Lara Stone on Female Photographers

We posted the Lara Stone Interview Mert & Marcus photos and interview on Friday in Private Studio.

Mea culpa. I hadn’t read it until now.

In the politically correct fashion industry, few people speak out candidly. French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld does speak her mind, giving me reason to fawn incessantly over Roitfeld.

I love her lack of hypocrisy.

Lara Stone is also unusually candid, talking about her prior use of alcohol and ambivalence over being the fashion industry’s ‘fat girl’.

When people are honest about the person in the mirror, they sometimes becomes more honest in public. And when you’re driving your own Caddy, candor comes with the territory.

Let’s face facts, Lara Stone resides atop the pyramid.

Interviewing Lara Stone, Marc Jacob asks:

JACOBS: Is there anyone in the fashion world who you really look up to or particularly identify with?

STONE: I guess Carine Roitfeld. We’ve worked together a lot; she’s been a big supporter and helped me along with everything. Also, just the way she does her magazine-she’s not afraid to do things differently or scared to put certain things in her magazine, a bit of controversy. She’s a bit naughty. She likes sexy things.

JACOBS: She’s great; I agree with everything you said about her.

In the prior paragraph, Lara Stone weighs in on women photographers:

STONE: Personally, I don’t like working with female photographers because they seem to never be able to make up their minds about what they want to do-with the exception of Inez because she always knows what she’s doing. But so many times it’s like, “Oh, let’s try this” and “Let’s try that” and “Let’s do this” and “Let’s do that.” It’s like, “For fuck’s sake, woman!” [both laugh] But, you know, every photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don’t want to get bored.

Jezebel — who remains uncharacteristically calm on the subject, perhaps because a woman is talking — lists (lesser-known) female photographers Lara Stone has worked with:  Emma Summerton (for Jaeger, seen above), Camilla Akrans (for Eres, seen below), Katja Rahlwes, Vanina Sorrenti, Sophie Delaporte, Anna Bauer, Carmen Kemmink and Nan Goldin for Vogue Paris.

Personally, I want to ask Lara how it felt to be photographed with a rope around her neck — before Alexander McQueen hanged himself, of course. Some shots never amuse me, even though I totally understand innuendos of sexual surrender. The nude Interview photos by Mert & Marcus are here — very sexy and mostly erotic.

We’re checking out the photos. Back in a few. Anne