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...such is the nature of fashion that its ecology is tremendously unstable. Every six months or so, the cast of imagemakers can change. One season the leading lights may be photographers like Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, rich and famous for their airbrushed Vargas-style pinups. Another season influence falls to teen marketers like the FARM Team, college kids who spread the word about cool products on campuses. There are creative directors who elicit emotion from the familiar combination of a favorite song and the golden autumn glow of a tungsten movie lamp. There are designers like Reed Krakoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Business Of Imagemaking | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

...photographer on the map and lead to coveted multimillion-dollar editorial contracts and ad campaigns, such as the ones that have made Steven Meisel and Patrick Demarchelier household names. This season Louis Vuitton's ubiquitous Jennifer Lopez ads have catapulted a young duo from London, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, to the top of fashion photography's short list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

...Mary Gaines, 14 and 16 the day they wed. When Jackie says she's preoccupied lately with thoughts of "all the people who dedicated themselves to helping a young girl dream," she starts with a family huddled several generations strong in either the coldest or the warmest ( house on Piggott Avenue, across the street from a tavern, down the block from a pool hall, around the corner (blessedly) from a playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...that time, Kersee was coaching both her and Al, and on a remarkable August night the two schemers from Piggott Avenue made history. Al had all but won the triple jump when Jackie took her mark in the 800-meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...first in the final two furlongs. "As near to being a masterpiece as is possible in race riding," said Racing Writer Brough Scott. A computer chart showed that a horse had a better chance of winning with Cauthen aboard than with any other jockey, including the legendary Lester Piggott. Piggott, 49, is Britain's Willie Shoemaker, a gritty, no-nonsense veteran who has won eleven jockey championships. His terse appraisal after his first matchup against Cauthen: "I wouldn't let him mow my lawn." The stony-faced Piggott later relented slightly: "He's good, but not that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yankee Doodle Dandy | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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