New York SuperModel, Phil Fusco has been working out since he was 14, and has entered the industry at the age of 17 and signed in 2009 with "Empire Model Management".
Fusco has been able to achieve so much in a very short amount of time. He's modeled for "Score Underwear", "Vista Video", and "John Falocco", as well as gracing the coveted front cover of "Exercise Magazine" for men several times. Now at 25, he have appeared in numerous prints ads, muscle videos and in several magazines in fashion, prints and muscles. He have worked with famed LA Photographer Ted Sun and since Ted teamed with Uvenio, Phil Fusco joined the team and to be seen in Uvenio designs!
SEEING THINGS IN A DIFFERENT WAY. THAT IS PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY. AN ABILITY TO LOOK AT THINGS IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE. BRINGING THINGS TO EXISTENCE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE CAMERA AND GIVING LIFE TO ONES VISION AND DREAMS. IT’S ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY. BUT CREATIVITY NEEDS TO BE NOURISHED. IT NEEDS TO BE FED WITH INSPIRATION AND THAT CAN ONLY BE GAINED BY OPENING YOUR MIND AND FEEDING YOUR CURIOSITY. SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ALL ABOUT THAT IS TED SUN.
As he continues to explore his practice in portrait photography, Ted Sun is naturally being led to exploring fashion, and considering more how he wants to style the model. "I began reaching out to designers that caught my eye, and came across designer Christopher Uvenio, whose work I'd noticed had been featured many times on BeautifulMag,” Ted explains his new explorations in fashion photography. “We met up for coffee and instantly connected, and collaborated on an editorial shoot together. He provided me a bunch of fun designs to work with, including the silver hand-made mesh shirt for this shoot.”
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 196 COUNTRIES ON EARTH, SPREAD OVER 7 CONTINENTS. IT WOULD TAKE QUIET SOME TIME TO VISIT THEM ALL, BUT IT ISN’T IMPOSSIBLE. TED SUN HAS DONE ABOUT ONE THIRD OF IT, AND IT TOOK HIM 5 YEARS. WHICH COMES DOWN TO ROUGHLY 14 COUNTRIES BY YEAR. TED DID NOT ONLY VISIT THE COUNTRIES, HE ALSO TOOK TONS OF PICTURES. IN FACT IT IS SAFE TO STATE THAT HIS LOVE FOR TRAVELING INITIATED HIS PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
Ted Sun has visited 70 countries across all 7 continents and did all that over a 5-year stretch from 2006 to 2011. He did this in company of his camera and took loads of photos, always looking for beautiful and interesting things. It’s often said that practice makes perfect.
Something that definitely applies to Ted’s work. How could it be otherwise. Taking so many pictures over such a time period can only lead to an enormous progress. Which eventually led to a whole new journey for Ted in 2012.
It is often said that once you start to undertake big travels and spend extensive time abroad, the need to visit new places will stay in your blood. Since 2012 Ted Sun has been traveling in a very different universe. Was he first mostly active as a photographer during his many journeys to other countries and cultures, currently Ted occupies his time mostly with portrait photography.
Which doesn’t necessarily means he has completely settled down. Native Angeleno as he is, Ted lives and works in Los Angeles where he has a studio in the Hollywood Hills, near Sunset Plaza, but frequently crosses the continent to his other hometown New York City. Here in the trendy neighborhood Chelsea Ted has founded a second studio.
Traveling and undertaking journeys can be an exciting thing to do without knowing where you might end up. In every aspect. Ted Sun first practiced visual arts while in college at Princeton. There he took a class in photography but his focus was more on video-film making. Nevertheless he graduated with a degree in psychology. After college Ted entered the fast world of advertising, managing ad campaigns for leading agencies and brands for 6 years. It was advertising that brought Ted from sunny California to New York.
While in NYC he left the industry in 2005, trying all kinds of freelance work before picking up part-time work as a videographer. All of a sudden Ted found himself in a very flexible work schedule, which allowed him to start a new adventure in traveling which, as said before, eventually brought him back to his passion of photography. So you see, travelling can indeed bring you to an unexpected outcome.
His constant quest for beautiful and interesting things have initiated a curiosity in ted that eventually led to portrait photography. But not the standard work. No. Ted Sun combines his ability of catching the beauty in his surroundings with an experience of seeing beauty in people. Which results in some extra-ordinary work. Such as these breathtaking three series – Underwater, Joshua Tree and White Light. Poetic photography with respect for both model and scenery.
A combination of two elements in which both model and background are hero without fighting each other for attention. Writer henry Miller once said that one's destiny is never a place but a new way of seeing things. Something Ted Sun definitely has embraced.
WOW! SHOCKING NEWS of MARC JACOB leaving VUITTON shocked the Fashion World!
Marc Jacobs, the star designer who turned Louis Vuitton from a staid luggage-maker into a global fashion brand, is leaving to focus on his own eponymous label, a source close to the French company's parent LVMH said on Wednesday.
The move follows a series of leadership changes at Louis Vuitton, LVMH's cash cow and biggest profit- and revenue- contributor, aimed at helping the brand regain some of its lost prestige after a sustained decline in sales over the past year.
“Marc Jacobs is leaving Vuitton and will focus on his own brand,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
LVMH and Marc Jacobs declined to comment.\
Jacobs' departure comes a month after LVMH founder and chief executive Bernard Arnault appointed his daughter Delphine as deputy head of Louis Vuitton and replaced last year longstanding chief Yves Carcelle with group veteran Michael Burke.
Louis Vuitton, which built its name and profitability on its LV-embossed canvas bags, has been suffering from cooling demand in Asia and consumers' growing preference for no-logo products.
Over the past year, the brand has put brakes on its expansion, contributing to its sales growth halving to around 5 percent and last month, it hired accessories designer Darren Spaziani, ex-Proenza Schouler, to beef up its high-end offering of leather bags.
Nicolas Ghesquiere, a darling of fashion editors, who left Balenciaga last year after having successfully revamped the Kering fashion brand, is seen as a frontrunner to replace Jacobs.
“It would be a positive sign if Ghesquiere joined Louis Vuitton as he is one of the most coveted designers today and he would give a creative jolt to the brand,” said David Da Maia, analyst at brokerage Aurel BGC in Paris.\
Arnault has been regularly changing the creative and management teams of his fashion brands to refresh the style and drive expansion.\
LVMH's Celine has been going from strength to strength since award-winning designer Phoebe Philo took its creative helm in 2008 while Riccardo Tisci has brought new vitality to Givenchy since his appointment in 2005.
Jacobs, whose theatrical fashion shows contributed to heightening the brand's profile, introduced collaborations with artists such as Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse and recently rapper Kanye West to help make the brand more relevant to fashion followers.
Swan song
Marc Jacobs on Wednesday presented his last collection for Louis Vuitton, an all-black swan song that incorporated elements from his past shows such as the train station he famously reconstituted and the slow-turning white carousel carrying models, including Kate Moss, two years ago.
Today, the Marc Jacobs brand and particularly its more accessible line Marc by Marc Jacobs, are among the most profitable fashion subsidiaries within LVMH, enjoying strong demand in the United States and Japan.
Marc Jacobs also launched a cosmetics products line in August in the United States, with exclusive distribution handled by Sephora, LVMH's beauty products retail chain.
Media reports said the designer aimed to float his business - which is estimated to generate sales of around 500 million euros - on the New York Stock Exchange within a few years.
Some industry observers suggest Marc Jacobs has been emboldened by the success of Michael Kors, the U.S. brand whose shares and sales have been enjoying stellar growth since the initial public offering late last year.
At the age of 24, Jacobs was the youngest designer to receive the New Fashion Talent award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. After graduating from the Parsons New School of Design, Jacobs worked for Perry Ellis after the designer passed away and shortly thereafter created his own label in 1984 with partner Robert Duffy.
He became Louis Vuitton's artistic director in 1997.
When Dior sacked John Galliano two years ago after a video showed him making antisemitic comments in a Paris bar, Jacobs was one of the leading contenders to replace him but according to reports, talks fell through over terms. In the end, Dior took more than a year to appoint Raf Simons as its new designer.
