A model poses by Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for Vogue China. Photo: Greg Kadel
Fashion designers have long looked to architecture for inspiration (see Givenchy’s latest collection in honor of Gio Ponti). So it makes sense that fashion magazines have scouted the world for the most iconic, majestic, interesting buildings to compliment the clothing in its pages. From model Lisa Fonssagrives hanging off the Eiffel Tower to Coco Rocha racing across the TWA Terminal’s campus in New York’s JFK Airport, here are some of our favorite architecture-fashion shoots.
Eiffel Tower (1889)
Paris
Designed by Stephen Sauvestre
Vogue, May 1939
Photo by Erwin Blumenfeld
Congresso Nacional (1964)
Brasilia
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer
Raoul Fall/Winter 2011 advertising campaign
Photo: Marcelo Krasilcic
The Glass House (1949)
New Canaan, Connecticut
Designed by Philip Johnson
Vogue, October 2009
Photographed by Annie Liebovitz
Chrysler Building (in background) (1930)
New York City
Designed by William Van Alen
Harper’s Bazaar, July 2009
Photo by Peter Lindbergh
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997)
Bilbao, Spain
Designed by Frank Gehry
Vogue China, August 2009
Photo by Greg Kadel
Vitrahaus (2010)
Weil am Rhein, Germany
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron
ELLE Germany, October 2010
Photo by Pasquale Abbattisata
TWA Terminal Building (1962)
New York City
Designed by Eero Saarinen
Longchamp Spring/Summer 2013 ad campaign
Photo by Max Vadukul
Ministry of Justice (1962)
Brasilia
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer
Glamour
Photo by Nagi Sakai
Stahl House (Case Study House #22) (1959)
Los Angeles
Designed by Pierre Koenig
Fashion Quarterly New Zeland, Summer 2012
Photo by Steven Chee
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2002)
Fort Worth, Texas
Designed by Tadao Ando
enRoute Magazine, December 2012
Photo by Julia Galdo