After the resounding success of the Fashion For Sidaction auction organized at the end of January 2021, having collected the tidy sum of 212,550 euros for AIDS research, the association of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and its vice-president Line Renaud is back. on the front.
In collaboration with Picto Fondation, it is organizing a sale of fashion photographs under the artistic direction of Jean Paul Gaultier, ambassador of Sidaction.
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Sixty-seven international photographers each offer an image in twenty-five numbered copies.
These some 1,675 photos will be sold online on the fashionforsidaction.org website at the single price of 250 euros.
The list of participating photographers is impressive, including artists such as Erwin Blumenfeld, Jean-Paul Goude and Pierre Boulat.
Many iconic shots will be offered, such as the famous portrait of Madonna in a pink corset signed Jean Paul Gaultier, captured by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
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The pop-up sale will coincide with the dates of Paris Fashion Week.
It will start on June 22 at 2 p.m. and end on July 8 at 8 p.m.
All the information on the sale and the snapshots put up for sale as and when can be found on the Instagram account of the initiative @fashionforsidaction.
Once sold, the photos will be printed during the summer and then shipped by post worldwide from September.
For those who have always dreamed of affording a piece of fashion history without ever taking the plunge, this operation is a perfect opportunity, which also helps support research on HIV.