Until October 18, the Mondo Galeria presents Coutures, featuring the work of Joséphine Douet.
As the photographer explains:
“I’ve started to photograph the backstage of the Haute Couture in Paris at the beginning of the Millennium, before Internet and the communication obsession, when it was still a place of peace and concentration. We were only five photographers, always the same five, dancing like butterflies around the models dressed in utopic costumes, trying to be as invisible as we could.
The silence prior to the show, the slow movements, and suddenly that cry “line up!” . Then is when serious things start: models in a row, the last touch-up, outputs, and the rush to change clothes. But all without stridency, but with the calm given by extreme training.
Haute Couture is a place of disciplined madness. Hundreds of hours of work to turn a sketch into a real dream, thousands of pleats, sequins, appliqués and so many stitches given strictly by hand, in order to create a dress that can be worn only once. Fashion photography in these conditions has to bring fantasy, it is the fruit of a discipline imposed by the narrowness of the space. We must tell a story. Fashionable, but a story. Each image bringing the vision of the designer..
Passion comes together at that unique moment.”
Joséphine Douet
EXHIBTION
Coutures, de Joséphine Douet
Jusqu’au 18 octobre 2014
Mondo Galeria
San Lucas 9
Madrid
Espagne
