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.)

Cailin Hill (Premier London)

Everybody needs a muse or two.

I’m going to make sure that Cailin’s first and second tattoos make it to the pages of Sang Bleu III.

Angel and her leg piece in Terminal B Gatwick Airport.

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)

Archive images from the ‘Onto You’ series in SBII that didn’t make the page.

Body painting by Ari. Model Ocean Moon at Select.

When make up is applied flawlessly it is easy to overlook the expertise involved.

An acute understanding of the surface, instruments and materials, gradations of shade, unclouded lines and subtle suggestion combine to modify contour, poise and countenance while questioning the infinite variants by which we perceive beauty.

It is a temporary tattoo and once removed the evidence of its existence becomes an object of beauty in itself.

Hehe
The book is almost finished!
350 pages, but it’s gonna look gooooood!
aaaargh

Here is a little preview:
Jean-Luc Verna photographed by Claude-Hubert Tatot

the series that was once featured in SB0, but here in extenso
thanx andie

One of the wickedest collection I’ve ever seen. (With a particular taste for goats…)
With pieces by
Thomas Hooper
Mr X
Chad Koeplinger
Wido de Marval
Grimey
etc…

Respect

A nice archive of SBII
Sebas is tattooed by Hannes of Blut & Eisen, among others…
(Photography by Maria Trofimova & Matthieu Lavavchy)

Last summer, casting for the ‘Onto You’ story for Sang Bleu II, I met Friday. Her grandfather had won the Nobel Peace Prize and was honoured with a stamp. Eric Blose of Skull Kitchen Studio in Portland Oregon stuck it on her arm. The gorgeous Ocean Moon was with her.