Steven Meisel is fashion’s pre–eminent image-maker—prolific and innovative—visualizing the trends of every season since the 1980s. Along with his ability to cast the faces and characters that come to represent the look of today, Meisel has a prodigious talent for scripting story lines that reflect culture, with an abundant lexicon of photographic styles always at play. Like all truly great image-makers in fashion’s pantheon, Meisel not only depicts fashion; he defines it and gives it cultural resonance. His inspirations are varied, culled from design, architecture, art, cinema and literature.
Between 1988 and 2014, Meisel created every cover and lead editorial for each issue of Vogue Italia and its editor-in-chief, Franca Sozzani. There have been few other photographer-magazine relationships of such long-lasting commitment, innovation and creative support. This collaboration, and Meisel’s editorial work for AmericanVogue, British Vogue, French Vogue, W, Interview, Vanity Fair, and others, has resulted in the most remarkable visual archive of fashion and contemporary style made by any living photographer.
Additionally, each season, Meisel has created many of fashion’s most memorable advertising campaigns, helping to establish significant brand identities through his unique ability to capture and articulate the distinguishing character of clothing. His clients have included Prada, Miu Miu, Loewe, Moschino, Coach, Valentino, Lanvin, Versace, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Dior, Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana.
Meisel has also portrayed our leading actresses and entertainers, defining relationships between celebrity and fashion in the process. Notably, he collaborated with Madonna to create their book, Sex (1992), in which she acted out a lexicon of photography’s sexual tableaux. In 2023, Phaidon published his first retrospective monograph, Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel. With over 190 images spanning twenty-five years, the book celebrates the creative symbiosis between Meisel and one of fashion’s most iconic models.
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