Alistair O’Neill is a writer, curator, and consultant specialising in fashion, photography, and archives.
PUBLICATIONS
MASQUERADE, MAKE-UP & ENSOR
Lannoo
October 2024
ESSAY
What The Mask Means To Me: Five Make-up Artists, Five Ways
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor at MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp, this book celebrates the craftsmanship and creativity of make-up and hair artists: the painters of fashion. Belgian artist James Ensor's ideas about masquerade, vanity, seduction, deception and the transient are explored from a contemporary perspective.
What The Mask Means To Me: Five Make-up Artists, Five Ways
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor at MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp, this book celebrates the craftsmanship and creativity of make-up and hair artists: the painters of fashion. Belgian artist James Ensor's ideas about masquerade, vanity, seduction, deception and the transient are explored from a contemporary perspective.
MARTIN PARR
Aperture online
April 2024
INTERVIEW
The World is Martin Parr’s Runway
The Magnum legend has fixed his irreverent gaze on haute couture for nearly thirty years—but don’t call him a fashion photographer.
The World is Martin Parr’s Runway
The Magnum legend has fixed his irreverent gaze on haute couture for nearly thirty years—but don’t call him a fashion photographer.
GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HEUNE
Thames & Hudson
2024
CHAPTER
Interpreting Couture
Supported by an international exhibition opening at Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo, this book combines elegant design and production values with rigorous new research and scholarship. Organized into eight chapters, each supported by texts by contributing writers from the worlds of fashion, cinema and photography, and featuring names and faces that have defined our view of style, glamour and grace in the 20th century, it reminds us of Huene’s position among the greats of photography.
Interpreting Couture
Supported by an international exhibition opening at Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo, this book combines elegant design and production values with rigorous new research and scholarship. Organized into eight chapters, each supported by texts by contributing writers from the worlds of fashion, cinema and photography, and featuring names and faces that have defined our view of style, glamour and grace in the 20th century, it reminds us of Huene’s position among the greats of photography.