10 Nov 2026 · City Files
MEP: PENN & FASHION
Penn’s fashion pictures treat cloth as structure: volume, edge, and the space around a figure. The MEP address puts that archive inside a Marais institution built for photography rather than retail. For BRII, the interest is how a fashion image becomes an object of study—print, scale, sequence—when it leaves the magazine page and enters a gallery.
Photo: Bret Lama (@bretlama) / Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/cqzB49fJimc Licence: Unsplash License (commercial/social use permitted; credit given; do not sell the photo unaltered)
Unsplash License. Stand-in photograph; not an Irving Penn print and not MEP press imagery.
Stand-in image, not an Irving Penn photograph or MEP imagery.