Alistair O’Neill is a writer, curator, and consultant specialising in fashion, photography, and archives.
WRITING
DURAN LANTINK
Harper’s Bazaar Italia
October 2025
I LOVE MAKING MISTAKES
Duran Lantink is ready to make his debut as creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier, with the same energy, boldness, and desire to play with fashion as the Maison's founder.
Duran Lantink is ready to make his debut as creative director of Jean Paul Gaultier, with the same energy, boldness, and desire to play with fashion as the Maison's founder.
NIGEL SHAFRAN
Aperture #260
Fall 2025
STUDIO VISIT
On an early spring day, rare with sunshine, I arrived at a building of artists' studios located between London Fields Overground rail station and the gates to the East London park of the same name.
On an early spring day, rare with sunshine, I arrived at a building of artists' studios located between London Fields Overground rail station and the gates to the East London park of the same name.
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.