In an unassuming art gallery hidden among the shops in West Hollywood, there is a quant, three room exhibit.
At the opening last weekend, various hipsters gathered out front, sipping Chardonnay.
Patrick Demarchelier has developed his career in the chaos of fashion and has traveled all over the world which luckily, he’s captured on camera for us to admire.
We started in a room of 60’s fashion photos, which was referred to as “The Bubble Girls” because of the pictures of models literally incased in large, plastic globes and placed in “hard to reach” locations, including an English river and in the trees of a European park. My friend and I searched for traces of Photoshop editing but realized that this type of technique didn’t exist back then.
As we leave, we pass by actor Billy Blaze and hear whispering that Jessica Simpson is in the building while Patrick McMullen snaps it all on film.
As we grab a pricelist my optimism is demolished as “The Bubble Girls” retail for 100k. Well, maybe next year…
Images courtesy of theFashionSpot forums and www.demarchelier.net.
