Since their first assembly in 1987, photographer Steven Meisel and mannequin Linda Evangelista haven’t solely loved one of many longest friendships within the historical past of style and style pictures— they’ve created pictures that outline a singular second in in style tradition.

Working collectively between 1987 and 2011 they collaborated on initiatives in an period typically thought to be one of the crucial glamorous ever in style; a time when magazines had enormous budgets which they used to help the making of museum-quality pictures.

Now a brand new Artspace & Phaidon limited-edition photographic print of a picture from that second in time is being made obtainable in a strictly restricted version of 25 archive prints plus 10 artist’s proofs.

Steven Meisel: Linda Evangelista, Paris, 1990 (2023) is offered in an opulent black cloth-wrapped clamshell field with a tipped-on picture of the print on the entrance. Restricted to 25, every version comes with a numbered print, a certificates of authenticity (signed by Steven Meisel), and a signed and numbered copy of the e-book Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel (signed by Linda Evangelista and Steven Meisel). Picture measurement: 9.5 W x 13.4 H inches (240 W x 340 H mm) Sheet measurement: 10.8 W x 14.4 H inches (274 W x 366 H mm).

 Steven Meisel: Linda Evangelista, Paris, 1990 (2023)

Though Karl Lagerfeld as soon as described Evangelista as a “Stradivarius of fashions”, the author and writer William Norwich writes within the Phaidon e-book Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel that the supermodel “was by no means a industrial mannequin within the sense that she helped promote cleaning soap, soup, or sugar, she was, and is, a style mannequin and style muse, within the purest sense.”

“Once I got here to work, I got here to play,” Evangelista tells Norwich within the e-book. “I needed a personality, and I needed to be another person. To liberate myself, go into one thing else. I can do something you need me to do, as long as I don’t have to talk.”

But at its core, the connection between Meisel and Evangelista was at all times one in every of collaboration. Meisel liked fashions who might perceive the narrative personae he gave them. And he liked them much more if they might enlarge that personae.

“Once you’re on set, photographers hopefully will talk with you,” Evangelista says. “However Steven doesn’t essentially at all times use phrases. Typically I simply checked out him and knew what he needed. He may tilt his head. I might simply inform. I knew—I do know—what he needs simply by how he checked out me. Steven at all times helps me and offers me confidence, and if you’re feeling assured throughout a shoot, it transports you to do good work in methods you by no means would have in any other case with out that help.”

 Steven Meisel: Linda Evangelista, Paris, 1990 (2023)

Remarkably, in his lengthy profession of forty-plus years—he started working when he was a young person—Steven Meisel has solely participated in a handful of exhibitions devoted to his work.

“Emotionally, it’s very tough for me to take a look at previous work I’ve achieved,” he informed the Wall Avenue Journal in 2015. “It’s both as a result of I have a look at what I might have achieved higher, or I begin crying over the individuals. I’m ridiculously delicate, that’s simply who I’m, so it’s actually powerful for me to take a look at previous photos.”

If you would like to grab this uncommon alternative to personal a museum high quality archival print ensuing from an era-defining creative collaboration, take a more in-depth have a look at Steven Meisel: Linda Evangelista, Paris, 1990 (2023) ) right here.