BALMAIN SS2016 ad campaign shot by Steven Klein for the first time, there was never any question of which direction to take. It was obvious that there was no need for any special installation or any type of lighting tricks - Pascal, Steven and Rousteing knew that the unique combination of Balmain's Spring 2016 designs and these powerful women was more than enough. Therefore, lighting is clean and direct and the women are front and center.
While they shot these images, Rousteing had to smile as he imagined how his adolescent self would have reacted with utter disbelief if someone could have traveled back in time to tell him that one day he would be in a New York studio, watching Steven Klein shoot Cindy, Claudia and Naomi for my Spring 2016 campaign for those four singular talents have inspired him from day one.
When Rousteing was a schoolboy in Bordeaux, it was their editorials that first made clear to him the amazing transformative power of fashion. Still today, many years on, their iconic images are often found amongst the jumble on mood boards in his (and almost every other designers') atelier. To say that working with them was a dream come true is no exaggeration.
According to Rousteing , watching Cindy, Claudia, Naomi and Steven instinctively work together, he was struck by the displays of confidence, professionalism and grace in front of him. There was never any doubt that the final images would be anything but perfect. Looking at them now, he likes to think that perhaps someday these shots might also form part of some future designer's mood board.
Credits:
Creative Director:
Pascal Dangin at KiDS Creative
Photographer:
Steven Klein
Female Talents:
Cindy Crawford
Naomi Campbell
Claudia Schiffer
Hair:
Shay Ashual
Makeup:
Yadim
Set Design:
David White
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