"East of Eden" lensed by Mert & Marcus

Revisited: “East of Eden” lensed by Mert & Marcus. The most radical statement of the season is also the most traditional. Don a kimono and let the drama unfold. -  W Magazine March 2013. 

Source: W Magazine. March 2013

http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2013/03/geisha-inspired-spring-fashion-ss/photos/slide/1

Styled by: Edward Enninful

Behind the Scene: 

http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2014/10/east-of-eden-edward-enninful-w-stories/

Models: Yumi Lambert, Xiao Wen, Ondria Hardin, Saskia De Brauw

 

"Go East" lensed by Steven Meisel

Revisited: “China: Through The Looking Glass”. In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Vogue explored Western pop culture’s depictions of China throughout film and fashion. The exhibition explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and the Department of Asian Art, high fashion is juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, including films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery. Through the looking glass of fashion, designers conjoin disparate stylistic references into a pastiche of Chinese aesthetic and cultural traditions.

Source:

Metropolitan Museum of Arts 

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/china-through-the-looking-glass

Vogue

http://www.vogue.com/slideshow/13255043/2015-met-costume-exhibit-china-through-the-looking-glass-dresses/

Model: Sun Sun Fei

"China Girls" lensed by Mert & Marcus

“China Girls”, a provocative 1920‘s inspired editorial from Interview magazine lensed by Mert & Marcus: fashion photography's reigning auteurs.  

Their photographs encompass a wide range of styles and influences. What they tend to have in common, besides a digitized glaze, is a fascination with a certain kind of woman. “A woman that’s quite sexually charged, confident, not too over the top… women with a meaning, a you-don’t-have-to-talk-or-move-too-much-to-tell-who-you-are kind of woman… Even if the subject is innocence, I like to see something powerful” - Mert and Marcus

Source: 

https://models.com/work/interview-by-china-girls

http://www.fordmodelsblog.com/editorials/tao-okamoto-crystal-renn-interview-march-2011/

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/27/the-shoot

 

Models: Tao Okamoto, Fei Fei Sun, Kristina Salinovic, Crystal Renn

 

 

"Maximum Bandra" lensed by Bharat Sikka

On the rise: India has entered a new state of existence – spirited, spunky and raring to go. It’s where the winds of change blow strongest – but not at the risk of uprooting traditions. Bharat Sikka captured the Indian beauty in Bandra, an electric pocket of cool in the heart of Mumbai, where the heritage and the hipster come together in a magical tableau.

Source:

Bharat Sikka  http://www.bharatsikka.com/

Vogue India 

Model: Bhumika Arora

 

"Beyond Borders" by Ruven Afanador

Ruven Afanador, a photographer of limitless imagination, powerful vision and profound sense of self. His work is distinguished by an opulent classicism nuanced by an irreverent point of view. His idiosyncratic visual language is informed by the fierce emotion and lavish style of his Latin American heritage, filtered by an exquisitely mannered elegance saturated with singular erotic charge.

Source:

Ruven Afanador http://ruvenafanador.com/

Vogue India Feb 2016

Model: Bhumika Arora

"Emperor" lensed by Kenneth Lam

Having lived in both the East and West and inspired by aesthetic, social and cultural contrasts… I always get inspired by a location then it follows with culture, heritage and life itself. I like creating images which say something about myself or someone else. - Kenneth Lam

Source: 

Kenneth Lam, SCMP (South China Morning Post)

http://www.kenneth-lam.com/

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/fashion-luxury/article/1931423/fashion-shoot-push-boundaries-oriental

Model: Anthony Thornburg

Love in Tibet lensed by Yin Chao

Yin Chao thinks photography is not only his work and passion, but through the photography he can express all sorts of attitudes, from fashion and lifestyle, to affection, love and friendship... He makes each shoot a memorable experience, skillfully capturing the ambience and integral elements of each live situation made available to him.

Source: 

Marie Clair China October 2015

http://www.superyinchao.com/#/yinchao

http://models.com/work/marie-claire-china-born-for-love---in-tibet/425511

 

Model: Meng Zheng

Seven Days in Tibet lensed by Nicoline Patricia Malina

Her photographic aesthetic is distinctive; rich colors and impeccable sense of details dominate the scene, combined with raw and cinematic black and white. From natural landscape to a tiny hotel rooms, she makes them all appear as if they are sets which have been specifically constructed for the shoot taking place. Seven Days in Tibet for Harper's Bazaar Indonesia.

Source: http://venue.vze.com, Harper's Bazaar Indonesia

Model: Zhang Fan

China Life Story lensed by Matthieu Belin

Fashion Story in Kashgar, China

Photographer Matthieu Belin in collaboration with 生活 China Life Magazine have created this project which intends to bring fashion out of the studio to revive the authentic colors of China and its diversity. Through these stories across symbolic and distinctive locations, he explores China in its various landscapes and cityscapes in sensual and emotional fashion photographic fictions. Models evolve as a living art form embodying emotions in relation to realistic Chinese sceneries, defining an artistic and poetic interpretation of a Chinese contemporary dramaturgy.

Source:  

www/creativeboom.com

www.matthieubelin.com

 

Tao Ma

Although I believe my work is basically optimistic, I would like people to view my photographs with an open mind. My images say far more than I could say in words. I believe in photography as a way of exploring the possibilities of man. - Tao Ma

Source: http://www.mataotaoma.com/

Model: Daichi Nakanishi