Fashion Week Marathon

While I was in Paris shooting the Fashion Week, photographers like Christophe Margot were in the mountains shooting the best Freeriders in the world during the first step of the Freeride World Tour... The difference? He was outside in a big fridge, I was inside under the sun of the runway spotlights with 15 others photographers and cameramen around me. That's all. Oh okay, that's almost all...

Fashion Week is always intense. During 9 days I shot 17 shows (Menswear Prêt à Porter and Haute Couture), I spent a long day covering the Who's Next, a fashion convention in Porte de Versailles, and I went 3 times to the Paris Hotel de Ville to shoot singer Paolo Conte, director Peter Brook and singer Alain Chamfort who reveived the Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris. I don't know exactly how many pictures I have taken, but I guess it's between 8000 and 10 000 pictures!!
 Sometimes I hate the Fashion Week, sometimes I love it. When I say I love it, I'm thinking about very nice creations designers make and also thinking about the most beautiful places in Paris we have to go to shoot the catwalks like Hotel Crillon, hotel Westin or hotel Meurice. Places that I would have never been if I didn't shot the Fashion shows.Thanks to Getty Images France for that!

Here are few examples of the shows I shot. More images can be seen on the Getty Images website.
Sorry for the big copyrights, but it was a hard work and these images must be sold if I want to pay my rent, my new MacBook Pro and my favorite cookies at the end of the month!

Ehud

Juun J.

Smalto

Smalto

Givenchy

Gustavolin

Walter Van Beirendonck

Wooyoungmi

Arnys

Arnys

Yigal Azrouel

Alexandre Vauthier

Alexandre Vauthier

Jantaminiau

Maurizio Galante

Yumi Katsura

Yumi Katsura

Best shot ever! (joke) We shot this show in a shop! It was the same crazy thing just behind me! It was so small that a friend of mine told me : "This was the first show ever that I left" and yes, he left the shop without to shoot it. This is why sometimes Fashion Week makes me crazy...