Once again the annual Wallpaper* pilgrimage to Le Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères was completed in style. The heart of the festival is the Villa Noailles, a landmark cubist villa designed by Mallet-Stevens in the 1920s, which amongst its many quirky rooms, knooks and crannies holds the main body of work. From fashion to photography, it's all scattered throughout the villa, and you could just as easily find yourself looking at the most recent Christian Lacroix creation in the indoor glass-covered swimming pool, or in the squash court surrounded by Viviane Sassen raunchy photographs.
After a weekend of scouring the Villa Noailles and meeting some of the best new talents in photography and fashion, you'd forgive us for letting our hair down. So, after a long long lunch at Club 55, staring at mega yachts and the mega rich, we took the jam-packed twisty road back from St Tropez for the 2007 award-winners party.
Each year we decide on a photo portrait theme, a sort of ice breaker to meet some of the people we didn't get round to talking to during the weekend, and have a bit of a laugh with those we did. Some previous themes have been 'Blue Steel' and 'Hip Hop', but this year we'd brought a pair of pre-emptive hangover glasses. If you don't know what these are the following edit will make everything clearer!
'Look into my eyes. Look into my eyes. The eyes. The eyes. Not around the eyes. Don't look around my eyes. Look into my eyes... You're under.'
Christian Lacroix, fashion designer
Diane Pernett, fashion commentator
Harri Peccinotti, fashion photographer and art director
Jean Pierre Blanc, director of the festival since it began 20 years ago
Joël Tettamanti, photographer, and winner of the Hyères festival in 2002
Mae Delaney, Another Magazine photographic editor
Martin Saunier, Pressing press officer
Michele Mallard, creative director of the Hyères festival
Andrew 'Terry World' Wren, Wallpaper* Bespoke art director
Does anyone know this man?
DJ Marco
Dominic Bell, Wallpaper* designer
Sebastien Clivaz, Wallpaper* men's fashion editor
Meirion Pritchard, May 4th, 2007
