Backstage & Frontrow: Gauthier Gallet Photographs

Fashion photography and fashion drawing are not only images of creations, but creations themselves — productions of beauty, of outfit and of lifestyle. They mediate images of fashion’s fast trade which, as visual statements, are long-lasting, and extending beyond the day. In Unified Message photographers and draughtsmen carry on an unusual dialogue: photographs by Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, and Alexei Hay — three of the most important fashion photographers of our time — were questioned by Mats Gustafson, Ruben Toledo, and François Berthoud — three fashion illustrators of international renown. Here, the radiating power of fashion is seen in the interplay of images.