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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Iman & David Bowie / That Something Called Love
Iman & David Bowie
THAT SOMETHING CALLED LOVE
When one of music’s most influential and creative rockstars and a pioneering strikingly beautiful African-American model met in 1992 at a date set up by their common hairdresser, it could have led to a glamorous encounter, a rapid sexy relationship but instead, it was transformed into a romantic marital existence. Even though they are not a superstar couple in the same way as contemporary pop and films stars that fuel their celebrity with a perfectly marketed love story, David Bowie and Iman did however manage to gain an iconic aura thanks to their ability of leading a normal intimacy and finding success in their very own individual careers. No need for an expensive mise en scène, tabloids covers or reality television shows, the couple diffuses its own magnetic feel as David Bowie clearly states: ‘You would think that a rockstar being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is’.
THE RED LIST
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Iman / 'I'm Not A Model Anymore. I'm Just Me'
| Iman |
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Iman / 'I am the face of a refugee'
| Iman_Photograph Photo by Platon |
Iman is the Somalian exile whose fierce spirit drove her to become the world's first black supermodel. Now she's working to bring health and education to her homeland. She talks to Carole Cadwalladr about racism in modelling – and a secret holiday in London with her husband, David Bowie
Carole Cadwalladr
Sunday 29 June 2014 00.04 BST
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t's a warm early summer day in New York, and at a fashionable photographer's studio in fashionable Soho Iman is having her portrait taken. On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon, the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
All the greats are here: Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Muammar Gaddafi. And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions. "That's GORGEOUS, sweetheart. That's right, turn your chin just very slightly. Thank you, darling. That's fucking BEAUTIFUL!"
It's 24 years since Iman retired from modelling, but you'd never know it. She's a completely unlikely looking 58 and is sitting in front of a stark all-white backdrop simply dressed all in black – black jeans and a black jumper that emphasises her extraordinary swan-like neck – and she is completely focused. Two assistants move in to adjust the lights and Platon crouches down to whisper his next set of instructions. "I want to see your compassion, that's what this is all about. And your bravery. Show me that brave, brave woman. Show me that with your eyes."
Iman / Children are dying before our eyes, and we can stop it
| Iman, 1994 Photo by Terry O'Neill |
Iman
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Iman on David Bowie: ‘I didn't want to get into a relationship with somebody like him’
| Iman and David Bowie |
The former model and charity campaigner gives a rare insight into her marriage with the most famous man in music
While it may have been love at first sight for David Bowie when he met his now wife, the philanthropist and former model Iman wasn’t convinced.
The musician has previously said he “was naming the children the first night we met”.
| David Bowie and Iman |
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