
FLASH TRACK: DAVID SIMS PHOTOGRAPHS YOHJI YAMAMOTO
I FIRST NOTICED David Sims’ work six years ago when his vignettes of young Brits in thrift-store clothes, captured in slack, half-conscious poses, showed up in The Face and British iD. Shortly thereafter his images found their way into Harper’s Bazaar. But it was the photos Sims shot for Fabien Baron’s 1993 Calvin Klein ads that propelled him (and model Kate Moss) to international prominence. Sims’ images for the minimal, precisely composed Klein ads, like his subsequent work, retained the immediacy that marked his defiantly casual earlier style; indeed, the quirky expressions and unselfconscious