Azzedine Alaïa by Joe McKenna

Joe McKenna’s most enduring collaboration has been with unassuming couture genius Azzedine AIaïa. Having worked closely together since the eighties, in 2017 he paid tribute to the master atelier with this beautiful 25-minute portrait. Interwoven between interviews with iconic commentators we see ‘Papa’ Alaïa at work creating one divine creation after another, amid joyous archive footage of his secretive Paris townhouse shows in the early nineties. A sublime time-capsule of flowing garments and statuesque femininity at the birth of the supermodel era.