Linda Evangelista and Steven Meisel: A Storied Fashion Collaboration

Linda Evangelista, photographed by Steven Meisel, stands at the center of a defining era in fashion photography. Their enduring collaboration, which began in the late 1980s, reshaped how the industry frames beauty, movement, and the artful documentary gaze. The forthcoming book from Phaidon gathers two decades of collaboration into a single, sweeping portrait of a muse and the photographer who helped elevate her star. Across decades, Meisel’s lens captured Evangelista in a rhythm of images that felt both intimate and iconic, weaving a narrative that stretches beyond campaigns and magazine covers into the cultural memory of fashion. The project is more than a collection of pictures; it is a chronological dialogue about style, identity, and the evolution of editorial storytelling that still resonates in today’s visual landscape.