Neil Kirk in Vogue

Vivienne Kirk styled numerous fashion and beauty advertising campaigns from high-street stores to international designers in the 1990s, along with A-list celebrities, including Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, Keira Knightly, the Spice Girls, Gary Oldman and Kate Moss. Iain R Webb is a writer, curator and Professor of Fashion & Design at Kingston School of Art. He studied Fashion Design at St Martin’s School of Art (1977-1980), going on to become fashion editor/director of BLITZ, London Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, The Times and Elle. Webb is author of As Seen in BLITZ, Vogue Colouring Book and Rebel Stylist, among others. Curatorial projects include exhibitions at ICA, RCA, MoBA Biennale, Somerset House, Drawing Projects UK, The Bowes, Fashion Museum, Bath and V&A Dundee.

"""Vivienne Kirk has now co-authored with writer and curator Iain R. Webb Neil Kirk in Vogue, The Supermodel Years, ACC Art Books a wonderfully kinetic, joyful, and gorgeous tribute to Kirk’s work for just about every edition of Vogue. It’s impossible to imagine the wrangling of getting all of these images in one book, snappily art directed by Rita Sowins. Yet there they are, thanks to former publishing executive Liz Rees-Jones, who along with Kirk and Webb miracle worked it into existence.""""For much of this book, Kirk’s models, true to the times, are majorly coiffured, majorly bejeweled, and majorly power-suited. Yet in his images they carried all that off as if they were in jeans and tees, like his test Polaroid of a black-clad, wasp-waisted Cindy Crawford confidently leaping into the frame with all the physical control of an athlete. His models were forever go-go-going.""""book is a labor of love, for sure, but also a testament of love. Webb adores Kirk’s early work; Vivienne Kirk mentions how her husband’s lesser-known menswear shoots, which vibrate with color, and peopled by male models who look like they’d be at home in 1930s Hollywood, are some of her favourites because they’re much lesser known.""" - Vogue.com