Anna Bauer. Backstage

The book is a comprehensive guide to the protagonists of fashion in the 21st century’s first decade. It is like a particularly glamorous bird-watcher’s manual, where you can finally put a face to the editorial credit. New York-based German photographer Anna Bauer took pictures of the fashion scene’s personalities backstage after the shows in Paris, Milan, London and New York using a heavy large-format camera and black-and-white Polaroids. It’s remarkable how natural the models, designers, investors, critics, stylists and fashion photographers look in these pictures, with which Anna Bauer not only captures their surface, but also their souls.