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Chore Damaris by Justin Anderson

A Tribute to Guy Bourdin

| Director/ Richard Burbridge | Ph Director/ Michael Hauptman | Stylist/ Sabina Schreder | Model/ Irina Lazareanu, Alex Nix, Marija @Marilyn |

Guy Bourdin’s color-soaked images ooze a flashy, trashy sex appeal emblematic of the 1980s and that decade’s enduring influence on today’s fashion imagery. Born in 1928, the Parisian photographer was one of the earliest to realize that style was not just a matter of clothes (which tend to feature—ahem—rather scantily in his shoots) but of an intangible sense of allure, mystery and decadence. In his work for French Vogue between the 1950s and 80s, he pioneered a surreal new language for fashion photography, with models in awkward poses and inexplicable situations, often surrounded by disembodied legs (with whole torsos often cropped out of the frame), discarded shoes and out-of-place props like a pig’s head on a platter. It was an alienating and exciting approach, which paved the way for contemporary photographers such as Steven Meisel (whose campaign for Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium perfume, featuring an ecstatically nude Sophie Dahl, caused an uproar in 2000) and Steven Klein (the modern master of fetishistic fashion imagery). To celebrate the release of several volumes of Bourdin’s work this year from Steidl—including the upcoming In Between, out next month—NOWNESS commissioned celebrated fashion photographer Richard Burbridge to create a short film, inspired by Bourdin’s color palette and wicked eye for composition, featuring model Irina Lazareanu. “It was a challenge—to say the least—-for the models,” says Burbridge of his subjects, who were suspended from gymnastics rings dressed in Eres swimsuits and towering Givenchy wedges, with faces done up by NARS makeup artist Francelle. How long did they have to hang tough? “Far longer than they wanted,” Burbridge confides.