Miles Aldridge is a London born fashion photographer with two main concerns when it comes to creating truly compelling images: women and colour. In a major new retrospective at London’s Somerset House, his exhibition I only want you to love me has just opened to coincide with the launch of his book, published by Rizzoli with the same name.

The show is quite the spectacle. Aldridge’s arresting images are on the one hand extremely glamorous, depicting uber women in saturated colours, on the other, however, they are often disturbing. As Somerset House itself puts it, “His work is filled with glamorous, beautiful women from dazed housewives and decadent beauties to sunbathing sexpots and ecstatic Virgins. Luscious colours dazzle from every image – blood red ketchup splashes against a black and white floor; a mouth drips with gold; egg yolk oozes across a plate.  But the technicolour dream world of seemingly perfect women with blank expressions belies a deeper sense of disturbance and neurosis.  Look more closely and there is silent screaming, a head pushed down on a bed, a face covered in polythene, a woman pushing an empty swing.”

Known for his shoots in the likes of Vogue and the New York Times, this iconic celebrated photographer offers an artists’ take on the fashion. His goddesses also make quite the stunning show.

All pictures from Miles Aldridge I only Want you to Love me, published by Rizzoli available here http://www.amazon.com/dp/0847840360

Exhibition is on at Somerset House from now until 29th September http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/miles-aldridge-i-only-want-you-to-love-me