Exclusive backstage photographs by Erik Madigan Heck of Haider Ackermann’s Spring Summer 2011 show at Espace Vendôme on Saturday, 2nd of October, 2010.

In a reuniting moment from their first collaboration for Haider’s “A Carte Blanche called Opium” presentation at the Palazzo Corsini in Florence, Erik captures the next step in the designer’s work – an evolution in saturated, vibrant hues, flowing silken draping & a reinterpretation of biker leather in luxuriously hard yet feminine forms.

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