In addition, he has done international ad campaigns for Lacoste, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, TAG Heuer, Celine, Louis Vuitton, Dior, GAP, L’Oréal, Revlon, Lancôme, Gianfranco Ferré, Brooke Shields, Elizabeth Arden, Farrah Fawcetts shampoo and Talisa Soto.ĭemarchelier has shot covers for almost all key fashion magazines, such as Life, Newsweek, Elle, Mademoiselle and Rolling Stone. He not only has worked for Vogue, but also for Harper’s Bazaar as well in 1992. Diana had contacted him after witnessing his photographs on Vogue’s cover. He was the first non-British photographer hired by the Royal family. Patrick Demarchelier became Princess of Wales, Diana’s personal photographer. He also worked with Grace Coddington and during her term at the British Vogue, Demarchelier attributed her in helping him to commence his career. He has learned from experience and according to him, from his mistakes, hence he keeps practicing like an athlete and keeps taking pictures. He first worked with a photographer who made covers for a film magazine later he became an assistant to a photographer, Hans Feurer, who worked for Vogue. His job was to print photographs for newspapers. When he was twenty years old, he left for Paris and started to work for a photography laboratory. During this time he learned the way to retouch negatives and develop film. From the age of seventeen, he developed a fondness for photography when his step father gifted him a camera, thus he started taking pictures of weddings and friends.

He has photographed the campaigns and covers for many high-ranking fashion house and publications. Patrick Demarchelier, born in 1943 and raised in a small town near Paris, is one of the world’s leading fashion photographers.

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