this week's obsession - serge lutens

ca. 1965

1972

with photographer guy bourdin for paris vogue, 1970

serge lutens in morocco

the moroccan home of serge lutens

jun rope by serge lutens, 1978

photographer, filmmaker, hair stylist, make-up artist, perfumer, art director & fashion designer. what didn't serge lutens do? (and do extremely well) his images were such a huge influence on me growing up - they were so exotic & beautiful & well, weird & i loved them.  they were everything i was not & everything i aspired to be & do.  what's amazing is how well they have held up & how current & relevant they still are. love.love.love.

serge lutens' moroccan hideaway

serge lutens' house in located in the heart of marrakech's medina. lutens designed virtually everything, "you could call it an obsession", says lutens of the house, which has been under construction for the past 35 years. the reclusive lutens doesn't even sleep here; he spends most of his time in a small studio outside town. the house "chased me out" he says. he wonders whether, like a writer who's terrified of finishing his novel, he has sometimes invented excuses to stave off the project's inevitable end. "there are times where you just have to be completely occupied," he says, "otherwise you fall apart." (from w magazine)