Antonio Lopez Published on 24/04/2017
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Susan Baraz and Antonio Lopez in the early seventies
For KENZO’s Summer ’17 collection, we drew upon the work and legacy of vanguard fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. Lopez’s drawings for Vogue, Interview, and The New York Times brought a postmodern playfulness to bear on Romantic and Art Deco motifs, a signature style through which he explored deeper themes of race and desire. This marriage of visual joy and social utopianism marks an obvious kinship between Lopez’s drawings and KENZO’s spirit, and is celebrated in the use of the artist’s prints in our Summer looks.
In an editorial shot by photographer Alice Neale, Susan Baraz (muse, model, best friend to Lopez and Neale's godmother) presides over the cast as a play-act matriarch, recollecting her memories of Lopez while performing the gestures of family, blurring the lines between fashion photography, fiction, and documentary.
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You know it was a very symbiotic relationship, you know, and um, well, to the very end, actually, to the very, very end.
The last drawing he ever did was of me.
Photographer: Alice Neale
Stylist: Victoire Simonney
Models: Susan Baraz, Kendall @ Nous Model Management, Leila Rahimi @ Wilhelmina, Jake Alan @ Ford Models and Kamran Dhillon.
Make Up: Stacey Nishimoto et Natalie Fält
Hair: Stephen Beaver
Photographer's assistant: Bardley Barnes et Robbie Coral
Stylist's assistant: Virginia Fontaine
Casting Director: Cast Partner
Retouch: Touch Digital
Produced by Slowdance
Special thanks to Susan Baraz, Robert Berman and ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY and Isabella Cassini.