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On my to-do list this week was a visit to the Design Museum to see the Tim Walker exhibition. In my scrap book of pictures I like, ripped out and collected over the past five years, I recently realised I'd accumulated a bit of a Tim Walker coffee table book (the glue stick in foolscap exercise book edition). Lily Cole amongst giant moths, Karen Elson as a dressed up dolly with oversized toys, Magritte inspired Surrealism with Coco, Sascha in Russia, Lily in India, swans, smashed pastel cars overgrown in wild roses and one from a nineties Italian Vogue with girls jumping over fences and rolling in fields in rainbow coloured tulle. Imaginative, surreal, larger than life, it is everything I love in editorial and photography and it's what gets me excited about fashion in the first place. The retrospective had rooms full of his photographs, his sketch pads and scrap books which were so inspiring, and the mammoth sets from his photographs created by Shona Heath; giant gloves, cameras, toy soldiers, balloons, pink ponies and pastel coloured cats. As a backlash against expressionless models photographed in white boxes, his dream-like scenes bring life, wit and a story to the clothing, the ultimate fashion fantasy. I heart Tim!
On my to-do list this week was a visit to the Design Museum to see the Tim Walker exhibition. In my scrap book of pictures I like, ripped out and collected over the past five years, I recently realised I'd accumulated a bit of a Tim Walker coffee table book (the glue stick in foolscap exercise book edition). Lily Cole amongst giant moths, Karen Elson as a dressed up dolly with oversized toys, Magritte inspired Surrealism with Coco, Sascha in Russia, Lily in India, swans, smashed pastel cars overgrown in wild roses and one from a nineties Italian Vogue with girls jumping over fences and rolling in fields in rainbow coloured tulle. Imaginative, surreal, larger than life, it is everything I love in editorial and photography and it's what gets me excited about fashion in the first place. The retrospective had rooms full of his photographs, his sketch pads and scrap books which were so inspiring, and the mammoth sets from his photographs created by Shona Heath; giant gloves, cameras, toy soldiers, balloons, pink ponies and pastel coloured cats. As a backlash against expressionless models photographed in white boxes, his dream-like scenes bring life, wit and a story to the clothing, the ultimate fashion fantasy. I heart Tim!
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