What the red carpet is to the Oscars and Emmys, the Opening Ceremony is to the Olympic Games—a lead-up some viewers find almost as entertaining as the main event. No surprise, then, that this month’s production will feature two of fashion’s top names. When the world’s athletes make their grand entrance on July 27, the London home team, aka Team GB, will be kitted out by fellow Brit S t e l l a M cc a r t n e Y.Team USA will sport r alph l auren.

Much like the red carpet, the specifics are kept under wraps until just prior to the games. But we were permitted a sneak peek of Lauren’s sketches for the team’s Closing Ceremony uniforms. The all-white looks are classic Ralph Lauren and, with luck, should provide a nice clean backdrop for lots of high-gleam accessories in bronze, silver, and gold.

S ir paul SMith, me a nwh i l e , i s ma rk i ng the London games with a very different sort of collaboration, this one involving not fabric and thread but paper and glue. The knighted designer and noted cycling enthusiast has partnered with the Isle of Man post office for a set of commemorative stamps depicting seven Olympic sports. Not coincidentally, the Isle of Man is home to British cycling star Mark Cavendish, a close friend of Smith’s and a favorite in the men’s road race. Check paulsmith.co.uk for a compendium book of stamps and related postcards. — Tracy Achor Hayes

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Fashion designers have applied their creativity to everything From Furniture to digital playlists. But For gloBal expression oF liFestyle, nothing Beats a hotel, the commission du jour. sleepchic

M I S S O N IS i g n at u r e Zingy patterned knitsru n way-to - g e taway The 169-room Hotel Missoni Kuwait (hotelmissoni.com) overlooking the Arabian Gulf and incorporating 85 different colors in everything from bathrobes to china. a m b i e n c e More is more in the Middle East. Pattern-happy rooms feel upscale bohemian. Even the pool is tiled in stripes.

P H I L I P T R E AC YS i g n at u r e Eccentric millinery

ru n way-to - g e taway The 101-room g Hotel (theghotel.ie) in Galway, Ireland,

with jewel-toned restaurant, crystal-encrusted bar, fuchsia lounge, and a tranquil ESPA.

a m b i e n c e Publicly gregarious, privately cool. Social spaces shout see-and-be-seen.

Guest rooms chill, with surreal touches like nautilus-shaped pillows.

S A LVAT O R E F E R R AG A MOS i g n at u r e Artful footwearru n way-to - g e taway The riverside Hotel Lungarno (lungarnocollection.com), 61 rooms and 12 suites in a former sixteenth-century Florentine palazzo with a museum-quality art collection spanning Renaissance frescoes to Picasso. a m b i e n c e Tasteful and well-connected. Bonus: Guest privileges include a private tour and ten-percent discount at the Ferragamo boutique in Florence, plus an excursion to the Museum of Salvatore Ferragamo.

C H R I S T I A N L AC R O I XS i g n at u r e Exuberant theatricalityru n way-to - g e taway The 34-room Paris boutique Le Bellechasse Saint Germain (lebellechasse.com) with color-themed f loors hidden away in the haute Faubourg St. Germain. a m b i e n c e A living Lacroix collage—combining lush, historic prints, a bright palette, and unexpected details, like a ceiling f locked with butterf lies.

G I O R G I O A R M A N IS i g n at u r e Minimalist fashionru n way-to - g e taway The new 95-room Armani Hotel Milano (milan.armanihotels.com) with a rooftop spa overlooking the Duomo and an array of Giorgio Armani shops in a shopping-centric locale. a m b i e n c e Restrained, tailored—favoring neutrals and darks. A Lifestyle Manager is on hand to ensure that all your needs are anticipated and attended to.

B U L G A R IS i g n at u r e Architectural jewelryru n way-to - g e taway The 85-room Bulgari Hotel & Residences, London (bulgarihotels.com) in tony Knightsbridge with a two-story spa and 25-meter pool featuring a stone mosaic in signature green and gold. a m b i e n c e Classic, given to metallic accessories (think silver lamps and chandeliers). Also features bath amenities other luxe hotels covet.

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At a fashion shoot on Manhattan’s Lower West Side, Erik Madigan Heck has put down his camera while his team moves quickly to assemble the backdrop for the next shot—an Impressionistic take on a Parisian home. Hearing the pops of a staple gun punctuate the blaring music and watching the façade of the house take shape in a precise landscape of yellow-leafed “trees,” all you can think is: Surely, there’s an easier way. Surely, these special effects could be accomplished (dare you say it?) with the help of, er, tons of Photoshop?

At a time when digital aftereffects play a regular role in fashion photography, Heck is something of an anomaly. Plenty of his images—like those shot for Comme des Garçons, Mary Katrantzou, and Ann Demeulemeester—appear to have received an intense Photoshop assist, but in fact, they almost never have. Heck is old-fashioned that way, preferring to use his non-digital camera (a Canon EOS 630) or experimental post-production techniques. And if his photos seem a blend of photography and painting, that’s no accident.

“I tend to look at painting for inspiration—from many different time periods, depending on what the fashion designer has already come up with in his or her designs,” says the tall, shaggy-haired Minnesota transplant, grabbing two coffee-table tomes on Vuillard and Degas to make his point. “They’re my go-to inspiration,” he says, thumbing the pages, many marked with Post-it notes. “I like the way Vuillard and Degas portray women. They’re not sexy. I try to stay away from sexy, glamorous women.”

Heck, who turns 29 on September 9, is the youngest photographer ever chosen to shoot The Art of Fashion® for Neiman Marcus. He’s in excellent company, joining a list that includes Richard Avedon, Arthur Elgort, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Lillian Bassman, Paolo Roversi….

Of course, most photographers his age are still honing their craft, usually by assisting an established photographer (if they’re lucky, a marquee name). But Heck went about things differently. “I always had a specific vision for how I wanted my work to be and didn’t want to become subject to the work of someone else,” he says. “It has taken me many years to get to the place I am, and I proudly have never assisted a photographer, which I suppose makes me unique in the industry.” Instead, he launched the publication Nomenus Quarterly (the name is a play on the “No Menus” signs often seen taped on the doors of New York apartments) as a way to showcase his work and curate the work of others he admired. The idea came to him in 2007, when he was living in Paris and becoming friends with designers like Demeulemeester, Haider Ackermann, and Dries Van Noten. “When I began Nomenus, it allowed me to start shooting this level of fashion, and show it to the world,” says Heck. “It was the first time my work got noticed, because I was able to collaborate with great artists that a lot of people didn’t have access to and have it seen online by people around the world.”

Raised in an art-loving, museum-going family (his father collects African and New Guinea art and his mother is a painter), Heck’s love of fashion, photography, and painting took root early on. At first, he was drawn to painting, but that gave way to photography after his mother gave him that first camera, a manual EOS Canon, when he was a teenager. “I knew when I first started taking pictures that it was something that would allow me to create in a more contemporary manner,” he says. “Painting was great, but I wanted a more time-relevant medium to express my ideas, and photography seemed to be it.”

His painterly approach regularly finds him shooting outside the world of fashion. Indeed, his best day on the job, he says, was when he was asked to shoot painter Gerhard Richter’s portrait. “He’s the most important living artist, and one of my personal favorites,” says Heck. “To spend the day with him was kind of like meeting God in the art-world sense. I was raised on his work, and the whole experience was surreal—probably my best photo experience yet.”

He pauses, as if to reconsider. “I also just shot the cover of Time magazine, which was the most prestigious event in my career so far. That one was definitely the most important to my family.” — Kimberly Goad

A different EyeErik Madigan HEck sHoots filM, MakEs pHotograpHs tHat appEar as paintings, and calls Vuillard and dEgas His “go-to inspiration.” MEEt tHE youngEst pHotograpHEr EVEr to sHoot tHE art of fasHion.

Two original Erik Madigan Heck prints shot in conjunction with The Art of Fashion campaign will be auctioned October 20 at Two X Two for AIDS and Art (2X2online.org), a 13-year-old fundraiser that has raised nearly $35 million for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and the Dallas Museum of Art’s contemporary art acquisitions fund. Watch for more information in the next issue of the book.

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