Legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz turns his lens onto a bevy of fashions on the streets of his native Brooklyn for the most recent subject of W Journal.

With a profession spanning 40 years, Shabazz is finest identified for his participating and sometimes intimate road portraits that served as a window into his world as a black man in New York Metropolis. One of many standout works in his assortment is the {photograph} “A Time of Innocence,” taken in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. The pictures reveals a scene the place black youngsters youngsters are engrossed in play and driving in a purchasing cart alongside a vibrant road.

Shabazz undertook the picture shoot in shut proximity to the Brooklyn Museum, simply two weeks after the conclusion of a retrospective of his work there. The central theme he pursued was encapsulated within the phrase “more durable than leather-based,” symbolizing an undisturbed confidence sometimes called “cool.” Shabazz, who admits that he all the time needed to be a stylist, emphasised daring equipment to rework the fashions into “city warriors.”

Styled by Ola Ebiti, the fashions sport a seemingly limitless listing of high designers, together with Gucci, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and far more. Every look is rounded out with har by Matt Benns and make-up by Kanako Takas.

“It’s not usually that I get to shoot style for a publication,” he says of the images you see right here. “Actually, it’s a dream,” Shabazz tells W. “My goal was to create a picture of range,” he says. “To painting a sorority of ladies giving one another power.”

Extra at W Journal.