Gavin Bond: Being There

Gavin Bond is now one of the world's top commercial photographers. However, at the very beginning of the 1990's, young Gavin was a student at Saint Martins, studying fashion. Following up on an invite from Vivienne Westwood, he took up a camera and started shooting. For the best part of the nineties, Gavin photographed the backstage areas of the shows in London and Paris: Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaïa, Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel...

Cover star Christy Turlington writes the introduction.

"Gavin Bond appeared on the scene one day, as if, for all the world, he had always been there. If it was good with Vivienne Westwood, we thought, it would be good with the rest of us." Christy Turlington

From Idea Books Being There is an unseen visual history of nineties fashion designed and produced to evoke the glossy, classic fashion photography books of the time.

Title: Being There
Publisher: IDEA, 2022
Author: Chrsity Turlington (Introduction), Philippe Garner (Forward)
Photographer: Gavin Bond
Graphic Design: Karla Jarvinen
Format: Hardcover
Size: 32.5 x 24 cm, 268 pages
Edition: 1500 copies