When I was asked to shoot these images for Ritz Magazine I was really excited by the opportunity to work with Issey Miyake’s latest sculptural clothes. I love innovation, particularly in design as I come from an art school background. I could immediately see the potential in these incredible clothes. In my imagination I thought Miyake […]
Caroline Coon – Hippies for Harpers – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
The art director of Harpers said me, “There is this really beautiful girl who is writing about alternative culture and we want to do a feature on hippies.” “What’ I said ‘Hippies for Harpers” I was amazed that they would consider doing something that was so trendy. “Her name is Caroline Coon”, he continued “and […]
Loulou de la Falaise & the Unfortunate Incident – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I started photographing the Paris collections in 1972 for British Vogue with the mighty Grace Coddington. For the first night Anne Schaufuss (my great love and muse) had worked all the way through, in those days you could only get the clothes at night and it was truly exhausting for all concerned. Buoyed by the […]
Beauty Photography – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
My assistants placed the improvised cross on my shoulders and helped me down from the top studio down to Beatrice Millers office, where she was conducting a meeting with a dignitary from the National Portrait gallery. Spurred on by tequila I burst into the office, one foot in the bucket of pink yoghurt, which splashed […]
1970s London – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
The wonderful and gifted British Vogue editor Grace Coddington myself, model Anne Schaufuss (my then love and muse) and Willie Christie (my erstwhile assistant) set off early one morning in my custom red Gordon Keeble sports car (with a Chevy engine) for Deauville. It reminds me of Marlon Brando’s remark from On The Waterfront, when […]
July 2018 – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I am delighted to announce my first solo US exhibition at Holden Luntz Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida which to my … More Tom Reynolds art director of the Sunday Times Magazine called me and said “Clive would you like to go to … More The amazing thing about Phil Collins is that for a not […]
fortnum & masons – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
It was a fraught and adventurous shoot, it has to be said, I risked life and limb by hanging over the edge of the top of the spiral staircase, with assistants holding my legs and jeans belt so I didn’t come to an untimely end.
February 2018 – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
My agent Julian Cotton in the late 90s was, like me a huge classical music fan. He phoned late one … More I was in New York City working for Esquire, shooting a series called Rock Gods. I was using a studio … More Cher’s look in Sonny and Cher was that of a very […]
Ellie Saab – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Being in the theatre immediately inspired me (probably wrongly) to enthusiastically instruct the models using clichés such as, “Wonderful my Darling hearts”, “Fabulous my luvvies” and “It’s a triumph!”
Grace Coddington – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Warhol was a man of few words and wielded an antique polaroid camera and insistently took polaroids which he then dropped on the floor, without looking at them. I said ‘Are you going to open the polaroids Andy? He said, ‘No, I like them to cook because the colour becomes more intense.’ I always like […]
Music Master – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
Once we arrived at the Baths I had my assistants set up a flash unit, suspended over the Roman Bath on a boom. This would not have got past health and safety today and I was really nervous incase the boom failed, fell into the water and electrocuted Peter and myself.
Maudie James – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I always like casting shadows in my pictures and not just casting light, which is something that I don’t think people think about closely enough. There is always the moment of the big reveal that has the most incredible power and dynamism. I got a call from the secretary of the legendary British Vogue editor […]
Clive Arrowsmith Photographer – Online blog of acclaimed fashion , celebrity & Ads photographer Clive Arrowsmith
When I discovered them again between shoots, exhibitions and the whirlwind of the photography world. I realised how sensual and slightly androgynous the model is who I think is called Mona but I am not 100 percent sure. I shot these phots on a Linhof 5×4 plate camera for Hearst Magazines – it was a […]
Steven Carey – The Pale Medusa Sessions (2010) – Clive Arrowsmith Photographer
I met Steven Carey when he was a a junior and Leonard’s hair salon. He assisted on a few shoots I did for Leonard with Vogue but I didn’t get to see his creative personality then because Leonard held such sway over things at that time. Inevitably Steven developed and wanted his own salon. He […]