Jamily Meurer Poses As Louise Nevelson In Max Cornwall Images For CR Fashion Book #13

“You take any material and when you convert it to black,” she once curtly stated. "It’s so distinguished.” Of the all-encompassing black she often painted her reliefs, she noted that this “silhouette” was the “essence of the universe.” What is a silhouette but a body, some dark, tidal form? What is essence besides everything, distilled? Thus Nevelson’s style, her own intricately assembled silhouette, its own definitive form, is not without meaning. It was how she staged her body and her body of work for the world. And she staged it brilliantly. In 1977, the critic Robert Hughes would note of Nevelson: “The dandy of American art is a woman."

CR Fashion Book 13 channels the late, great Louise Nevelson in images by Max Cornwall. Model Jamily Meurer is styled by Benjamin Galopin and Stephane Rochas in Givenchy, Elosabetta Franchi, Marine Serre, Anteprima, Sacai and more. / Hair by Olivier Schawalder; makeup by Rebecca Wordingham

Read Quinn Latimer’s in-depth Louise Nevelson bio.