Photographer Shawn Brackbill began using Polaroid cameras and film to shoot fashion last fall during New York Fashion Week, where he discovered the unique emotional bond that the instant film creates with its subjects. “In all of the backstage chaos,” he recalls, “I found that the Polaroid camera really put my subjects at ease. They’re [...]
Author Archives: Erin Dixon
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
February 21, 2011 – 8:15 am
As our coverage of London Fashion Week kicks off in the Style section, we bring you a not-so traditional fashion video shot by Nick Heavican, styled by Dossier Fashion Director Polina Aronova and featuring designs by British fashion giant TOPMAN.
A “Tourist’s” Take on the Koran
January 5, 2011 – 12:31 pm
Aside from news stories cherry picking passages from the Koran, my actual knowledge of the Islamic tomb was previously limited to a two-hour lecture from a cabbie driving me to Heathrow Airport. Regardless of your education level, this TED lecture by author Lesley Hazleton is an interesting, alternative and even humorous look at the literature [...]
Stay Awhile
November 8, 2010 – 6:42 am
Dress, Lindsey Thornburg. Jacket, Camilla and Marc. Boots, LD Tuttle. Necklace, Anndra Neen. A good distance and a reality away from her home in Alberta, Canada, model Meghan Collison—who also appears in the Dossier Issue 6 fashion editorial Major Arcana—combined her rural roots with her current urban existence on a windy beach in Rockaway, Queens. [...]
Don’t Know Much About History?
September 20, 2010 – 9:09 pm
I’m pretty sure I remember hearing something along the lines of, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it,” and, frankly, I don’t think any of us could stomach reliving the ups and down of the past ten years. While at Harvard, a friend of ours, April Lee, came up with a solution: [...]
Coming to America
September 15, 2010 – 10:02 pm
As Fashion Week comes to a close, we bring you a shoot inspired by the designers who arrived in the city with a dream and each season turn it into a reality, forming the eclectic melting pot that is New York fashion. To check out their Spring 2011 creations, take a look at our Fashion [...]
In Conversation with Anndra Neen
September 9, 2010 – 11:35 am
Above images, from left: Annette Stephens and Phoebe Stephens in Anndra Neen jewelry. Photos by Tim Hout. Phoebe and Annette Stephens, the sisters behind jewelry line Anndra Neen, share an admiration for Japanese fashion, a creative pedigree and a propensity for thinking outside the box. Growing up in Mexico City as the granddaughters of progressive [...]
Michelle Lane
September 6, 2010 – 7:26 pm
Jewelry designer Michelle Lane’s video lookbook so perfectly captures the romance of late-summer solitude on the seashore, you can almost taste the salt. Filmed in Stockholm by Paolo Ivana Suhonen of Ivana Helsinki, it features Filippa Berg strolling to a song by Victoria Bergsman of Taken by Trees.
Dossier & Exit Art Event: June 4th
June 1, 2010 – 10:35 am
This Friday, June 4th, we’re co-hosting a preview party for the Exit Art Ecstasy Benefit Auction. Proceeds from the auction—which includes artists like the recently deceased, forever impressive Louise Bourgeois, Alfredo Jaar, Yoko Ono and Swoon—go to support new, adventurous voices who explore and articulate contemporary history: social, political and everything in between. So come get [...]
Four Days of Nan Swid and Donald Kaufman
May 7, 2010 – 8:45 pm
At Gallery 9E in Chelsea, artists Nan Swid and Donald Kaufman mix mediums and creative forces in a four day symposium of color and spatial relations. As the co-namesake of former design agency Swid-Powell Design, Swid’s pieces reflect a practiced multi-dimensional and tactile aesthetic. Employing the objet trouvé techniques of Braque and Rauschenberg, she layers [...]
