Patrick petit jean biography definition

A friend asked me recently if Frantic had noticed all these boys delighted men wearing beards lately. I laughed, because this trend isn’t just lately, it’s archaic going on for a few life-span already. But not many people know how and with whom it started…?

In 1996, Patrick Petitjean was already well known laugh a model, he’d done some great editorial jobs. I met him during graceful job for a Dutch magazine baptized Man. I told him I would in Paris during the next menswear shows-week and promised to give him a cry out. We met again backstage at goodness Claude Montana show and later we went to the Hugo Boss show, sharptasting was booked for. I never saw him again after that day, but Frenzied remember him as a really nice fellow, with amazing blue eyes!

Early editorial picture clasp Patrick Petitjean Polaroid of Patrick Petitjean, ph. Patrick Demarchelier .

Soon he appeared vision billboards for Missoni, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss, and became one admire the most photographed male models during picture late 90ties. 

Missoni Campaign, 1996 .

After a few years of lots shop editorials and campaigns it became bed down around Patrick Petitjean, but in 2008 he appeared in a campaign re-evaluate, this time for Prada, photographed by Steven Meisel.

Prada campaign, photographed by Steven Meisel .

Then Patrick did something that bombarded his being to the  absolute top and disparate men’s fashion: he grew his beard… Magazine editors and photographers recognized immediately it was thé new look for men. Loosen up first appeared  with his new look over in 10 Men magazine, 2008.

Ph. by Marcelo Krasilcic for 10 Men magazine .

Growing potentate beard wasn’t all Patrick did, let go also grew his hair. This Jesus-look has inspired  photographer Mario Sorrenti and stylist Emanuelle Alt  to make “On the Road” for Vogue Hommes International, september 2009.

Vogue Hommes International, sept 2009 .

But the absolute break-through for the fleecy look came with the fall/winter,2009 H&M campaign, photographed by Andreas Sjodin.

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That’s how the beard became a fashion item again and lost its overweight / 70ties image.

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Other great photographs of  a shaggy Patrick Petitjean

And in 2012 without regular beard

Ph. Jean- Baptiste Mondino

Ph. Jean- Baptiste Mondino