Legendary photographer Guy Bourdin is being honored with a new exhibit in London at The Wapping Project. Titled, “Unseen Guy Bourdin,” the collection of photographs includes many of the icon’s most memorable sexually charged, vividly colored shots. In light of the exhibit, Dazed Digital caught up with Bourdin's former muse -- model Nicolle Meyer -- for an interesting back and forth on what it was like working with Bourdin. Of her favorite Bourdin image, she says: “the one I loved the most because it was so stunning, and was like being in a film, was the one where we went to Karl Lagerfeld's chateau outside Paris. It was for French Vogue and I'm tied to a stake like Saint Sebastien or Christ, stripped to my nipples with blood running down. I was with another model Audrey who was kneeling down. It was so amazing how he would stand back and it was like he was painting a painting, tweaking certain things and getting it just right for the shot.”

Also, get ready for yet another new fashion rag launch in the midst of the economic downturn. Diane Pernet of A Shaded View on Fashion checked out a private preview of the new exhibit of Bourdin’s work last night, which was sponsored by the not-yet-launched title in question: Glass. According to Pernet, the quarterly rag will launch in February (which may be a misprint considering that’d be quite a wait), and its debut issue will include a substantial feature on Bourdin.