Consider this Galliano story from the Washington Post.

"Talley tells the Galliano story. It's a tale of the power of the fashion press, and of Vogue magazine in particular. John Galliano a few years ago was a Paris designer going nowhere fast.

"He was sleeping on a floor in a sleeping bag," Talley said.

But Talley loved Galliano's collection. He went to his boss, Wintour.

"I said, 'Listen, darling, this is it. This is the collection. This will take fashion to a new level.'

And Wintour said, 'Go do what you have to do.'"

So Talley paid for Galliano to fly from Paris to New York. He put Galliano up in the Royalton Hotel. He took Galliano to a birthday party, thrown in Talley's honor, at Mortimer's. At the party Galliano met the Park Avenue fashion set, including, for example, Catie Marron, a Vogue contributing editor (and friend of Talley's) whose husband, Don Marron, is a big shot at Paine Webber. Sufficiently impressed, in January Paine Webber agreed to bankroll Galliano's collection. That enabled Vogue to feature Galliano prominently in its pages.
He became an international phenomenon. Talley says he did not "discover" Galliano, however. "Talent is something you don't discover. You embrace it."

Sometimes its good to reference non-fashion sources. There's less prejudice that way. Mark Tucker is from Nashville www.marktucker.com In the above Tucker writes "I'm trying to communicate .through the colour palette and lack of contrast." That's his idea added onto his style.

His pictures remind me of the Wabi Sabi aesthetic c2.com/w4/wikibase/?WabiSabi which is an idea in itself worth exploring although to some extent it has been done via Holga and LOMO photography

William Eggleston is from Mississippi. The father of saturated colour pictures of the banal and ordinary, a big influence on Jurgen Teller and in this instance (possibly) Meisel. His Woman on the Curb is here Eggleston's Woman on the Curb

From that idea it's easy to get to the idea here in Meisel's photo.

The critic Jonathan Jones grabs us and says: "They look challengingly at you, a stranger without a clue how to behave. They inhabit this world, they belong here. Who the hell are you?" Jones article.

I doubt whether Meisel had this in mind, but this is how this person sees and embraces the series, and, feeling he's cracked the code, he's happy.
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