Azzedine Alaïa – Peter Lindbergh exhibition, Paris in may 2021

Azzedine Alaïa, Peter Lindbergh

Two talents that have written a page in the history of photography and fashion.
The Peter Lindbergh’s and Azzedine Alaïa’s works converse in a common spirit that has never wavered.
Exhibition curated by Benjamin Lindbergh and Olivier Saillard. With the support of the Peter Lindbergh Foundation
Photo: Azzedine Alaïa & Linda Spierings, Le Touquet, 1986. © Peter Lindbergh (courtesy Peter Lindbergh Foundation, Paris)

Under the direction of Benjamin Lindbergh and Olivier Saillard
– dates are subject to change due to the covid 19 pandemic

For its first exhibition of 2021, the Foundation is proud to celebrate two great talents who made history in photography and in fashion.The works of Peter Lindbergh and those of Azzedine Alaïa have been brought together and dialogue with one another in a community of spirit that has never weakened.

Like the artistic confluences that united Richard Avedon and Christian Dior or Yves Saint Laurent and Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa found a common territory where each of their expressions seeks to reflect the other’s.Without saying a word, the photographer and the couturier were united by their love of black, a love that they would cultivate alike, be it in silver print or in solid color garments. Lindbergh ceaselessly turns
 to black and white to signify his search for authenticity in the faces he brings to light. Alaïa draws on 
the monochrome of timeless clothes, veritable sculptures for the body.Each of them finds there in this impression of poetic realism that magnifies the subject before satisfying their own creative ambitions.

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