The images in this lavish book published to accompany the seventh annual International Festival of Fashion Photography mark the most striking fashion contributions from the international scene. These photographs, the best editorial images published between 1996 and 1997 in fashion magazines, were chosen by a Nominating Committee made up of professionals in the fashion and photography world to express distinct movements and trends in fashion. The work of such diverse photographers as Bruce Weber, Mario Sorrenti, Larry Fink, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Steven Meisel and Ellen von Unwerth reveal new faces, attitudes, styles: a different allure. These images, together with interviews with a selection of photographers, models, fashion designers, art directors, and magazine editors, illuminate the aspirations and expressions of this era in fashion.