中文简介：

在20世纪70年代，时装设计师Azzedine Alaïa和摄影师Arthur Elgort即将走上同一条道路，尽管他们还不认识对方。当时，Alaïa意识到时尚已经改变：现在人们更多地在街头欣赏时尚，而非仅限于沙龙内。同时，Elgort作为《Vogue》英文版的年轻摄影师正在构建新的摄影理念。他很快就定义了一种更轻松随意的摄影风格，并具有极大的自发性。Alaïa看到自己设计的女性服装在街头得到体现并被越来越多客户穿着后感受深刻；而Elgort则离开工作室、打开窗户、将运动和城市作为一个自然的新环境进行拍摄。两人都积极贡献于更新现代女性形象——她们充满自信、坚定与独立。

他们之间的长期合作将成为2023年1月22日至6月29日在巴黎Azzedine Alaïa基金会举办的展览主题，并促成了这本专著，其中展示了150多幅经典黑白照片。

英文简介：

In the 1970s, despite not yet knowing each other, Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort were about to go down the same path. The former realized that fashion had changed: it was now no longer so much in the salons that fashion had to be appreciated but in the street. The latter, Arthur Elgort, then a young photographer for the English edition of Vogue, was in the process of establishing a new vision of photography. His snapshots would soon define a lighter, more informal photographic style of great spontaneity. At the same time as the fashion designer was seeing his feminine ideal embodied in the street and worn by an ever-increasing number of clients, the photographer was leaving the studio, opening the windows, and taking over movement and cities as a natural and new setting. Both actively contributed to renewing the representation of the now assertive, determined and independent woman.

This long collaboration is now the subject of an upcoming exhibition in Paris at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa running from January 22 to June 29 2023 and the accompanying monograph, entitled Freedom, which presents more than 150 timeless classic black-and-white pictures.