Day 6: Fashion Together

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in conversation with Lou Stoppard in Fashion Together, published by Rizzoli

A spread from Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott’s chapter in Fashion Together. Alas and Piggott met in London in 1994. “We started by taking photos of each other. And then once we were bored of each other, we started taking photos of our friends,” says Alas. These personal Polaroids (this page of Alas, opposite page of Piggott) were shot a few years after they met, from about 1998 to 2000.

Kate Moss, shot by Mert & Marcus in London in 2009 for Love magazine.

A spread from Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott’s chapter in Fashion Together. Working Polaroids from Big magazine, 1999 and Missy Rayder shot in 2005 for Pop magazine in Ibiza, where Alas and Piggott lived for many years.

Mert & Marcus, 2011, for a Love magazine story titled “What Lies Beneath.” Piggott says, “Fashion is ever evolving and changing and, as artists, you have to do the same to survive. It’s like a playground. One day I’m playing with glamour, the next day with grunge. It keeps me entertained.”

A spread from Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott’s chapter in Fashion Together

Thom Browne and Stephen Jones in conversation with Lou Stoppard in Fashion Together, published by Rizzoli

A sketch by Stephen Jones for his first collaboration with Thom Browne, for A/W 14. The show featured animal hats and masks

A spread from Thom Browne and Stephen Jones’s chapter in Fashion Together, published by Rizzoli. This spread showcases behind-the-scenes work by Jones for Browne’s A/W 14 show, the pairs first collaboration.

Behind-the-scenes at Thom Browne’s A/W 14 show. Hat by Stephen Jones.

A spread from Thom Browne and Stephen Jones’s chapter in Fashion Together, published by Rizzoli

Thom Browne curated the S/S 2016 issue of A Magazine Curated By, a title that works with a different designer on each new release. Stephen Jones contributed these visuals, made in collaboration with embroidery masters Lesage, which feature archival photographs of Black Ascot. The event occurred in 1910 because King Edward VII, an avid race goer, had died just weeks before. All attendees wore full mourning dress. Jones showed the images to Browne ahead of his F/W 2015 mourning-themed shows. “Since the very start of my life in millinery, these amazing photographs have been a constant source of inspiration. The drama, the silhouettes, the hats!” wrote Jones in the magazine.