Guy Bourdin: Fahey/Klein Gallery. (Los Angeles).(photographs)(Brief Article)

His annus mirabilis was 1976. While continuing to work for long-term client Roland Jourdan of Charles Jourdan shoes, Guy Bourdin created advertising campaigns that year for Gianfranco Ferre, Complice and Callaghan (designed by Gianni Versace), Madame Gres, and Loewe, among others, and still managed to put together his dazzling "Sighs and Whispers" lingerie catalogue for Bloomingdale's.

In some sense the only "book" he published of his work in his lifetime, this eerie opus is an influential combination of commerce, fashion, and art--well, if nor art, then ...

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