Kevin Langley

You see high fashion where you expect to see high fashion, in these circumstances it can turn from avant-garde and become the norm. Photographer Kevin Langley looks at what happens when you take the high fashion to places where it is unexpected, where these designs can once again become avant-garde. Looking at the work by Mario Sorrenti and Steven Klein, Kevin’s work was inspired by the way they use fashion photography to portray a central concept throughout the images from the model and clothes to location and shooting style. The concept for Kevin’s shoot is based around the principal of dehumanisation and alienation. So that this theme would run throughout the images he used futuristic fashion designs, by Alex Oliver, that would alienate the model in the way that they have been designed. Shooting the images on locations where high fashion design would be seen as unusual, and using the awkward and severe angles produced by the model continues this cycle of dehumanisation. In turn the location of the shoot alienates the avant-garde fashion and creates conflict due to the high fashion being taken and put against the stark London locations.