An evocative photographic
homage shot by renowned image-makers that celebrates the iconic archival
fashion designs of Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein.
From
2003 to 2016, Francisco Costa was the creative director and women’s
collections designer for the American fashion house Calvin Klein. It was
a time of creative abundance, one that simultaneously supported both
fashion design experimentation and its traditional crafts. In 2020,
Costa revisited his fashion collections archive and invited twenty-one
photographers to receive a box containing hand-selected prototype and
runway clothing from Costa’s Calvin Klein women’s collections that could
be used either as inspiration or directly as props and costumes within
photographs. 555 is a
collaborative project that celebrates the iconic collection’s
reanimation and visual transformation by an extraordinary congregation
of participating artists and image-makers. Moody, contemplative, and
provocative images featured range from observational and documentary
photography to self-portraiture, evocative nude editorials, fashion
photography, and visual records of artistic performances.
Housed
in a beautifully crafted, limited edition clamshell box, twenty-one
unbound booklets, printed on various tactile paper stocks, feature
photographic stories by Diego Villarreal, Marcelo Gomes, Nick
Waplington, Jamie Hawkesworth, Hugh Lippe, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Joel
Meyerowitz, Lea Colombo, and Collier Schorr.