in shower series: karl lagerfeld, nyc, 1976

illustration of maria snyder, 1983

yves saint laurent, marina schiano, jerry hall & pierre berge, 1977

candy bar wrapper series: rita tellone, ca. 1976

grace coddington & jerry hall, jamaica, 1975

illustration, billy & pat

antonio lopez & jane forth in his carnegie hall studio, 1968

jerry hall, ca. 1970s

red coat series: grace jones, paris, 1975

ribbon series, nyc, 1977

i can't tell you how much his imagery & illustrations inspired & influenced me growing up.  you literally could not open a fashion magazine without seeing his work.  (i guess the italian vogue story earlier today made me a little nostalgic!

jean-paul goude

grace jones revised & updated, new york, 1978

wild things, naomi campbell, harper's bazaar, 2009 

42nd street, sex shop, 1978

miguel & friends, 1975

estella warren, french elle, 1996

georgette louison kala-lobe, paris, 1984

farida khelfa, paris, 1985

la blanche, grace jones, paris, 1983

carolina beaumont, new york, 1976

bjork, mixte magazine, 2007

béatrice dalle for azzedine alaïa, 1998

grace in a cage, roseland ballroom, new york, 1978

the hughes brothers, new york, 1975

azzedine et farida, 1984

wild things, naomi campbell, harper's bazaar, 2009

four ethnic groups: blacks, watts, 1975

four ethnic groups: gays, new york, 1975

hispanic chic: andy & paloma

imagine that most of this was done pre photoshop. back in the day when one had to be creative and inventive.  i miss those days.

r.i.p. eiko ishioka

bram stoker's dracula

the fall

the cell

grace jones, hurricane tour

bjork, cocoon

the amazingly talented designer eiko ishioka died of pancreatic cancer on saturday in tokyo. she was 73. she earned both an oscar & a grammy for her work.

she trained as a graphic designer & was considered the foremost art director in the world. she won the academy award for costume design in 1992 for bram stoker's dracula, directed by francis ford coppola.  if you haven't seen her work in this film it's a must - the costumes are beyond brilliant.

ms. ishioka was closely associated with director tarsem singh, for whom she designed costumes for four films. for the cell, starring jennifer lopez, she designed a headpiece that resembled a cross between a rigid neck brace & a forbidding bird cage. "jennifer asked me if i could make it more comfortable," ms. ishioka told the ottawa citizen in 2000, "but i said, 'no, you're supposed to be tortured'." she also worked on the fall, immortals & mirror, mirror with singh.

on the broadway stage, ms. isioka designed sets & costumes for david henry hwang's 1988 drama m. butterfly, for which she earned 2 tony nominations & more recently, costumes for the musical spider-man: turn off the dark.

she won a grammy in 1986 for her design of mile davis's album "tutu". a must see is her work for japanese boutique stores, parco.  they included nude or nearly nude models - a rarity in japan at the time. many of the ads rarely depicted anything sold at parco. she did a GENIUS commercial for them starring faye dunaway peeling & eating a hard-boiled egg.

her other work included designing uniforms & outerwear for the swiss, canadian, japanese & spanish teams a the 2002 winter olympics in salt lake city. she was also the director of costume design at the opening ceremony of the 2008 summer olympics in bejing. she designed costumes for cirque du soleil's "varekai" & was the visual artistic director of the illusionist david copperfield's 1996 broadway show.

she also designed costumes for grace jone's hurricane tour - i saw this show & the costumes were just beyond.  she also directed bjork's music video for cocoon.

a sad loss. 

this is how you do it

grace jones, 62. ah-mazing!

isn't she pretty in pink?

rose cordero as grace jones for french vogue.