Photographs by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features.
Impressive - but in a different way from the Gursky water shots. These pictures from London's Daily Mail show a Canada goose minding a brood of 40 goslings on the Thames river. Although these geese 'creches' - where the offspring of different parents get mixed up - are not uncommon, ornithologists say this is one of the largest they have seen.
Before Marc Jacobs glistened like a Christmas ham against a silver Mylar backdrop to promote his new men's cologne, Bang, Yves Saint Laurent did his own designer Zoolander shoot nearly 40 years ago. Come June 30, a photograph of the now-iconic 1971 black-and-white advert for men's eau de toilette Pour Homme will be up for auction at Christie's in Paris, along with over 60 other images from photographer Jeanloup Sieff. Expected to fetch between $3,000 and $22,000, the once controversial pic is pretty tame compared to the house's more recent fragrance campaigns. Besides Sophie Dahl's breast-clutching, arched-back nude shots for Opium, there's the male full-frontal for M7, conspicuously lacking in strategically placed bottles.
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>> This week seems to the week of designer appointments: Olivier Theyskens partnering with Theory, Christophe Lemaire replacing Jean Paul Gaultier at Hermes, Giles Deacon taking over at Emanuel Ungaro, and now Sarah Burton, head of womenswear design at Alexander McQueen, has been named creative director at the label.
Burton had worked with Lee Alexander McQueen since 1996 and was promoted to her current position at the brand in 2000. She was saddled with completing McQueen’s final collection - the 16 pieces of which were 80 percent finished at the time of the designer's death. Burton said in a statement of her appointment: “The creation of modern, beautifully crafted clothes was at the heart of Lee’s vision. I intend to stay true to his legacy.”
