Kenny Scharf attended Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts and came of age in the 1980s New York downtown art scene alongside his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. A painter and performer inhabiting the visual worlds of both street art and popular culture, Scharf’s graffiti paintings gained him notoriety and established a vernacular language all his own. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Miami Center for the Fine Arts, Florida, and the Queens Museum of Art, New York, among others. Work by Scharf is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, and The Jewish Museum, New York, in addition to others worldwide.

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Rock’s career continued to soar with key 70s images like Lou Reed’s Transformer, Iggy Pop’s Raw Power and Queen’s Queen II and many of the Sex Pistols’ infamous shots. His pictures captured the revolutionary spirit of this groundbreaking period and made him the one of the most sought-after photographers in the world.

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Dita Von Teese—dubbed an “all around icon” by Elle
and a “Burlesque Superheroine” by Vanity Fair—is an artist, burlesque dancer, muse, model, mogul, and renowned vedette, . An undisputed glamazon, Von Teese has appeared in campaigns for Vivienne Westwood, Wheels & Dollbaby, M.A.C, and PETA. Von Teese’s first book, the New York Times best seller, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese ( Harper Collins/Regan Books in 2006), was written by Bronwyn Garrity. Her second book, Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour—co-authored by Rose Apodaca and illustrated by Adele Mildred—was released in 2015 by Dey Street Books.

Von Teese’s entrepreneurial ventures include collaborations with Christian Louboutin, M.A.C, DITA Eyewear, WonderBra, and Gaspar Gloves.

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He is also considered one of the first artists to have painted on freight trains, as well as a pioneer of “painting in the heavens”—a graffiti term referring to highly elevated surfaces like billboards, rooftops, and overpasses.

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As Senior Artist with Rockstar Games from 2001 to 2016 Stephen Bliss helped establish the highly recognizable illustrative style that defined the look, feel and positioning of the gaming mega-franchise Grand Theft Auto. He painted video game box covers, posters, billboards and magazine covers for GTA and many other successful game titles such as The Warriors, LA Noire and Red Dead Redemption. Bliss also headed Rockstar’s Lifestyle Branding department, creating non-game related posters and products that helped reinforce Rockstar’s reputation as a creative powerhouse.

Stephen Bliss started his career in 1986 working as in-house designer with Japanese fashion pioneers Hysteric Glamour.

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Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his passion for rock-and-roll led him to his chosen field when he photographed Jimi Hendrix in 1968. John Waters once said, “Greg Gorman is the only person I’d let photograph my corpse”.He primarily works in black and white.

He has also directed music videos, television advertisements, and graphic design layouts for advertisers.

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Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, director and creative director. He is known for his signature lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction and design and has been repeatedly identified throughout his career with the revival and modern expression of Hollywood glamour.

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A fixture of New York night life since the early 1980s, when she moved from Atlanta with her pal RuPaul, Lady Bunny is arguably the city’s reigning drag queen, less a mother hen than a queen bee with plenty of sting. Her signature look — big curves, bigger hair — has endured, as has her act: scowling, spiky comedy, laced with political jabs and honeyed with Southern-fried gregariousness.

And while much has changed in L.G.B.T. life over the past 17 years (gay marriage, PrEP, Caitlyn Jenner and “RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Lady Bunny retains the rude and crude spirit that has eroded over the decades, both from downtown Manhattan and from drag itself, now that “Drag Race” has minted a new crop of camera-ready stars.

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It is not often that careers go backwards but in the case of Mr Rutherford, that is exactly what has been happening. In a curious case of Benjamin Button-esque proportions, it seems that, now in his 50s, Eric Rutherford is having something of a renaissance. His salt and peppered Instagram currently has 170,000 followers and is growing daily. His appeal is heightened not simply by his physical appearance – Silver Fox doesn’t even come close – instead, Rutherford’s appeal seems to be as a style magnate to every generation of man.

Instagram – 232k followers