Purple Magazine
— F/W 2011 issue 16

Lindsey Wixson in New Jersey

photography by TERRY RICHARDSON
art direction by OLIVIER ZAHM
style by CAROLINE GAIMARI

 

One of the most famous fashion photographs of the Second World War was taken by Cecil Beaton in 1945. It shows a beautiful model posing in the rubble of a bombed-out London building. Beaton’s picture was a prototype for a type of fashion photograph that contrasted expensive high fashion with social devastation, impoverished urban landscapes, and squalid streets. This contrast reinforces the beauty of the model and the sophistication of the clothes. But it also highlights overwhelming social inequality.

To showcase the Fall / Winter 2011-12 collections we drove with Terry Richardson a few miles outside of New York City, where Terry photographed Lindsey Wixson in a suburban New Jersey landscape bestrewn with refuse and marred with crack dens, a place with walls covered in graffiti and advertisements for bail bonds, divorce lawyers, conflict therapists, and post-war stress clinics.

Only a few minutes out of New York City we found the dark side of the American Dream. But for fashion’s rising star, young Lindsey Wixson, the bright side of the dream can still come true.

 

Lindsey Wixson @ MARILYN, model — Dennis Lanni @ ART DEPARTMENT, hair — Frank B @ THE WALL GROUP, make-up — Alicia Torello @ THE WALL GROUP, manicurist — Seth Goldfarb, studio manager — Glen Fabian, digital technician — David Swanson and Nicole Tappa, photographer’s assistants — Karla Guevara, stylist’s assistant — Maki Hasegawa, make-up assistant

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F/W 2011 issue 16

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purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple NAKED

purple PHILOSOPHY

purple NIGHT

purple WINTER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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