College reunions don’t usually involve a cast of glamorous models and a slickly produced magazine shoot in a hangar-size photo studio in Paris. Unless, of course, your alma mater happens to be the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Antwerp, where the dream team behind this story—the photographer Willy Vanderperre, the stylist Olivier Rizzo, and the makeup artist Peter Philips—met and first collaborated in the early 1990s. “I remember when we started shooting together, it was just daylight and a reflector, and slowly the spotlight came in, and then studio lights,” says Philips, who is the creative and image director for Christian Dior Makeup. “Now Willy is a lighting virtuoso. And Olivier, well, he’s still a perfectionist.”
The same might be said of Philips, who has spent the past two…
