Farewell Oliviero Toscani, a superb photographer and artwork director who modified the world via his audacious activism dressed as trend promoting.
I turned conscious of him within the Eighties through his vibrant trend shoots for Benetton utilizing teams of racially various, typically road solid fashions in easy studio settings, styled in layers upon layers by (my outdated boss) Caroline Baker.
However Oliviero Toscani is presumably greatest identified for artwork directing visionary Benetton advert campaigns opening up dialogue round controversial topics akin to AIDS, racial discrimination and faith by that includes provocative, non-fashion pictures of a kissing nun and priest, three uncooked hearts labelled ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘yellow’, and a person dying of AIDS within the arms of his household (beneath).
These campaigns, together with Benetton’s equally unflinching journal Colours have been a part of Toscani’s tenure as Benetton artwork director (from 1982-2000), however extra lastingly, cement his affect as a cultural provocateur 25 years later.
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: Benetton; Caroline Baker (Benetton); Benetton x 3
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