Behind the Scenes with Jean-​​Luc | Paris Fashion Week: Mugler

get­ting access to the back­stage for a ‘major’ show is not that easy and that was the case with mugler whose pr office very kindly granted me an accred­i­ta­tion to the riser but would not allow me to prop­erly shoot behind the scenes …
what do you do in that case when you know you are not a proper run­way pho­tog­ra­pher and the pur­pose of your report is to cap­ture what’s going on before – or after – the actual show ? well, just like groupies out­side a con­cert wait­ing for their favourite band to show up, you hang around the entrance to that heav­ily guarded ‘secret’ place – in that case the ‘galerie de minéralo­gie’ at the national museum of nat­ural his­tory in the botan­i­cal gar­den – and you wait for the mod­els to arrive or hope that they will come out for a cig­a­rette or some fresh air … and this is how you man­age to snap the likes of simon ness­man, fran­cisco lachowski, adrien sahores, robert rae, arthur dani­yarov, vladimir rotar, christo­pher wet­more, dominique holling­ton, eric puzio, clé­ment chaber­naud, travis can­nata, louis gal­loway etc or even the label’s cre­ative direc­tor nicola formichetti him­self !
then, as you go inside the venue to stand on the riser with a crowd of pro­fes­sional run­way pho­tog­ra­phers and just like me you are on a lucky day you finally get a front row seat (which allows you to take a cou­ple of decent run­way pic­tures too) before finally suc­ceed­ing to enter the back­stage as soon as the show is over and catch more mod­els before they’ve already left to the next one …

mis­sion accom­plished for this 1st day, more to fol­low tomorrow !

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Roman Ivancic & Mikus Lasmanis by Dinah Hayt in Wild at Heart for 160g

Recently released, the July/​August edi­tion of 160 Grams as usual offers a vivid escape into the fan­tas­ti­cal world of fash­ion. Depart­ing for the woods, just in time for a mys­tic sum­mer sol­stice, Roman Ivan­cic and Mikus Las­ma­nis are fol­lowed by Dinah Hayt, who mag­i­cally cap­tures the col­or­ful occa­sion. Don­ning a provoca­tive wardrobe of great tex­ture and pro­por­tion, the mys­te­ri­ous duo are out­fit­ted by René Gloor, who curates a styl­ish mix of Romain Kre­mer, Juun.J, Vivi­enne West­wood and other engag­ing designers.

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Vladimir Ivanov & Roman Ivancic for Lacoste Fall 2010 Campaign

Vladimir Ivanov and Roman Ivan­cic for Lacoste fall 2010 campaign

Biblical | Lucien Thomkins, Roman Ivancic & Adrien Sahores by Milan Vukmirovic

Cast in the shad­ows, Milan Vuk­mirovic brings a gen­tle peace to his moody edi­to­r­ial for last month’s isse of L’Officiel Hommes China. Find­ing solace in iso­la­tion, Lucien Thomkins, Roman Ivan­cic and Adrien Sahores paint the ideal pic­ture of sensitivity.

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Citizen K Winter ²⁰⁰⁹⁄₁₀ | Roman Ivancic, River Viiperi & Others by Sven Baenziger

It is a dra­matic bat­tle of the red­heads for Sven Baenziger’s lat­est edi­to­r­ial for the win­ter issue of French mag­a­zine Cit­i­zen K. Fea­tur­ing Roman Ivan­cic and new­bie River Viiperi amongst oth­ers, bal­ance and wits are put to the test as sev­eral of spring’s mono­chro­matic num­bers are given a run-​​through.

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The Butterfly Man | Roman Ivancic by Tsipoulanis

But­ter­flies may apply a gen­tle calm, but in his lat­est edi­to­r­ial pho­tographed by Jan­nis Tsipoula­nis, Roman Ivan­cic boasts a dark hard exte­rior. Mask­ing a cer­tain sen­si­tiv­ity, styl­ist Andrej Skok crafts a rebel­lious look from leather, mesh and a plen­i­tude of safety pins.

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