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From WWD , by Jessica Iredale : If you have opened a fashion magazine, or any magazine for that matter, over the last decade or so, you’ve seen the work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, known in the industry simply as Inez and Vinoodh. The Dutch photographers (partners in work and life) are the creative eyes behind such contemporary imagery as the Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Yohji Yamamoto and Chloé ad campaigns, and editorial work that regularly appears in French Vogue, V, The New York Times and W. Starting Friday, a retrospective of 300 of their photographs from 1985 to 2010, titled “Pretty Much Everything,” will be on view at Amsterdam’s Foam Museum through Sept. 15. Next year, Taschen will expand on the exhibition with an epic tome of 666 photographs accompanied by original fiction by A.M. Homes. Here, van Lamsweerde speaks on behalf of the duo about its work — past, present and future. On being labeled fashion photographers: We love what clothes do to build ...

Iselin Steiro, ph: Cameron Krone, backstage at the Rag & Bone show last night: Reading is one of my favorite pleasures. This summer I read In a Country of Mothers by A.M. Homes at Tobay Beach. After the shows I can't wait to relax with a good book. At this point I don't care if it's literature like Thomas Paine 's " Common Sense " or re-reading Mary Jo Buttafuoco 's " Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know ". Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, carrying the suede bucket tote that inspired Alexander Wang's Dorothy bag, at a book signing with her ex-husband Stan's cousin Magda from the Czech Republic:: Magda : What's to happen? Now that there is freedom in my country my people will read these books and be confused. Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : These books represent different ideas. While you're here there are two books I want you to read. The...