(L) Jean-Pierre Blanc, Director of Festival
(R) Karl Lagerfeld and The Princess of Hanover
The 30th International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères took place at the Villa Noailles between the 23rd and 27th April 2015.
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(R) Gregroire Alexandre photographed the looks for all 10 fashion designers in competition.
Chanel exhibition: as part of the 30th anniversary, Karl Lagerfeld was the event’s creative director and a fashion and photography jury was helmed by Chanel’s creative studio director Virginie Viard, and image director Eric Pfrunder.
(L) Examples of Lagerfeld’s photography archive for Chanel
(R) At Villa Noailles
(L) Sébastien Tellier, member of the Fashion Jury
(R) Festival attendees
(L) Last year’s photography prize winner Lorenzo Vitturi
(R) Olivier Zahm and Carine Roitfeld, members of this year’s fashion jury
(L) This year’s tote bag, with an illustration of Villa Noilles by Karl Lagerfeld.
(R) Overlooking Hyères
Villa Noailles
Festival attendees on their way to the festival at the Villa Noailles, in Hyéres, France.
(L) British photographer Polly Tootal in front of her urban English landscapes of ‘in-between’ spaces.
(R) The work of competing photographer Thomas Rousset, France
Crowd outside the “Self-branding through Instagraming?” conference with Jessica Michault, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, and Simon Porte Jacquemus.
In the the villa courtyard
(L) Elina Määttänen, shortlisted designer, womenswear, Finland
(R) Collection by Finish menswear designers Heini-Maria Hynynen & Elina Äärelä. All three of the Finish contestants were students at the Aalto University of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki
(L) Portrait of Anna Bornhold, Womenswear, Germany
(R) Inspiration sketches for her award-winning collection. Anna Bornhold won The Chloé Prize – a grant of 15,000 euros for her ombré jumpsuit handcrafted entirely of of yarn.
(L) The Grand Prix of the Jury Première Vision Award winner Annelie Schubert, for her womenswear collection “Aprons”, Germany-France.
(r) Menswear designer Guillem Rodriguez Bernat, from Spain, with a hat from his collection
Former fashion design winners. (L) Top from a collection by Canadian designer Steven Tai, winner of the Chloé Prix at Hyéres in 2012, who presented his winning collection at Berlin Fashion Week the same year.
(R) Ukrainian designer Yulia Yefimtchuk. Her collection selected for Hyéres 2014 won the Special Distinction of the Jury prize.
(L) A view of the “Sacred Defence” series by competing Polish photographer Wawrzyniec Kolbusz
(R) Photographer Sushant Chhabria discussing his work.
(L) Swedish photographer David Magnusson discussing his series of Purity Ball portraits of fathers and their daughters.
(R) Exhibition of photographer Evangelia Kranioti, winner of the Special Prize of the Photography Jury for her series “that tells the story of Greece, wandering, the solitude of sailors and their loved ones”.
Backstage
(L) A look from Heini-Maria Hynynen & Elina Äärelä’s runway show
(R) Annelie Schubert’s winning collection.
The Festival’s runway finale
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