When Jacquemus dropped its first-ever book series, Images, the world went into a collective tizzy; doing anything and just about everything to find a way to track down the covetable coffee table must-haves. But after two editions and multiple pre-orders, we knew that a new book had to be fast-approaching; we just didn't know when – or in what form. Now, we finally got the news we had been waiting for. Photographer David Luraschi is releasing a new book filled with extended imagery from one of the most iconic Jacquemus campaigns to date.
Now, you're probably wondering, which of Jacquemus' campaigns isn't iconic? It's a valid question, no doubt. Luraschi, however, is the photographer who shot the Jacquemus FW17 collection. You know the one; deserted wetlands, dancers Claire Tran and Paul Girard enveloped on that chair under that umbrella. A campaign that undisputedly put Jacquemus on the international map; the images saved to the mood-boards of dreamers across the globe.
The new photographic book, titled, Ensemble, is a representation of the work of David Luraschi and Jacquemus laid bare. Luraschi is known for regularly collaborating with friends and close creatives – of which designer Simon Porte Jacquemus is one – and the images aim to highlight the inspiration both Jacquemus and Luraschi drew upon for the L’amour d’un Gitan collection.
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The book's official description reads; "a gradual, sensual yet tender series in which bodies mingle, fuse, and eventually are absorbed by the landscape that surrounds them... Luraschi builds on this wildness with his choreographed nudes, interlocked beyond individuality, always turned from the camera, fused in an oblique embrace; charged, tender, uncomfortable, intimate yet anonymous."
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If you happen to live in France and fancy a trip to Marseille; (also, the hometown of Simon Porte Jacquemus), you can catch the book launch and exhibition IRL this Friday. For the rest of us, pre-orders for the book are already live on the Loose Joints studio website.
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