[j'adorekapusta]

I've searched through TFS and was quite amazed to not find a thread on Anna Cockburn who had a great impact in promoting grunge movement in the 90s. With the likes of Craig McDean, Melanie Ward and Kate Moss they propelled British fashion scene back then.
It'd be great if someone could submit Anna's work in the thread.

[j'adorekapusta]

Quote:

Anna Cockburn described in interview how she became a stylist: I did two years of fine art at Central St Martins, but I knew I wasn't going to paint. I was much more interested in making images, so I left and worked as an assistant to a fashion photographer, knowing nothing much about fashion. For six months it was a bit of a nightmare. Then I got a job at Joseph (the designer fashion retailer) and it was interesting to me because of the contact with customers. I became more conscious of clothes and the personal thing of helping the customer to choose. At that stage I didn't know what a stylist was. But I wanted a change and heard there was possibly some work at Harpers and Queen, assistant to the fashion editor, and I got the job. During this time I was working in a pub during the evening to pay my bills. At Harpers I found myself with six pages and whether it was a collection I saw, a film or a dream, or a painting, it was the idea that was important... The stylist and the photographer can both be mavericks and it works. I got promoted to Junior Fashion Editor in 1988/9 and then the recession hit and it all became more commercial, you were forced to be less creative. I went to Elle and I was on Best Buys with cheaper clothes and of course I tried to make it good with the best photographers, but there was a lot of pressure and I didn't really settle down. I then spent a year in America on various projects, came back as contributing fashion editor at Vogue... it was a bit disappointing because everything had to be agreed and approved, from the models to the photographers it was all done at the level of 'house style'. Since then I have been completely freelance. The agent, Camillla Lowther, calls me up and says there is a job here or there. At the same time, right through this whole period I have worked for The Face and i-D who don't pay but it is exposure and it's advertising for people like myself and the photographers who I've worked with for them. It always costs me, but it's worth it for the freedom, the exposure and the space. They are also generous with the credits which are more visible and bold.

Excerpt from British fashion design: rag trade or image industry? by Angela McRobbie

[j'adorekapusta]

Anna's work was mentioned in an article on Big Magazine published in the Independent in 2001:

Quote:

It is, surely, a sign of these non-fashionable times that stylists, too, equally desperate to broaden their portfolios, chose hyper-real diary-style shoots over polished yet banal fashion productions of models in designer clothes. Jane How cast pupils from Sylvia Young's stage school for Richard Bush to photograph, which Ellis, after he saw the results, decided to call "Stars in their Eyes", after the television game show. Meanwhile, Anna Cockburn, perhaps the most influential of all fashion stylists, chose, with photographer Nigel Shaffran, to shoot a variety of garden centres hardly the most obviously glamorous or fashionable of subjects.

source independent.co.uk

[j'adorekapusta]

Elle March 1993
Photographer David Sims
Stylist Anna Cockburn



source jackyblue.com

[kasper!]

http://ellastica.blogspot.com/2010/05/sensual-world.html

I remember her because this ed(by David Sims) is my favourite Bazaar US ed in the 00's.Sorry currently I'm too lazy to upload them to the image host site...

[ellastica]

Harper's Bazaar c. 2002
Photographer ~ David Sims
Fashion Editor~ Anna Cockburn
Make-up ~ Peter Philips
Hair ~ Malcolm Edwards




my scans

[ellastica]

Mademoiselle contributors page, c. 1993

my scan

[nyc_art_style]

I just learned about her today. I was pretty impressed with her work that is in the David Sims thread. I can't wait to see more.

[ellastica]

Mademoiselle December 1993
Photographer ~ Patrik Andersson
Model ~ Daniela Pestova
Fashion Editor ~ Anna Cockburn
Make-up ~ Diane Kendal
Hair ~ Michel Aleman

ellastica scans

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Noir at Night
Harper’s Bazaar September 2002
Photographer ~ David Sims
Models ~ Christina Krastecvoa, Diane?, Ives Kolling, Ingrid Parewijck, & Yana V. ?
Fashion Editor ~ Anna Cockburn
Make-up ~ Polly Osmond
Hair ~ Malcolm Edwards



ellastica scans

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Play For Today
THE FACE November 1995
Photographer: David Sims
Model: Emma Balfour
Fashion Editor: Anna Cockburn
Make-up: Miranda Joyce
Hair: Guido




GinAndTonic scans

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Blue Peter
THE FACE January 1997
Photographer: David Sims
Model: Jayne Windsor
Fashion Editor: Anna Cockburn
Make-up: Miranda Joyce
Hair: Guido




GinAndTonic scans

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" Girl "
I-D July 1999
Photographer: David Sims
Model: Bridget Hall
Fashion Editor: Anna Cockburn
Hair: Guido Palau

Pipoca scans

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" The Urgent Issue"
i-D magazine January 1994
Photographer: Steven Klein
Model: Veronica Webb
Journalist: June Joseph
Fashion Editor: Anna Cockburn
Hair: Edris
Make-up: James Kaliardos


sources: idmagazinearchive.blogspot ( cover ) & omifan9 ( ed )

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" The Cheeky Issue"
i-D December 1998
Photographer: David Sims
Model: Gisele Bundchen
Stylist: Anna Cockburn
Hair: Guido
Make-up: Linda Cantello





sources: i-donline.com & Leonardo scan