Where's Abbey Lee? Full frontal (again) and channeling Barbarella for Bailey

david bailey for i-D via sinthi/TFS

What do you have when you’re not having angel wings attached for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show? A futuristic editorial shot by iconic British photographer David Bailey. Many fashionwatchers were stunned to find Abbey Lee Kershaw nowhere to be seen in the 2010 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. But that’s not to say she is underexposed this month. In the just-launched Winter 2010 edition of i-D magazine, Kershaw poses full frontal - in an editorial that is, in frockwriter's opinion, more tasteful than the Terry Richardson-lensed story in Purple magazine last year, in which Kershaw also appeared full frontal. The i-D editorial is still provocative. In one shot Kershaw holds up a giant, intentionally phallic, chess pawn to her mouth. And some might argue that the bodypaint shot is as cheesy as anything on the Victoria's Secret runway (given the double wink, we're guessing this may have been a cover test, that was deemed too risqué). The story sees Kershaw reunited in fact with Victoria's Secret stylist Charlotte Stockdale, who kits Kershaw out in some very Barbarella-worthy over-the-knee boots, fetish underwear and orthopaedic accoutrements. In one shot, she is also accompanied by Susie Bick, wife of Australian rocker Nick Cave. One of the shots from this story was used for one of i-D's multiple covers this month (below). Warning: NSFW.

all images above: david bailey for i-D, scanned by sinthi/TFS

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Sydney and Auckland street style in WWD

Street style photography is an enormous component of the fashion blogosphere, which has in fact launched blogging empires (The Sartorialist and Jak + Jil to name but a few). This photoreportage genre however definitely predates the net. Bill Cunningham’s first street style shots were published in The New York Times in 1978, but he first began documenting the fashion choices of ordinary people on the street during WWII. British style magazine i-D has a 30 year archive of its signature street style shots - aka “Straight-Ups” - on its website. And WWD, where Cunningham worked briefly, has had its own longstanding series of street style shots called They Are Wearing. As the paper's Australasian correspondent since 1996, I have shot quite a few “TAWs” in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Seoul and Taipei for WWD FAST and (Fairchild News Service's now defunct menswear paper) DNR. During the Spring/Summer 2011 show season WWD kicked off a series of global TAW galleries in the 'Eye Scoop' section and yesterday two of mine went up, both shot last month. Here is the Sydney gallery and here is the Auckland one, which was shot around Vulcan Lane during New Zealand Fashion Week. Not including this random shot, above, which was taken for WWD FAST at Sydney's Glenmore Road, Paddington intersection in May this year. Perhaps you might recognise some of your mates.