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Nick Knight: Fashion photography badass

Nick Knight: Fashion photography badass

By Sermon PolPublished 2 years ago 4 min read

Fashion photographer Nick Knight has long hands and has been a regular photographer for Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, and Yohji Yamamoto, He has also been in Vogue, i-D, Vanity Fair, Face and Visionaire, Dazed & Confused, and many other major magazines.

He also created the photo of Lady Gaga that went viral on Weibo recently, transforming Thor into a goddess in a second.

Have a crush on a bald girl

In this new century, Nick Knight is the quintessential rich kid. His father was a dashing Royal Air Force officer who later worked as a psychologist for the British Foreign Service, a typical diplomat. My mother was the social princess of the fashion world, never having to go through three or four outfits a day. Fashion is as much a part of Nick Knight's household as mellow rum. At the age of 12, he fell in love with a shaven sister two years older than him. This unwarranted obsession not only led Nick Knight to become obsessed with skinheads but also led him to give up his medical studies and take up a camera because he dreamed of taking gorgeous pictures of his beloved bald girl.

When Nick Knight graduated from photography at Bournemouth College of Art in 1982, he immediately published his first book of photographs. The name, as you might expect, is the cheeky Skinheads. The rambling black-and-white book of youth subcultures was immediately picked up by Tony Jones, the art director of British Vogue, who no longer works at the prestigious magazine but has launched his new fashion magazine, i-D, in London.

The new magazine, only two years old, had its first chief photographer. Three years later, for the fifth-anniversary deluxe edition of i-D, Nick Knight photographed 100 celebrities, including John Galliano before he ran Dior. A year later, Nick Knight went to Paris to shoot a campaign for Yohji Yamamoto, and the trip made him famous as a rising star in fashion photography.

Nick Knight's luck doesn't end there. When John Galliano was promoted to artistic director of Dior in 1997, Nick Knight became the house's exclusive photographer. At Dior's launch party, John Galliano's work was shown off like a Hollywood blockbuster.

"It was global propaganda and it had an incredible impact. We take 12 to 15 pictures at a time and then spend two months polishing every detail. In the end, every pixel is adjusted." "Nick Knight recalled. On top of that, at the age of 27, Nick Knight met his wife and manager Charlotte Wheeler, who wasn't bald.

SHOWstudio for new media

Having made his mark in the fashion world, Nick Knight was restless with his new media art. Thus was born SHOWstudio, a website that allows casual fashion outsiders to peer into the creation of so-called fashion. Everything from music to digital technology has been incorporated into his fashion experiments, and traditional photography has been disrupted beyond recognition.

Best of all, Nick Knight is on fire for saying what many people are hiding in their hearts: photography is over, and the future of fashion belongs to film.

What a harsh sentence!

Despite being a fashion magazine darling, Nick Knight has made no secret of his pessimism about the future of fashion magazines after discovering his three children never touch them. "Alexander Fury, my fashion director, was sitting in the front row with his camera phone, uploading images as the girls walked down the runway. No longer do people have to wait three long months to see the clothes." "Nick Knight said.

During London Fashion Week in 2009, SHOWstudio held a commemorative exhibition called "Fashion Revolution." Supermodel Naomi Campbell, holding two machine guns, took a large picture of Nick Knight's entrance to the exhibition. The supermodel also graciously contributed her prototype, as the nearly 7-meter-tall nude body was on display.

That same year, Nick Knight also opened SHOWstudio's eponymous gallery in London's Bruton Square, selling quirky items like an oversized Looney Tunes ear and print editions of designer Giles Pugh's photos, which are quirky but not cheap. Titanic is making a lot of money in 3D, and Nick Knight is happy to bring 3D technology to his fashion shoots. If it's a new idea, he's got a motor that won't stop.

Satan and Angels

Outside the mainstream, of course, Nick Knight has his off-beat creations, sometimes possessed by Satan and sometimes descended by angels, which make him a genius.

Nick Knight's photo scenes are often filled with twisted, angry faces wielding sticks like demons. This kind of primitive violence is like an unprovoked fire, allowing the anger to burn into the heart of the viewer. In red, white, and black, you see bronzed muscles, white pants, and a splash of red blood. Full of tension and emotion, as if immediately can detonate your boiling point.

On the other hand, Nick Knight has graciousness. Posing for a set of physically challenged models for Dazed & Confused, the Brit is an angelic man who combines business with aesthetics and humanity stunningly and emotionally. "You're not photographing people's bodies, you're photographing people." He said.

He won the Moet & Chandon Fashion Award in France and was even given a huge masquerade. The Golden Hall was haunted by nostalgic sounds of The Beatles' "Come Together" and the Carpenters' "Close to You." Supermodels Kate Moss, Gisele Bundchen, Givenchy menswear design director Ozwald Boateng and Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson were among the fashion industry's biggest names who donned the mysterious mask.

Despite all the appearances, this ruthless character, who has never been afraid to take on the world, continues to complain about the fashion industry. "A small group of people controls this industry, and they're not good." "I don't want to be 80 years old and ask myself, 'When did you ever say the truth? '"

Look! That's how hard it is.

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