From iconic shots of Kate Moss to a café dedicated to Audrey Hepburn, these are the things every Vogue reader needs to see at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery.
when it comes to sitters , has addressed this concern, commissioning world-renowned artist Tracey Emin to paint the faces of 45 women onto the entrance doors. Each face has been hand drawn by Emin, cast in bronze, and fixed to the entrance in the gallery’s new forecourt. The faces do not depict any specific or identifiable individuals—as Emin explained: “I felt like the doors of the National Portrait Gallery should represent every woman, every age and every culture throughout time.
”© Estate of Corinne Day / Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London /, photographer Corinne Day took the unknown 16-year-old from Croydon and transformed her into the face ofmagazine. The late visionary wanted her work to reflect the London she knew, and the “real” faces she walked past everyday. This portrait, commissioned by the gallery in 2006, sits in the newly opened Contemporary Collection in the Weston Wing alongside a wall of other pop culture legends.
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