"The beauty about work, is work" said the prolific Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. A daughter and granddaughter of generations of architects, decided to break the family tradition staring her fashion career in 1980. Her restless attitude allowed her to design her own global language of fashion which is an authentic revolution against the already established.
Get to know her in this video (Unfortunately there is no translation in English)
The spontaneous use of bright colors, mix and match of textures in patchwork technique, almost a childish spirit in all her designs distinguish her from any other.
Watch her latest Collection presented in Madrid's Fashion Week, Spring 2010
Agatha's design reflects a point of view full of love, humor and optimism, with this extraordinary colors and forms. With this combination she obtains unique and organic elements in all her artworks: textiles, furniture, stationary, technology, women and children fashion. Agatha Ruiz de la Prada believes in a concept of life focused on the smallest details and a world fulfilled with vitality. You may visit her website at www.agatharuizdelaprada.com
Browse through some of her fun products, like her perfume "Beso", carseats, helmets, shoes, backpacks, sunglasses, endless.
Peter Lindbergh is considered one of the great masters of black and white photography, acclaimed for his cinematic images, which have redefined the world of fashion photography with their compelling realism, lack of pretension and ineffable depth of emotion.
Watch scenes taken from the Peter Lindbergh film "Supermodels"
Born on the Polish border of East Germany in 1944, moved to Paris in 1978 to concentrate on high-fashion. There he photographed many top models including Milla Jovovich, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz. Lindbergh's photographs have since appeared in every major fashion magazine published, including Italian, French, British and American Vogue, W, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Stern, and Rolling Stone. Lindbergh is considered to be one of the world's preeminent fashion photographers and is credited with helping create the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s. Visit his website at http://www.peterlindbergh.com/
Learn more about him in this short Nikon special
American Photo Magazine has said: "The most important quality in Peter Lindbergh's fashion photography is a forthright, almost shocking honesty. His models seem to open themselves emotionally to his camera. Amid the artifice, they seem real."
Watch the behind the scenes of Club Monaco's campaign
In 1999 Peter Lindbergh was asked to direct a short film on the subject of his choice. "Inner Voices", a 30 minute drama-documentary on the nature of "Self-expression" in the world of acting, was premiered in Milan and subsequently in New York.
His first book, Ten Women, a black and white portfolio of ten top models of the moment, was published in 1996 and has sold more than 100,000 copies. The second, Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women, a collection of his work from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990 's, was released in 1997. In late April 1999 Peter Lindbergh, a portfolio-style collection of his most recent work, was released by Editions Assouline in Europe and the United States.
Letterpress is the term for the relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.
Letterpress was the normal form of printing text in the west from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg (German goldsmith and printer) in the mid-15th century until the 19th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century.
There is plenty of opportunities to use letterpress today and some wonderful printers around to offer it.
