Let me tell you how things started. It all started renoun Canadian designer Yves Jean Lacasse. creating an amazing mask with real jewels. All the info is below please read.
I was called to photograph at Yves Jean's atelier Pascale Bourbeau. With my one single studio strobe.
Off I went to do the job. In front of a white wall and white wodden floors of his atelier. The rest as you know takes another life on it's own when it comes to my photographic works.
Basically you see my background photographed in Palermo at Palatine Chapel, a world heritage chuch grounds where also Moors used as worship grounds, became the spot to transport the first batch of images digitally. Now we are talking of middle ages. Not Renaissance. Second batch will be another blog. And it will be transported all to Venice by me from a simple studio session. Voila enjoy them. Now I leave the words to Yves Jean Lacasse.
The designer. " Designer Yves Jean Lacasse calls on his Muse Pascale Bourbeau and internationally renowned photographer Hera Bell for the image of his 2021 Haute-Couture collection which will mark the 26th anniversary of his fashion house ENVERS. For his next men's and women's collections, fashion designer Yves Jean Lacasse is inspired by the apotheosis of Renaissance artistic influences between France and Italy, his ancestral genealogical roots of Chenonceau and the iconic Catherine de Medici who built the famous galleries of the castle above the Cher like the Ponte Vecchio in Florance. Heir to the Medici line at the helm of Florance, cradle of the Italian Renaissance, Catherine became a strategic choice for creating a Franco-Italian rapprochement in the context of the Italian wars and the rivalries between Francois 1er and Charles Quint. In 1533 she married Henri the 2nd son of Francois 1er and became Duchess of Orleans. Three years later, the Dauphin Francois of France died suddenly. Henri d´Orléans then received the title of Dauphin and Duke of Brittany, before becoming King of France in 1547.
Catherine de Medici was crowned Queen of France in 1549 at the Saint-Denis basilica. It is around these historical influences that Yves Jean Lacasse called upon the Montreal-based Maison of Italian origin Sérafino, with whom he has worked for several seasons in order to integrate the know-how of Haute-Joaillerie into his unique creations. Tribute to Catherine de Médicis / Sérafino for ENVERS / Mask and sound - Envers Design Inc. by Yves Jean Lacasse. "
