Save this story Save Story Save this story There are few fashion photographers who can look back over a four-decade career like Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. On November 2 at the CFDA Awards , the organization will honor the pair with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. The prize commemorates their deep impact and contribution to the visual language of the industry.
Both Dutch natives, the two first met while studying at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy before connecting as fashion collaborators in 1986. Over the course of a generation, the wife-and-husband power duo have crafted an experimental, high-energy, and star-powered signature look that spans a long lasting relationship with Björk, advertising work for labels such as Chanel, Miu Miu, and Yohji Yamamoto, and many major magazine editorials, including in the international pages of Vogue .
The duo started contributing to American Vogue in 1995. In a 1996 body-hugging spread titled “Futuristic Fit,” Van Lamsweerde and Matadin were described as up-and-comers utilizing brand-new technology at the forefront of their hyperrealistic creations—they were early adopters of Photoshop’s precursor, Quantel Paintbox. “We wanted to capture a kind of frozen high energy to create a surrealistic effect,” Lamsweerde told Vogue at the time.
As you’ll see in this selection of portraiture and fashion work, their pictures have a joyfully explosive quality. Their palette feels Technicolor, and the sitters seem to take on superpowers, filled with a sense of spirit and motion. Also often a sense of humor; see for example Karlie Kloss with a single caterpillar-like eyebrow. And talk about million dollar smiles—no one gets subjects to say cheese (or kaas, as the case may be) like Inez and Vinoodh.
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 1/22 Karlie Kloss Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , February 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 2/22 FKA Twigs Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , September 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 3/22 Asia Chow, Ian Mellencamp, Georgia May Jagger, Garrett Borns Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 4/22 Cameron Russell Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 5/22 Kendall Jenner Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , November 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 6/22 Xiao Wen Ju Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , July 2014
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 7/22 Caroline Trentini Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , November 2014
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 8/22 Taylor Swift Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue 2019
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 9/22 Sam Smith Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 10/22 Caroline Trentini Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , November 2014
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 11/22 CL Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 12/22 Adriana Lima Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 13/22 Lineisy Montero Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2017
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 14/22 Miranda Kerr Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , October 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 15/22 Maggie Rizer Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , August 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 16/22 Edie Campbell Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2015
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 17/22 Ariel Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2017
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 18/22 Grace Elizabeth Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2017
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 19/22 Sophie Turner Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 20/22 Misha Lindes, Staz Lindes Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , March 2016
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 21/22 Anna Ewers Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2017
Expand Photo: Inez and Vinoodh 22/22 Fei Fei Sun Photographed by Inez and Vinoodh, Vogue , April 2017
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