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We love Steven Meisel for pushing the boundaries and now we love him even more for taking risks.

Next month V Magazine will be publishing a very sexy photoshoot, which was originally shot for Vogue Italy, but rejected by the Italian magazine.  They refused to run Meisel’s recent shoot, which was inspired by ‘dogging’, the British term for engaging in sexually explicit acts in semi-public places, like cars or movie theaters.

As Art + Commerce claims, this limited edition of 1000 jigsaw puzzles provides rare access to a contemporary photographer of significant and widespread influence. Each custom-made cloth box is signed and numbered by Steven Meisel.

The photograph on the jigsaw puzzle — a colorful, pattern-on-pattern image featuring the model Meghan Collison as a tatooed pin-up — originally appeared in the December 2007 issue of Vogue Italia, a publication for which Meisel has created every cover and lead editorial story for nearly two decades.

The puzzle IS available for pre-order now for $750 each at shop.artandcommerce.com. It will also be available at Colette in Paris and at Barneys New York.

Kate Winslet channels her inner Catherine Deneuve for Vanity Fair’s December issue. She posed for Steven Meisel’s camera absolutely nude and the result is Belle Deneuve Jour.

Though she looks stunning in the photoshoot, Kate Winslet sometimes thinks, she looks “a little bit wrong.”

“I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. … But then I think, they can’t be happy in those heels.”

Steven Meisel is our favorite fashion photographer, and Vogue Italy loves him too. Meisel shot the magazine’s October cover with blonde Russian model Victoriya Sasonkina, who has deep, beautiful blue eyes.

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It’s official: the ‘Silent’ editorial from August Vogue Italy is the best photoshoot of the year. Shot by Steven Meisel, this editorial features Linda Evangelista, Guinevere Van Seenus, Karen Elson at a funeral.

The mood of funeral is so real, that tears and emotions look so natural. We can stare at these pictures endlessly: the rain falling, the leaves floating slowly down, and ladies in black crying on the grave.

Bravo Meisel, it’s masterpiece!

View the full editorial on The Fashion Time Magazine

Photographed by Steven Meisel, Eva poses in Calvin Klein G-strings, which she wears ‘all of the time on the red carpet and when shooting for a film’.

Tom Murry, president and chief operating officer of Calvin Klein Inc., said: “This is a departure from more slender body types that have typically been used in Calvin Klein Underwear ads. But this is not so much about a trend of being more curvaceous. This [bra] product is made for a curvaceous woman.”

If U.S. network censors banned the Secret Obsession scent ad campaign, will they ban the Calvin Klein Underwear ad where Eva is also semi-nude?

Calvin Klein Underwear and Secret Obsession ad

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Sasha Pivovarova, who was a face of Prada, now stars in the latest ad campaign for Pringle of Scotland.

In a series of black-and-white frames shot by Steven Meisel, model Sasha Pivovarova displays the most fashion-forward pieces from the label.

“I wanted to reference the work of great British photographers and pay homage to Terence Donovan and David Bailey”, using “the serene portraiture format Meisel is known for,” - Pringle’s designer Waight Keller said.

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The Prada Fall/Winter 08-09 ad campaign features supermodel Linda Evangelista in a lace dress, which is a leitmotif of Prada’s fall collection.

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“We imagined her so beautiful in this collection,” Miuccia Prada told WWD.

Photographed by Steven Meisel, Evangelista has a strange facial expression here.

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We remember the speculation, that the July issue of Italian Vogue would have only black models, and feature only black women of arts and entertainment. This speculation turned out to be true, as Cathy Horyn from the New York Times has a story in today’s paper with details on the upcoming issue, interviews with the people who worked on this project, and some pictures.

The Italian Vogue July issue has 100 pages of photos of Chanel Iman, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Jourdan Dunn, Liya Kebede, Alek Wek, Pat Cleveland, and Karen Alexander shot by Steven Meisel.

We believe this work deserves a lot of respect, as the upcoming issue is all about showing the beauty and soul of black models, while against discrimination, and stereotyping them.

“Laziness, paranoia and pedantry may also have something to do with the failure to hire black models for shows and magazine features in any meaningful number, but, hey, that’s just a guess,” wrote Cathy Horyn in her story for NY Times.

“I thought, it’s ridiculous, this discrimination. It’s so crazy to live in such a narrow, narrow place. Age, weight, sexuality, race — every kind of prejudice,” said Steven Meisel, who is one of the most powerful photographers in the fashion world.

We hope this issue will change people’s views and have an impact. We believe that other magazines will follow Italian Vogue and feature more black models.

Check the preview of the upcoming Vogue Italia July 2008 issue at The Fashion Time Magazine