In Paris for the past few days photographing the couture collections as well as some Atsuko Kudo pieces. Temperature was 30+ . Nice and sticky.

Me & Diane @ the Maison Martin Margiela SHow (see previous post)

Marcelo Burlon showing off his tats.

Group shot (see previous post)

Last thursday was the launch party of the first special edition of Sang Bleu. Publioshed in collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The book launch was a nice succès. Everyone seemed to like the result (so do I!).

The rest of the week was dedicated to the planning of SB which is going to be pretty amazing, I think, and enjoying fashion week with Lotta Volkova aka Lotta Skeletrix and Alban Adam, guest editors of SBIII. Fashion week was pretty fun although a bit disappointing fashion-wise. I had the pleasure to (finally) meet lots of very interesting people such as Diane Pernet from A Shaded View On Fashion, Jason Farrer, Marcelo Burlon from Rodeo Magazine and his lovely friend Marchi Marchell, Samuel from Encens Magazine, the editors of Dong Magazine, SOLO from the oldschool french hardcore rap group ASSASSIN, the djs of Dirty Laurent Fétis the famous french graphic designer, even bumped into Pharell WIlliams and Kanye West at the Vuitton show and so on and so on… Images to come later this week as I sort my digitaly pix and process the rolls…

Here are a few images of tattooed people I met on this occasion. (Tattoos by Tribal Act, Boucherie Moderne, home-made, etc.)

a quickie…

two little birds tattooed by Wido de Marval on Marietta’s ankle.

(photographed on her exam day!…)

Recently someone told me they thought everyone on this blog looked pretty miserable. I’m hoping this will make up for it. Top is Natalia. Below they remained anonymous. I think he’s only smiling because I agreed to buy him a beer in exchange for his photograph.

José at Cerveceria Casco Viejo and his 36 year old Supertramp Indelibly Stamped inspired artwork.

Those eyes don’t lie, José’s the Man.

another beautiful collection
especially the unusual engraving-inspired pieces by Wido de Marval
(especially—sorry for the redundancy—the amazing God-chestpiece!)

Simon will be here (and more of Heidi) once the film is processed.

I like big tattoos, I like small tattoos. Never mind the size, it’s all about the fitting. Like a ring or a suite, you know. Tattoos can, just by themselves, make you look like a walking god or a miserable creep. (Obviously, most won’t do either, but will just emprove or degrade your appearance a bit.)

Here is what I consider a good example of the former: Senta’s unique, microscopic but exquisite “clin d’oeuil” to Warhol.

work in progress my Mick (Zurich)…
(sorry, tired today… won’t write much…)

Two of the (many) photos I made…
I am so fan, I wanna don’t disclose them all at once, but keep posting in the next weeks!
There will also be an extensive feature on F in SBIII…

The man himself

A Vivienne Westwood ring. Everything is said.

The cover to the first SB book.
In collaboration with the Pavillion/Palais de Tokyo, Paris and swiss artist Emmanuelle Antille.
Out on the 26th of June! More about it in the “coming next” section.

As I was about to try and blag my way inside Art Unlimited in Basel, Switzerland, from afar, I saw a geezer who looked familiar. Cryptic handmade tattoos, long hair, svelte silhouette. As I took a few steps towards him I realized this probably was Fergus, this mysterious guy I had received a couple of pictures of in for SBII. I had to figure this out. With the nicest smile Fergus confirmed he indeed was… Fergus.
What an amazing and pleasant surprise. Not only does he have one of the most interesting tattoo collection I’ve had the pleasure to see, but he’s the nicest person ever.

Tomorrow, we will meet at the Patty Smith signing then have a little interview for SB III. Clare Hilland will take some portraits of him to go with it. Today was a good day.

(Photos by Clare Hilland)