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Inez and Vinoodh photography duo

Tuesday in March, the second-to-last month of Fashion Month, is always reserved for Chanel. Tuesday morning at 10:30 AM, some things just never change. The invitations in tweed boxes were already a celebration in themselves, but what was inside was even more special. The work of ‘our’ photographer duo Inez and Vinoodh, who traveled to cold, misty, and mysterious Scotland to shoot a film that served as the starting point for Virginie Viard for her fall/winter 2022-2023 collection. For Chanel, the best of the best is just the starting point, so when they choose Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for their artwork, you know they belong to the absolute world elite. Because we sometimes tend to forget our own heroes, I gathered fifteen fascinating facts about this golden duo.

1. A golden duo. They met at the Vogue Academy in Paris. The noble Inez van Lamsweerde (she is a descendant of an old noble family) and Vinoodh Matadin. They have birthdays three days apart and are both Libras, which makes them, if you believe in it, destined to be the most romantic and balanced couple imaginable.

2. They are romantic, with a healthy obsession for flowers and flower arranging.

3. And they are the yin of each other's yang, because is there even a beginning and an end? Their posts are signed with ‘IV’, there is an account, they work and live together, with their son Charles Star Matadin being the crown on their already beautiful work.

4. Curious about the child of this royal couple? He is often seen on their Insta feed and has also produced the music for a campaign of @moschino that filmed his parents (and where Katy Perry also appears). Charles Star has an account, @mrmatadin, but with zero followers, zero following, and zero posts, it seems he is not extremely active with it.

5. Inez and Vinoodh belong to a small group of great duos. Besides Mert & Marcus and artist duo Gilbert & George, there is really no one who can tie their shoelaces or sweep their locks.

6. In 2004, they filmed Kate Moss dancing to Billie Jean. That was special because you almost never saw Kate dancing.

7. They shot campaigns for Dior, Calvin Klein, Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Moschino.

8. They did editorial work for Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, Fantastic Man, and so on.

9. They filmed the music video for Lady Gaga; Applause.

10. They have 666,000 followers on Instagram and can be followed at @inezandvinoodh.

11. They once had an exhibition in Paris where one of the highlights was a photo of the back of Drew Barrymore's head.

12. They have been living in Manhattan, New York since the last century. On the Lower East Side, they bought two apartments that offer over a thousand square meters of space and have ceilings over four meters high. Want to see it, kijk hier then just a moment.

13. Do you remember that amazing music video of FourFiveSeconds with Kanye, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney? They directed that too.

14. There is a book of their work published by Taschen titled Pretty Much Everything.

15. Julianne Moore says this when she hears that Inez and Vinoodh are going to photograph her: ‘I’m jumping up and down of excitement.’