FashionTop TenStylist Mel Ottenberg picks from the VFiles vaultsBrooke Shields' crimped hair and styling Pamela Anderson in stars – Mel Ottenberg delves into VFiles' digital archives and pulls his top ten imagesShareLink copied ✔️August 5, 2014FashionTop TenTextVFiles As part of our new summer US project States of Independence we've invited our favourite 30 American curators, magazines, creatives and institutions to take over Dazed for a day. Today, as part of our State of Fashion week, the radical New York-based brand, store and online phenomenon VFiles is curating our content – from the debut of new show Intern Files, where hopefuls battle it out for a coveted position, to Preston's favourite Model Files picks. We managed to tempt the one and only Mel Ottenberg to take some time out from personally styling Rihanna, fashion directing the Berlin-based 032c magazine and being a certified pop culture expert to have a virtual rummage in the VFiles vaults. Below, he presents his most inspirational images. #1 – WORK IT IN WALTER Love the Walter Van Beirendonck SNOW jeans with tight party top and bicep pads for wading in the jacuzzi, and a cute hat to block sun rays. Walter Van Beirendonck SNOW jeans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Filed under: Skin tight Take a look at Walter Van Beirendonck's amazing archive below: Walter Van Beirendonck archive30 Imagesview more + #2 – SEEING STARS WITH PAM I styled this shoot with Pamela Anderson in 2001. This is one of the first photos I ever styled, and this moment with Pam might be the most genius moment of my career. Pamela Anderson by David LaChapelle Filed under: David LaChapelle Check out our Pop Quiz with David LaChapelle here. #3 – RETRO HOMOEROTICA Art direction that looks like a baby did it is really speaking to me these days and Tony Ward is my everything idol beyond forever. Oh, Tony! Anal Magazine cover no 168 Filed under: Tony Ward #4 – BABY BROOKE The crimped hair and Brooke Shields' "fake best friend glamour" creative vision is perfect for a future shoot. Crimped hair and the hand on hip look – Lisanne Falk with Brooke Shields 1978 Filed Under: Jailbait 4 Eva #5 – REBEL REI Rei is killing the personal style game here and forever, she cuts glass. Rei Kawakubo giving Punk vibes in her biker leather jacket Filed under: Comme des Garçons #6 – WHEN DONATELLA MET DIDDY This arresting Puff Daddy collage by Ari Marcopoulos from the early 2000s caught my eye when I looked up "DADDY" on VFiles. NICE! Puff Daddy aka Diddy aka Sean Combs collaged in Versace Magazine Filed Under Versace: the magazine #7 – MILLENNIAL GISELLE I need to go back to 1999 to get these fucking pants back. They are mine. Gisele Bündchen in Vogue Paris, 1999 Filed Under: Vogue '99 #8 – THE ULTIMATE LATIN LOOK Perfection is perfected at The International Male. SS15 shoe research for all the European houses. A very impressive shoe spread. We'll take the white booties Filed Under: International Male summer 2001 #9 – ORIGINAL GANGSTAS So many feelings. #IMMATURE American R&B group Immature – loving that eyepatch Filed Under: Telfar's faves #10 – HARLOW GOES HAREM Shalom Harlow in Dior Couture SS97 is a perfect couture moment for all the gays. Shalom Harlow gets her fashion tits out in Dior Couture Filed Under: Fashion Tits Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORETrashy Clothing’s SS26 collection is lifting fashion’s veil of glamourA cult Chicago painter inspired Kiko Kostadinov’s latest showCrack is back at McQueen! Plus everything you missed at Paris Fashion WeekZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney ‘We must find joy’: Pamela Anderson on her starring role at Valentino SS26Ottolinger SS26 is coming for your girlfriends Casablanca SS26 prayed at the altar of HouseMatthieu Blazy blasts into orbit at his first-ever Chanel showCeline SS26 wants you to wear protection Anatomy of a fashion show: Sandra Hüller opened Miu Miu SS26Jean Paul Gaultier SS26: Inside Duran Lantink’s disruptive debutComme des Garçons SS26 was a revolt against ‘perfect’ fashion