Spanning the primary twenty years of the twenty first century, from 2000 to 2019, the e-book options photos commissioned by Vogue’s world editorial director, Anna Wintour, and styled by journal stalwarts corresponding to Posnick, Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, and Camilla Nickerson. Klein’s topics, too, are nothing in need of style legends—amongst them supermodels Gisele Bündchen, Karen Elson, Linda Evangelista, Karlie Kloss, Angela Lindvall, Carolyn Murphy, Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, Caroline Trentini, Christy Turlington, Amber Valletta, and Daria Werbowy—with pop-culture giants like Nicki Minaj and Dita von Teese stirred in for good measure.
“I keep in mind early on, folks didn’t fairly know what to do with my work,” Klein writes within the e-book’s introduction. “It didn’t match into the polished, high-gloss fantasy that style magazines usually promote. My work had blood in it. Bruises. Energy video games. Isolation. It had the texture of surveillance footage or a scene from a movie you weren’t supposed to look at. Anna Wintour acquired it. She understood that style, at its finest, ought to disturb the floor. It ought to problem the best way we see, the best way we outline style.”
As Wintour herself places it in Steven Klein: Vogue, “With Steven Klein, you’ll give him a costume, and he’ll offer you a lady with a costume with a robotic in a backyard. It’s intelligent, conceptual, and in the end lyrical.”
Herewith, forward of the e-book’s launch, a number of the simple images that make up Steven Klein: Vogue.
