Match made in Heaven

Levis's has a new collaboration with Opening Ceremony, and the new spring campaigns are shot by photographer, Ryan McGinley. McGinley has done campaigns for both Levis and Opening Ceremony before. He has models and leaves falling through the sky, a very whimsical feel to them. But strange choice of the autumn themes for their spring collection. The great collaboration is a collection of beautiful unisex, muted corduroy bottoms and tops. I definitely will be getting the unisex navy cords. (Starting at $150...which in retrospect is not that terrible - considering how expensive other collaborations with Opening Ceremony are, such as Christopher Kane, and Penndleton.) Below are the shots from the campaign:

Sam, my love

Again, I must display Sam Haskins. I love his work - his representation of the female nude body was seen as an innovative new turn in fashion photography, when he first came on the scene. I most especially love his use of scenery ultimately relating to the body in his images. He either has landscape in parallel to the human form or attitude- hands down, amazing work. I recently have purchased a photo book of his "Cowboy Kate" series, below are some images I have in my collection on my desktop in the "Sam, my love" folder

Strangely, I sometimes see similarities between Haskins's use of the body and landscape in Ryan McGinley's work as well (below is an example image by him). McGinley has more sense of body movement in his work, but his representation of the sole body with the bare background, touches on several aspects of Haskins's work