Nothing like stamping something “limited edition” to stir a diehard into a frenzy. And there promises to be an endless supply of limited runs of all sorts of covetable goodies in time for the holidays.
Two objects to lust over are by two of my favorite fashion photographers.
I love a good puzzle, and an evening at home with the limited-edition jigsaw of a gorgeous Steven Meisel photograph that first appeared in Vogue Italia (he’s shot every cover and lead editorial for the influential book for the last two decades) beats another round of Hollywood Domino. The 1,000-piece puzzle is all the more challenging because of the print on print image featuring a “tattooed” Meghan Collision. Made by Editions Ricordi, the 200-year-old maker of fine puzzles, each set is contained in a custom-made cloth box and signed and numbered by the photographer.
This edition is limited to 1,000 and carries a $750 price tag.
You can order it through Meisel’s agency, Art + Commerce (which also represents Hedi Slimane, Craig McDean, Richard Burbridge and Annie Leibovitz, among other huge talents). Or pick one up, while they last, at Colette in Paris, at Barneys New York, and at 10 Corso Como in Milan.
It’s more likely I’ll have the next wish on my list fulfilled and hanging in my dining room before too long.
The name Melvin Sokolsky might not conjure up any images, but his images certainly are familiar to those of us who’ve spent way too much time poring over such things. His series in Paris during the 1960s featuring highly made-up fashion models literally floating through parts of Paris in an oversized plexi bubble or without bubble or strings or wings at all are as iconic as they are mesmerizing. There is one of a bouffanted PYT flying in full evening dress in a restaurant, toward her dinner pals. It just cracks me up every time. “Jump” is one of six images offered as part of the photographer’s Collector’s Edition book appropriately called ARCHIVE and available through the Fahey Klein Gallery. There’s a Limited Edition level with 100 artist proofs that stops selling at 600 books and goes for $500. But my plastic is on one of the 300 copies of the Collector’s Edition, signed, numbered and accompanied by a signed and numbered print limited to 50—and priced at $1,500.
But, really, what price on unlimited laughs?