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The Face Magazine: Culture Shift review – rebellious fashion photography with a raucous sense of fun


The style monthly was loud, left-field and unabashedly British. The 200 images from 50 photographers on show reflect its furious energy and explosive creative couplings

A fashion image shot by Norbert Schoerner and styled by Greg Fay and Justin Laurie sees the chiseled model Rufus Jordan in a sharp suit and cufflinks, with a Tesco bag over his head. “The cufflinks came from a man who drank in my Dad’s pub.” Unorthodox approaches were encouraged – in one shoot, Nigel Shafran cycled around London with a bag of fake Louis Vuitton clothes and asked people in the street to put them on. The second was the closer collaborations it fostered between photographers and stylists: explosive creative couplings like the late Judy Blame and Jean-Baptiste Mondino; Melanie Ward and Corinne Day; Isabella Blow and Sean Ellis.

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