YVES SAINT LAURENT - DAVID SEIDNER

Nuits a Contre-Jour
Designs: Yves Saint Laurent
Photography: David Seidner
Paris Vogue September 1991

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David Seidner Does Couture

Valentino Couture

Lanvin

Paco Rabanne

Christian Lacroix

Aux Couleurs Du Temps

Vogue Paris, September 1991

Photography: David Seidner

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YSL: THE ONCE AND COUTURE KING

A seamless shell of draped pink silk satin

YVES SAINT LAURENT COUTURE

Peach silk crepe: simply a sheath

YVES SAINT LAURENT COUTURE

A little black suit of quilted cotton damask,with black crocodile courts

YVES SAINT LAURENT COUTURE

Cream Severity in grosgrain silk, and a beaky lizard-trim hat

YVES SAINT LAURENT

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS

DAVID SEIDNER

Harper's Bazaar & Queen

June 1986

Photography: David Seidner

             1957-1999

             Left Behind Great Beauty

DAVID SEIDNER WAS HERE

A Hollywood sheath in black guipure lace, with a grass-green silk faille overskirt

YVES SAINT LAURENT COUTURE

DAVID SEIDNER WAS HERE

A Winterhalter figure in demure poka-dots: stiff,thick silk faille

YVES SAINT LAURENT COUTURE

DAVID SEIDNER WAS HERE

Stéphane Pompougnac - Villa Black feat.Juanita Grande broken wing

COWSLIP YELLOW DUCHESSE SATIN EMPIRE GOWN

DAVID SASSOON FOR BELLVILLE SASSOON

DAVID SEIDNER

HARPER'S & QUEEN  1987

Born in 1957 in Los Angeles, David Seidner started his career as a photographer in Paris; having moved there at the age of seventeen. At nineteen he had his first fashion cover and by twenty-one, his first one-man show at La Remise du Parc in Paris. The following year the young Seidner had a solo show at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. He remained based in Paris for most of his career working with Yves Saint Laurent, Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s & Queen, Vanity Fair and Vogue. 

MIST GREEN SILK TAFETA BALLGOWN  

TATTERS

CHAMPAGNE SILK EVENING SHOES - MANOLO BLAHNIK

DAVID SEIDNER

HARPER'S & QUEEN  1987

Throughout the eighties, his work had a major influence on fashion photography admired for the highly stylized fashion scenes he created inspired by moments in art history.

IVORY, SHELL AND FONDANT PINK DUCHESSE SATIN BODICE - IVORY SATIN SKIRT

CATHERINE WALKER

DAVID SEIDNER

HARPER'S & QUEEN  1987

CHALK GREY DUCHESSE SATIN STRAPLESS BALLGOWN - FONDANT PINK DUCHESSE SATIN BOLERO

DAVID FIELDEN

DAVID SEIDNER

HARPER'S & QUEEN  1987

Seidner’s signature style often used fragmentation and cropping techniques as seen in this portfolio for Harper’s & Queen. The imagery of this session is typical of his work in Paris in late 1986, which is said to have been influenced by the music of John Cage.

SPUN-SUGAR PINK SPOTTED TULLE BALLGOWN -CANDY DUCHESSE SATIN STRAPLESS PEPLUM BODICE

DAVID FIELDEN

DAVID SEIDNER

HARPER'S & QUEEN  1987

Typical of his signature style of this period, the face and body of the model is cut up and collaged together through multiple exposures, reflections in pieces of mirror, or by chemical manipulations in the printing.  Sometimes all of the above.

CHINESE IVORY AND OLD GOLD SATIN DAMASK SHEATH - SWEEPING ASYMMETRIC PEACOCK TRAIN

VICTOR EDELSTEIN

DAVID SEIDNER

1957 - 1999

LEFT BEHIND GREAT BEAUTY