The Boris show was beautiful, Jayjay’s casting was on point and the location was impressive, but since I stupidly forgot to buy an adapter for my camera’s charger, I had to shoot the actual show with a film camera. While I wait for the pictures to come back from the lab, here are a few ambiance images I managed to get before I powerlessly witnessed its temporary death. You will find here some close-ups of Boris’ latest experimentation on transparent leather. Somewhere between wow and yuk, you know? I also made a portrait of Boris and one of Jayjay.

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Please meet my friend Issa. I bumped into him outside the Maison Martin Margiela presentation. And when he’s not modeling for renowned Belgian designers (or what’s left of his house)—also work as a tattoo artists at the infamous TinTin Tattoo, Paris!

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No need for much introduction to this acclaimed collection. Apologies for the blurry images, it was the first show I attended to and I was just learning to use my newly acquired Canon Mark II… It got better in the next days as I realized that even at 2500 iso, noise is totally OK for digital use, allowing me to shoot at less than 1/200. Anyway, the collection was rightfully saluted as a highlight of this season, with references to religious outfits.

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The spectacular show offered a vision between Spring Summer Fall Winter And Spring, and Solaris. The impeccably tailored clothes defined silhouettes harmonizing the ample and the fitted, yet never looking stiff. It almost made me wish I worked in an office to fully enjoy the relaxed, airy style and smooth matters this collection offered.

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Damir Doma presented his menswear collection at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris on Saturday. Firmly grounded in the colours of the earth, his gentle warriors descended upon the terraced gardens in the dimming twilight. No longer on a gallant quest, Damir’s men seemed to have found their destination – in a grounded uniform that spoke a new sophistication of proportion, of light and dark, of drape and exposure.

Damir Doma Spring Summer 2011

“A new control emerges in the reverent uniforms of the scorched earth. From a cloistered existence, a gentleman walks through mineral landscapes. An unknown static breaches his calm, weaving a subtle gleam into old tradition. The disturbance becomes vestal, augering the age of experience. Innocence is shattered as a new harmony reigns.

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Born on a bed of stone, the Damir Doma man carries a hardness upon his back, carved at the shoulder in acute structure. His sleeves warp in batwing volumes; his torso is robed in a flat plane or lost in light folds. Carpeted in the fractured weave of woven cotton, he bears a new geometry – as disparate angles align in points of harmony.

Tones are volcanic, gathering momentum through a strata of pure greys, taupes and black. A print explodes as cosmic smoke, as white noise arrives in a second skin of knitwear and blanket shawls. Light coats carry a quiet drama, constructed in papery cotton gauze, washed linens and cashmere silk. His legs are softly bound in pleated shorts or a low sarrouel trouser, his head crowned by a sombre fez. On his feet, formal sandals are worn with knitted socks, or a low desert boot grounds his step.

Divining a delicate tension, Damir Doma aligns a timeless balance between opposites. The keystones of universal folklore become blurred in the chaos of today. In the eye of the storm, grace is born from instinct.”

I was very lucky to be invited to the YSL show (thank you to Guilhem and all the YSL crew). The collection blew me away. A very subtle—not all out—deconstruction of a classic wardrobe into partial pieces, still managing to respect the house’s legacy of classicism and elegance. Chapeau. Unfortunately, my positioning in the tiny venue and some technical mishaps didn’t allow me to take great pictures. Sorry

At the entrance of the building, was presented a movie by Ari Marcopoulos on LA tattoo artist Mark Mahoney. An interview with Ari and Stefano Pilati is coming up…

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I have so many images to process, it will take me some time to post everything, but please bear with me as I really fought to get the right placement to make good pictures of all the looks and then took the time to crop, balance contrast them for you to get good highres images of the shows…

To come asap: CDG, damir doma, yohji yamamoto, KVA, YSL, Givenchy, dior homme, dries van noten, Boris, Rick Owens…