#robynbeeche

@runwaymagazines || @fashiontextilemuseum (@get_repost) On International Women's Day we celebrate the Museum founder and design pioneer Zandra Rhodes and the photographer Robyn Beeche, who took this portrait in 1981. #iwd2017 #internationalwomensday #zandrarhodes #robynbeeche The Australian photographer Robyn Beeche (1945-2015) documented the post-punk and New Romantic fashion and music scene of 1980s London. Working with experimental make-up artists such as Richard Sharples and Phyllis Cohen, she produced a series of striking pictures capturing the distinctive style of the designer Zandra Rhodes, the director John Water’s 'muse' Divine and her fellow Australian expatriate, the performance artist Leigh Bowery. Attracted to highly creative artists and designers, Robyn Beeche not only went backstage at Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World competition but also recorded the partnership between the late designer and pop music entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood; she was granted exclusive access to photograph their unusual London retail outlets, World’s End and Nostalgia Of Mud, as well as the influential fashion collections the pair presented on catwalks in Paris and London in the early 1980s. Her own creativity encouraged figures from the worlds of fashion, hairdressing and make-up to work together on projects which she would then photograph, with elaborate lighting set-ups, over sessions lasting up to 12 hours. One example is Robyn Beeche’s artwork for the record sleeve of the hit single by the singer and nightlife entrepreneur Steve Strange’s electro-pop group Visage. #robynbeechephotography #zandrarhodesportrait #1981 #pinkhair #selfexpression #australianphotographer #portraitphotography #makeup #womenphotographers #womenfromhistory #SheInspiresMe #officialrunwaymagazine #eleonoradegray #editorinchief #parisnewyorklosangeles #runwaymagazine

With her bright pink hair, theatrical make-up and art jewellery, she has stamped her identity on the international world of fashion. She has designed for clients as diverse as Diana, Princess of Wales, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Kelly Osborne, Ashley Olsen, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. Zandra presents two major collections each year, licenses her distinctive designs to major fashion and beauty labels, and creates breathtaking stage and costume looks for some of the world’s most popular operas. She also makes jewellery, wrapping paper and has amongst other things also collaborated with MAC to produce a limited edition make-up range and is still Picture above: @zandrarhodes herself done by Robyn Beeche in 1985.

Continuously documenting vibrant, opposing worlds from post-punk/new romantic sub-cultures to Hindu ceremonies. The great retrospective of #robynbeeche, currently showing at @blackeyegallery. (at Black eye gallery)

"Ever been to a party in a not very exclusive dress and had that feeling that someone else is bound to be wearing the same thing? Or, maybe, you simply can’t afford more than one dress for the party season. Here are some smart ideas on how to ring the changes with just one number and be the belle of the ball every single time." Photographed by Robyn Beeche. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from 19 Magazine, December 1976. #robynbeeche #19magazine #1970s #strawberrystudio

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