Haute Couture & Runways
Behind the Lens: 48 Hours in Paris Haute Couture Week
Spero Haddad
Author & Master Photographer
Published November 04, 2025
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"Between backstage frenzy, fleeting runway strobes, and midnight hotel room sittings: an intimate diary of photographing the winter couture collections."
<p class="lead">Paris in January is wet asphalt, limestone steam, and the electric tension of Haute Couture. For forty-eight hours, the studio moves from the Grand Palais to secret salons on Rue Cambon.</p><p>Backstage is a flurry of steamers, seamstresses adjusting thousands of hand-sewn micro-sequins, and models moving through makeup chairs. In this chaos, finding stillness requires radical focus. You wait for the one second when the model turns away from the mirror, lost in thought—that is when the shutter clicks.</p>
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Atelier Spero Haddad
Spero Haddad is a visual artist and editorial photographer specializing in chiaroscuro fashion campaigns, celebrity portraiture, and fine art silver gelatin prints. Operating from ateliers in Paris, Milan, and New York.