As a student at L’École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris photographer Damien Blottière studied fashion. Duperré’s emphasis on the applied arts introduced Blottière to the world of fashion, but through various stints as fashion editor for Mixte, Purple, and Dazed & Confused his full embrace of photography was realized. Blottière’s surgically precise photographic collages are used to illustrate the future in VMAN 24 Winter 2011, the “Decades Issue.” Titled “The 2020s: The Shape of Things to Come,” the editorial places Ford Men’s AJ Abualrub, CJ Hancock, Nicholas Madrid, Michael Wozniak, Paolo Anchisi, Petey Wright, and Ethan James under the artistic knife to achieve dramatic results. Tom Van Dorpe-styled looks drawing from fall collections by Calvin Klein, Versace, Paul Smith, Comme Des Garçons, Lanvin, Burberry Prorsum, and Ermenegildo Zegna see to it that Blottière’s cut ups are derived from menswear’s highest pedigree. Future or not, Blottière’s vision isn’t so much an Orwellian boot stamping on a human face as it is slicing it to ribbons — forever.

Credits include: Publication, VMAN 24 Winter 2011 / Spring 2012 Preview; Title, “The 2020s: The Shape of Things to Come”; Photography and artwork, Damien Blottière; Styling, Tom Van Dorpe; Hair, David Von Cannon at Bryan Bantry Agency NYC; Grooming, Adrien Pinault at Management Artists using Nars Cosmetics; Models, AJ Abualrub, CJ Hancock, Nicholas Madrid, Michael Wozniak, Paolo Anchisi, Petey Wright, Ethan James all at Ford Men; Photography assistance, Nicholas Ong; Styling assistance, Karen Wisdom, Anna Stockland; Retouching, Lagen Paris; Location, Fast Ashleys Brooklyn; Image source, Artlist.