Bjorn Iooss Receives Accolades from PDN

For his imagery for the Alex Casertano Fall/Winter 2010-2011 collection, photographer Bjorn Iooss was awarded first place in the advertising category in PDN's "The Look-Where Fashion Meets Art" competition.

Bjorn Iooss in Japanese Vogue

Bjorn Iooss, featured as a contributor to Japanese Vogue, shot several portraits for the September issue.

Alexander Wang

Thakoon

Sophie Theallet

Lauren Santo Domingo

Alex Casertano Look Book

Bjorn Iooss knocking it out...FW 2010 Look Book images for Alex Casertano. Gorgeous.

See more images from the look book and more from Bjorn here.

Colectiva Shows Bjorn Some Love

A nice nod to Bjorn's work over on the Colectiva blog.

180 LA Sings Praises for Photographer Bjorn Iooss

Over two weeks in February, our talented and darling Bjorn Iooss traipsed all over Manhattan shooting a campaign for Sony's Viao Lifestyle PC. Art Buyer Dana Commandatore of 180 LA had this to say about Bjorn in an article on PDN Online:

"Bjorn really understands digital photography and how TV lights affect the subject, and he knows how to take advantage of that instead of complaining about it. I needed someone [for the Sony campaign] who did not require. . .a bunch of assistants. He loved the idea and got some absolutely amazing shots for us. He has a wonderful eye and that really helped him nail this job."


Read the full article (including more accolades for Bjorn) here. Thanks to 180 LA Art Buyer Dana Commandatore for the phone call and an amazing shoot.

Things Making us Late for Work at See Management THIS (ok, LAST) week.

Photo courtesy of Fashionologie

How did we do it? Sleep at dawn, work at nine, extended air kissing sessions, rsvp-ing 'til our nubbly fingers bled KO Flatte Black Nail Polish...the mind boggles.

Tuesday night basically did us in, with THREE parties we couldn't handle missing. Emotionally. Started out relatively intimately at Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld's Louis Vuitton-sponsored, personally curated exhibit of three photographers and close friends of his — PC Valmorbida (boyfriend of Theodora Richards), David Mushegain and Salim Langatta. Beautiful work all around. We ran into our good friend Tate at his space Collective Hardware , which hosted the event, sponsored by Louis Vuitton. He was nice enough to show us around downstairs a little while the gliteratti sipped their warm white. Tate is an amazing special effects makeup artist who specializes in horror- and let us tell you, the boy can turn out a FIERCE demonic baby minotaur. TRUST.

Anywho, we made our way back upstairs and embarked on what felt like and endless night of superstar introductions and really bright lighting that culminated in the formation of a secret society, I Clip You. Don't ask.

S(c)e(n)en: Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Mary-Kate Olson, Mickey Boardman, Erin Wasson, Theodora Richards, Genevieve Jones, Carine Roitfeld, Julia Resoin-Roitfeld, Craig McDean, Dree Hemingway, Bjorn Iooss, John Shegda, Milla Jovovich, Hillary Rhoda, Zoe Kravitz, Alexander Wang, Devon Aoki, Mario Testino, Leigh Lezark (smooch), Jamie Burke, Giselle Bundchen, Tracy Taylor, Natalia Vodianova...aww hell, everyone.

We then tagged along with our crew of fancy friends to the opening of the Adidas SLVR label store opening on Wooster .

Boom boom, click click, kiss kiss, slurp. You know the deal.

S(c)e(n)en: Everybody else.

Lastly, we believe we made it out to the lovely Narciso Rodriguez's After-Party @ Rose Bar at the Gramercy Hotel. We think. It was hard to tell, really. We do know we had the opportunity to meet nightlife impresario Nur Khan. He was such a gentleman. We assume this means we can drop his name every time we make it over. Right? No? Ok.

Photo by ZACH HYMAN for PMc

S(c)e(n)en: A very blurry Kanye West, Leigh Lezark, Claire Danes, Georgio Armani, Chace Crawford, Josh Hartnett, and Julianna Margulies. Who is Juliana Margulies again? For that matter, who are WE??

That was about all we could take for Tuesday night. Fashion week or not, we gotta work to get paid just like everyone else. Ok, not everyone else. Especially not most of the people we hung out with on Tuesday night. Bastards.

Wednesday night was another blur of- ok, Lost. But that s*#t was AMAZING. When are we again????

Thursday night we jetted off to one last little soiree, it was all we could take. Let's just say V Man: male models, Johnny Weir, Hamish Bowles, Cole Mohr, Alexander Wang, and Ellen von Unwerth on ice skates. Here is the proof:


COACDTV: Vman/Ford Men Ice Skating Party from COACD on Vimeo.

What can we say? We were tired. Are tired. Plan on being tired. Until the next one. CALL US- maybe we can all sneak in together?

*AIR KISS*

Bo-DA! Bo-DA! Bo-DA!

Announcing See Management's new Director of Photography, Boda. Kind of like Prince. Or Madonna. He likes to groove to Akon, Ne-yo, and Kanye, is a proud husband and father of three, and he prefers his Chinese dumplings fried rather than steamed.

If you want to book Bjorn Iooss, Christopher Stevenson, Dean Isidro, Erica Michelsen, Giovanni Zaccagnini, Jeffrey Graetsch, Johnny Miller, Karina Taira, Lorin Crosby, or Kristi Blunt (props, not cameras) this is your guy. Boda. B-O-D-A.

Bjorn Iooss Show at Rare Gallery (521 w 26th, ehem ehem)

Bjorn Iooss presented his series of Burlesque photographs in RARE PLUS at Rare Gallery last Thursday and of course we were all there for the opening, keeping the bartenders busy. The collection is entitled Birds of Paradise: Burlesque Portraits and it runs until November 10th. Each portrait offers an intimate look at some of the city's most eclectic burlesque performers. The photographs are as disturbing as they are full of humor and grace, a really special collection not to be missed.

The artist.

An enthusiastic "appreciator" of the arts...

Petra showed up...where were you?

Brent with go-go dancer/pop-diva Lady GaGa.

Marla and April with Albrecht Kunkel, another photographer on our roster...(contact marla[at]seemanagement[dot]com for booking!!)

Shameless plug: Both Bjorn and Albrecht's work can be seen on the See Management website...