90's dream team: Amber Valetta, Juergen Teller, Camilla Nickerson, Dick Page, Didier Malige

I am mostly attracted to candid pictures for inspiration - I like to see style icons dressed in their own clothes, going about in their own lives, as opposed to seeing them all styled up for a magazine shoot or an event. But occasionally I also can take great inspiration from a created image, completely artificially manufactured by a team of supremely talented fashion folk. I find that when magazine spreads are really, really good, they resonate for decades, and rediscovering them is so much fun. It usually happens when I am doing photo research on a totally unrelated topic. I'll see an image that catches my eye, realize it's an editorial picture, try to figure out or guess what magazine it was for or who shot it, and then set about to find the rest of the story online, usually posted on another blog or on tumblr. This is exactly what happened recently with the pictures shown below. I was looking for candid pictures of stylist Camilla Nickerson. In my opinion she has the best style in the world, but it's very hard to find pictures of her online (making her even more appealing of course). In the course of searching I found a picture she styled of Amber Valetta for I-D magazine that really drew me in. It was from the 90's but it looked so current. Slicked back hair, a darkened brow but little else on the face, a slash of a black dress across her body revealing plenty of skin. The look was austere, but undoubtedly sexy. The rest of the pictures that followed with further research where even more revealing, shown both through Amber's poses and the other dresses. When I got to the final picture and saw the credits, it was no surprise that I was so attracted to these images - Dick Page and Dider Malige are my favorite makeup and hair team bar none, and only Juergen Teller could pull off the suggestiveness of Amber's poses. The whole effect was 90's minimalism at its best.