Elegant Lines

Here is the second in my series of fashion editorials inspired by great artists: Amadeus Modigliani (the first was Ingres). Long a favourite artist of mine, for the elegance of his lines and compositions, and the subtle, unusual colour palettes, Modigliani here inspires Sarah Moon, who is incidentally also a favourite photographer of mine.

What beautiful justice she has done to his work, from the painted backdrops to the way the model has been posed, the soft focus and motion blur, and the way the images have been cropped in post-production. Fashion editor Jayne Pickering has done a great job in selecting clothes that suit both the period and Modigliani’s paintings. The model with her elongated nose and neck is a perfect muse too.

These pages are from British Vogue, probably from the early-to-mid 1990s.

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