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September 27, 2016

The Most Dramatic Backstage Photos You’ll See All Fashion Month

By Anna Furman

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Photo: Landon Nordeman

Before turning to fashion photography, Landon Nordeman shot events like the Westminster Kennel Club dog show for newspapers. Now he’s a fixture backstage at fashion shows in New York, London, Paris, and Milan (and he’s often photographed those shows for the Cut).

Using a bright flash and the same 35mm lens, Nordeman has captured personalities like Diane von Furstenberg and André Leon Talley. He’s shot Iris Apfel sitting front row in Paris and a glossy-lipped Lindsey Wixson modeling rose-colored Chanel. He says he’s most “drawn to characters and eccentrics who are unafraid to express themselves through their fashion.” For him, that makes Thom Browne, Jeremy Scott, Rick Owens, and Proenza Schouler shows ideal — for the designers’ bright color palettes and overall spectacle.

Landon Nordeman: Out of Fashion, the photographer’s first book, is out today from Damiani. Click ahead to see a model wrapped in Iris van Herpen, Grace Coddington’s iconic hair, and the most appealing plate of backstage eclairs you’ve ever seen. Nordeman will join the Cut’s editorial director Stella Bugbee for a conversation and book signing at the Rizzoli bookstore on October 11.

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Grace Coddington at Rag and Bone, Fall-Winter 2014, New York Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Thom Browne, Spring-Summer 2015, New York Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Diane von Fürstenberg and André Leon Talley, Spring-Summer 2014, New York Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Iris Apfel at Dries Van Noten, Fall-Winter 2016, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Missoni, Fall-Winter 2015, Milan Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Dior’s Guggenheim Gala, Guggenheim Museum, New York, November 2015 Photo: Landon Nordeman
Iris Van Herpen, Fall-Winter 2015, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Anthony Vaccarello, Spring-Summer 2015, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Thom Browne, Spring-Summer 2016, New York Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Armani, Spring-Summer 2016, Paris Haute Couture Photo: Landon Nordeman
Vandevorst, Fall-Winter 2015, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Lindsay Wixson at Chanel, Fall-Winter 2015, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Éclairs backstage at Vionnet, Fall-Winter 2016, Paris Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
Photographers in the pit at Anna Sui, Fall-Winter 2014, New York Fashion Week Photo: Landon Nordeman
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