Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures

For this latest monograph, Rizzoli have pulled together the fashion pictures, which include famous stories for Vogue such as Bathhouse from 1975, Women in the Woods from 1978 and Women in Furs from 1984. However the treasures of this collection are the lesser-known works; pages from magazine Maquillage, hitherto unpublished work for Chanel, portraits of Italian royalty, the Venice Carnival, designer Selina Blow and Russian ballerinas. There is dark humour too – an eerie spread of five models in Mrs Rochester-esque attitudes, complete with ragged gowns and dishevelled hair in an attic, are discovered to be wearing five wedding dresses rejected by Princess Diana.

Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures. / Written by Deborah Turbeville, Introduction by Franca Sozzani.

October, 2011