Juergen, New York, W and TIlda.

A double-dose of Juergen today: first a profile and discussion of his W Magazine fashion shoot in New York Magazine, and second, the pictures and p...

A double-dose of Juergen today: first a profile and discussion of his W Magazine fashion shoot in New York Magazine, and second, the pictures and parse in W itself.

It’s a bit confusing, I admit. We’ll do it by numbers:

1. New York Magazine piece (accompanied by the cutest JT picture I’ve seen yet)

“Juergen Teller, the photographer, has spent much of this summer Tuesday
editing a shoot commissioned by W Magazine about the art world in New
York. The star of the shoot is the 47-year-old actress Tilda Swinton,
who has been dressed up as everyone from an artist to a gallerist to an
insecure collector mid-Botox procedure. She’s accompanied by artists
like Rachel Feinstein and collectors like Renée Rockefeller. The whole
thing looks fairly dark; the lighting is not gentle or flattering, and
if any of the subjects has a pore, or a sagging breast, well, there it
is.

‘Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy,’
Teller says, ‘which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a
heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human
response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.’ “

2. The W fashion piece; Tilda Swinton, Rachel Feinstein, Heather Mnuchin, Renee Rockefeller,
Yvonne Force Villareal and more of W’s favorite fashion icons slip into
fall’s best looks.

“Looking one moment like a Park Avenue matron and the next like a
punked-out artist, Tilda Swinton is doing what she commonly does when
she alights in a city from her home in the Scottish Highlands: gallery
hopping.

But on this particular weekend in New York’s Chelsea, she is portraying
an assortment of über New York women for photographer Juergen Teller.
Inside Barbara Gladstone’s gallery, wearing seven-inch stilettos and a
silk miniskirt, she gets down on the floor and raises herself into a
shoulder stand, jackknifing her legs so that they dangle precipitously.
At Andrea Rosen, her 5-foot-11-inch frame skyrocketing another 10
inches atop platform wedges, she pokes her head between the hairy legs
of one of David Altmejd’s colossal sculptures of giants.”

OK, UM… hmmm. You know, I just don’t see these pictures and think “oooh, let me pick up Fendi’s 24k gold-infused mink jacket (in the picture on the left) or ooh, I must have Ralph Lauren Black Label’s lambskin
pants” (in the picture on the right).