The Sartorialist

Coach has been a really great partner. I really appreciate their sponsorship of my exhibit at James Danziger’s gallery, and the book signing that we will have tonight.

Here is a link to the Legacy Project that I shot. I think it’s really cool how much freedom a company the size of Coach gives to the artists that it works with. I was very happy that they let me cast it entirely from people from the blog.

As you’ll see in the video, I shot this very much the same way I shoot my street stuff. Just me and my subject. No hair and makeup, no assistants, no extra light. It’s what makes working on projects like this fun, because it’s so much like my day to day shooting.

Don’t forget to tweet and Instagram your photos from the signing tonight! Use the hashtag #sartbooksigning, and see you there!

While avoiding getting ready, she read the first ten pages of a Vila-Matas novel hoping to get carried away elsewhere. After slipping off her hands and landing with a thud on the floor, the paperback startled her awake, and the strange notion that she was just having a conversation with the Spanish writer made its way through the sleepy haze. With his subtle accent and in the complicit whispers of two friends gossiping at a wedding, he was trying to convince her that gradually limiting the books he read was a smart move. His life had become cluttered by plot, setting and characterization, and hers would too.

She could now not avoid looking at her shelves without imagining all sorts of things falling out from between the pages of the books she’d read; spiders and a rifle, a gentleman’s reading glasses, knives, a recovering addict’s prison tattoos, a golden retriever, a notebook full of names of French schoolchildren and a host of other fictional bric-a-brac threatened to come alive and flood her tiny city apartment.

This worrying thought would accompany her all the way to the party, where unfortunately, the wealthy and attractive would distract her from her thoughts.

Story by Ivan