Musée YSL Marrakech opens today

The Musée YSL Marrakech opens today, featuring images shot by Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff and Michael Roberts. 

'Patio circulaire'
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus

Salle YSL, featuring images by Helmut Newton, Michael Roberts, Jeanloup Sieff and others
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus

Two portraits of Yves by Helmut Newton, plus the cabinet of curiosities
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus

Entrance to la salle YSL, featuring the Mondrian dress
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus

Museum façade
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus

The YSL Mondrian dress

Helmut Newton's iconic image of YSL's Le Smoking, shot in rue Aubriot, Paris, 1975, hanging alongside Jeanloup Sieff's 1970 image of a YSL lace-back dress

Michael Roberts' cover for Vogue Paris, 1988, featuring YSL's cubist tribute to Picasso

Helmut Newton portrait of Yves Saint Laurent and Catherine Deneuve, shot for ELLE in 1982

Smythson 'GingerNutz' special edition

A limited edition of 30 copies of GingerNutz have been produced for Smythson in a leather binding. A special event at Smythson's New Bond Street store marked the launch of the book in the UK and Smythson's newest store (in the same location as their first ever store). 

Image courtesy Smythson

'Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards' UK release

Michael Roberts' debut feature, Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, is released in the UK today (29th September). An in-depth portrait of iconic shoe designer Manolo Blahnik and how his extraordinary dedication to his craft led him to become a household name in international fashion.

Featuring Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Paloma Picasso, Iman, Candace Bushnell, Naomi Campbell, Rupert Everett, Karlie Kloss, Isaac Mizrahi, and André Leon Tally.
Directed by Michael Roberts 
Executive Producer Tiggy Maconochie

Image by Richard Young

Grace Coddington on Michael Roberts

Grace Coddington, subject of Michael's latest book, GingerNutz: The Jungle Memoir of a Model Orangutan, is interviewed on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Published on 1st September by MW Editions.

Michael Roberts 'Grace: The American Vogue Years' windows

Image courtesy of Phaidon

Michael Roberts' windows at Harrods to celebrate the publication of Grace Coddington's The American Vogue Years book, published by Phaidon, were unveiled this week. 

There will be an exclusive signing event at Harrods on 19th September. If you don't manage to snag one of the 120 copies available, the book is available online from Phaidon.