SUNSET STRIP, 1972

Seeing Bogdanovich in the car next to them, Friedkin could not resist the urge for some competitive banter. He stuck his head out of the limo's sunroof and called out a line from a review of The French Connection.

"The most exciting American film in twenty-five years! Eight Oscar nominations and five Oscars!"

Bogdanovich responded in kind. "The Last Picture Show, a film that will revolutionize film history. Eight nominations, and my movie's better than yours."

But Coppola got the last word. He stood up through the sunroof and roared, "The Godfather, a hundred and fifty million dollars!"

For the moment, Coppola had proven that even in those early days, he understood the real language of Hollywood.

-M. Schumacher

STATE OF EMERGENCY

Vogue Italia September 2006
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Model: Hilary Rhoda & Iselin Steiro

CREATING AN AESTHETIC LANGUAGE

"BAD GIRLS" by MIA
Directed by ROMAIN GAVRAS

KATE MOSS IN VOGUE BRAZIL

Testino

ICON

Stills from Black Martini.

CAVALLI

“The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.”

AMERICA REBORN

Belvedere
Shot by Terry Richardson, featuring Young Jeezy

LUXURY

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”
Coco Chanel

SHAME

by Steve McQueen
Starring Michael Fassbender

SOME KIND OF MAJESTY

Some kind of nature,
Some kind of soul.
Sound kind of mixture,
Some kind of gold.
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load.