Lindsey Wixson in New Jersey

photography by TERRY RICHARDSON art direction by OLIVIER ZAHM style by CAROLINE GAIMARI   One of the most famous fashion photographs of the Second World War was taken by Cecil Beaton in 1945. It shows a beautiful model posing in the rubble of a bombed-out London building. Beaton’s picture was a prototype for a type of fashion photograph that contrasted expensive high fashion with social devastation, impoverished urban landscapes, and squalid streets. This contrast reinforces the beauty of the model and the sophistication of the clothes. But it also highlights overwhelming social inequality. To showcase the Fall / Winter 2011-12 collections we drove with Terry Richardson a few miles outside of New York City, where Terry photographed Lindsey Wixson in a suburban New Jersey landscape bestrewn with refuse and marred with crack dens, a place with walls covered in graffiti and advertisements for bail bonds, divorce lawyers, conflict therapists, and post-war stress…