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Color and Clément Louis, 18, from Lille

The guy is yet another Lookbook style savant.

1. Doc Martens, in boots 2. Cashmere scarves, frip, in scarves 3. Cheap monday slim, in denim pants 4. H&M blazers, in blazers 5. Zara shirt, in shirts (long sleeve)

Except for the pictures below and bottom, all his images are split in two: color and black and white. The fact that his outfits look good either way shows his mastery of shade and texture - that it's not just about the hair. (And what hair!)

1. Leather jacket, $120, in jackets 2. Cheap monday slim, in denim pants 3. Zara scarf, in scarves 4. Zenith camera, in jewelry 5. Shoes leather, frip, in lace-ups

One can see that the way he dresses is a result of his attitude: easy, relaxed, but with just enough flair to remind you that he is fiercer than he looks.

1. Lee cooper bag, mother old school bag 2. Pull over 80's, frip 3. Tartan scarf, frip

1. Grey wool sweater, H&M 2. Lee cooper bag, frip 3. Sneakers shoes, gemo 4. Pocket watch, frip 5. Red claret velvet blazer, frip 6. Grey chapka, Jules, in hats 7. Striped shirt, Zara

What did I say?

1. Jean, H&M, in denim pants 2. Grey shirt, zara, in shirts (long sleeve) 3. Skull scraf, H&M, in scarves 4. Ray-ban wayfarer, in watches 5. Gloves, frip, in gloves

More pictures of Clément Louis from his Deviant Art page

Yes, it appears that he is also a good photographer and artist, much like our previous Lookbook feature, Nouk B. from Germany.

What can I say? Much more underneath his Lookbook page.

Toledo and Toledo

Toledo and Toledo
By Miguel Paolo Celestial
Published in Rogue Magazine, November 2008

There are the usual and now common collaborations between visual artists, fashion designers, architects, and interior and industrial designers, lasting only one or several seasons. Usually the convergence is pure business: to expand the visual language of a brand or to search for new synergies between disciplines to push their limits. The conversation that takes place is often times terse, limited, and in terms of relationships, fixed.

Then there are the rare marriages of heart, mind, and creative sensibility. These blessed occurrences happen less between corporations than between talented individuals, and in the case of artist Ruben Toledo and fashion designer Isabel Toledo, between actual spouses.

Their creative fusion has spanned two decades and covers fashion design, painting, illustration, and even sculpture.

Ruben has designed perfume bottles, mannequins, award statuettes, store windows, scarves, fabrics, dishes, and carpets. He has painted portraits, murals, and album covers...

(Ruben Toledo) is married to fashion not only because he illustrates for brands and magazines, but also because his dreams inspire the clothes of his designer wife, Isabel, who in turn inspires him as his muse. The Toledos are each other’s creative sustenance and are together an artistic force...

Incidentally, Isabel also designs her husband's clothes, lending the minute idiosyncracies she is known for.

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Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

01 Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop, New York. 1947

Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop, New York. 1947

I almost missed the MoMA's exhibition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs at its top floor. At first glance — unlike Irving Penn and Richard Avedon — the pictures did not have an immediate hold on me. But when I approached them, just as with paintings, I became transfixed.

There is a magnetic quality to the images, which appear frozen in motion even if the subjects are in repose. I fell in love with the richness of life that Bresson captured in his photographs, the personality that he prodded from his portraits.

They do not require any words (except of course their titles). Here are scans from the book that was released with the show: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century.