Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton was an English Fashion and Portrait photographer. He also designed book jackets and costumes for charity matinees, learning the professional craft of photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray, until Vogue took him on regularly in 1927.

He also set up his own studio, and one of his earliest clients and, later, best friends was Stephen Tennant; Beaton's photographs of Tennant and his circle are considered some of the best representations of the Bright Young People of the twenties and thirties.

He was a photographer for the British edition of Vogue in 1931. Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood.

Beaton was never known as a highly skilled technical photographer, and instead focused on staging a compelling model or scene and looking for the perfect shutter- release moment.

Beaton often photographed the Royal Family for official publication.

Cecil Beaton was in love with the worlds of high glamour, society and theatre and was very attuned to changes within fashion.

Beauty in his hands was transformed into elegance, fantasy, romance and charm.

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle’s photography career began in the 1980’s in New York City galleries. After attending the North Carolina School of Arts, he moved to New York where he enrolled at both the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts. With shows at 303 Gallery, Trabia McAffee and others, his work caught the eye of his hero Andy Warhol and the editors of Interview Magazine, who offered him his first professional photography job.

David LaChapelle works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style. LaChapelle's work has been described as surrealist, grotesque, shocking and ironic. Ingrid Sischy, long-time editor of Interview magazine, has said there are three main aspects to his "strong and individualistic" photography: a sense of humour, political awareness and social awareness. His use of celebrities exaggerates aspects of their personalities and their personal lives. He has directed advertisements for major brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Lavazza, Nokia, L'Oréal, Diesel, and Burger King.

Vogue Italia

Owned by Condé Nast International, Vogue Italia is the least commercial of all editions of Vogue magazine and has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. It’s imagery is frequently shocking and provocative; according to the art director of British Vogue, it’s photographs "go beyond straight fashion to be about art and ideas".Vogue Italia was established in 1964.Vogue Italia and the Italian fashion industry have historically had a symbiotic relationship, with Vogue Italia contributing to Milan's domination of the fashion world. Vogue Italia is released monthly and the current editor is Franca Sozzani.

Recent influential editorials have included Steven Meisel's September 2006 "State of Emergency", a visual play on the War on Terror and Meisel's July 2007 "Rehab", addressing recent celebrity visits to rehab clinics and the August 2010 Issue, featuring KristenMcMenamy shooting on the site of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The magazine claimed to showcase black models in response to anger caused by the disinclination of fashion magazines to display black models on their covers. Fashion industry insiders claim black models are featured less often because they are unable to sell. This statement, along with the formation of a protest group in New York that challenges racism in the industry, convinced Italian Vogue's editor, Franca Sozzani to create this issue. became the highest selling issues of Italian Vogue ever, and had run out of print twice, which marked the first time in Condé Nast history that the magazine reprinted an issue to satisfy demand. The reprinted copies had the tag lines: "Most Wanted Issue Ever" and "First Reprint" banded across the front.