October 3, 2015
Published in: Avant-Garde
Codie Young captures cartoon couture in ‘Jessica Rabbit’ The Disney Issue by Nhu Xuan Hua, UmnO Magazine, F/W 2015. Liquid fantasy floods the page as each picture seethes with sensuality. Her hour-glass figure is unforgettable in one of the most exquisitely mastered editorials we’ve seen this season. Stylist, Yasmina Benabdelkrim, creates a succulent story wit…
October 14, 2014
Published in: Avant-Garde
Codie Young captures our imagination ‘In a Silent Way’ a story visualized by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia, October 2014. Walker breaks through the walls of wonder in this exquisite piece of avant-garde artistry. The bedlam of beauty wreaks havoc on my mind, as I reach out to find you’ve met my fallen pride. Anguished agony encapsulated in evocative imagery, fashion ta…
March 11, 2014
Published in: Covers
Codie Young is caught inside a dream in ‘Sleepwalker’ by Nhu Xuan Hua for Nasty #4, The Void Issue, Winter 2014. The evolution of disbelief, “Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.” A divine match of purity and passion, to spread your wings and fly is the mark of a true master. Through the willingness of equals, (Stylist)…
November 22, 2013
Published in: Editorials
Codie Young shows us sometimes ‘too much of a good thing is superb’ by Richard Burbridge for i-D Magazine Winter 2013.14. Delivering the definite form of high fashion time travel, Burbridge takes us a step past retro-modern with an extreme version of era amalgamation I’m calling, Future Primitive. A concept that combines the raw essence of one time period with an artisti…
August 12, 2013
Published in: Avant-Garde
Spreading the creative word Daniele & Iango deliver the doctrine of artistic truth in the interpretive series ‘Street Spirit’ for i-D Pre-Fall 2013. Somewhere on a street in New York an eclectic group of artists have gathered to pose in purposeful irreverence to make a symbolic stand for the right of free-expression. It is here, in the beautiful discourse of disharmon…
June 8, 2013
Published in: Editorials
Codie Young leads the modern day grunge movement in ‘Us Against the World Mes Amies’ by Andreas Öhlund for Scandinavia S/S/A/W 2013. Echoing my earlier sentiments about the ever-changing power of the flower, Öhlund illustrates my point with his cool use of blooms scattered throughout the editorial. Far from a hyper-feminine floral effect, (stylist) Oscar Lange’s f…
August 27, 2012
Published in: Avant-Garde
The latest fashion art installation comes from Ben Hassett, in the form of these amazing Beauty Collages, created for the September issue of Vogue Russia. Codie Young’s face is the subject of this surreal exhibit, where various pieces of her torn images are reassembled into modern art. Derived from the French word, à coller (to glue), this century old technique relies on the c…
May 23, 2012
Published in: Beauty
The works of fashion-illustrator René Gruau, are the inspiration for this rebellious attempt at re-imagining the confines of mixed-media, for the June issue of Dazed & Confused. Daniel Jackson blends two-worlds in the futuristic, fashion-fantasy, “A Scanner Darkly.” In this series drawings come to life, having transformed into some mutant chain of fashi…