Ah, the glory of the catfight. Of course, it's only glorious when you're dressed in Lanvin. Perhaps it started with Serena and Blair's comical hair-pulling, purse-grabbing, stilleto-stomping scene in Gossip Girl, or maybe Black Swan's runaway success gave designers a new theme to think about this season. Either way, it's quite riveting, if entirely unrealistic. The woman who has apparently anchored herself to the table does so with no more than an artistic caress of her fingers. And obviously, film and television aside, no one really fights in couture gowns and five-inch snakeskin pumps. All the same, complete, glamorous impracticality is what fashion is all about - and Steven Meisel captured that perfectly in his latest campaign with Kinga Rajzak and Iselin Steiro.
Steven Meisel shoots Gisele Bündchen in two startlingly different portraits for the campaign. One depicts the supermodel in a Kate Moss-esque wig with a color scheme that lends it a vaguely vintage-y appeal. The other shows a barely recognizable Gisele accompanied by an unrecognizable Yuri Pleskun, shot in stark black and white. It might be unconventional, but it isn't particularly riveting or creative. But the true test of a campaign is whether it sells the product, and that remains to be seen this coming February.




