Simon Procter (born 8 November 1968 in Lancashire, England) is an expatriate British artist and photographer who has collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood.
Procter was born in Lancashire, Northern England, and grew up in Royston, a small mining village in South Yorkshire.
In 2008, Vivienne Westwood created a photo series with Simon Procter called "The Magic of Fashion" with the Harry Potter film actress Emma Watson.
In 2009, Simon Procter met John Galliano and created with him for the Dior Haute Couture collections with Harper's Bazaar, opulent scenes with models and horses, as we know them from battle paintings from the late Baroque and Renaissance periods.
He has portrayed artists such as Kanye West, Morgan Freeman, Pharrell Williams, Emma Watson, Florence Welch, Natalie Imbruglia, Laetitia Casta, Eva Green, Saoirse Ronan and Ellie Goulding, Mila Kunis, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Marine Vacth.
Even fashion designers have been portrayed by him, such as Giorgio Armani, Stella Tennant, Olivier Theyskens, Hussein Chalayan and Ajuma Nasenyana.
On the occasion of Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the seven-day Royal Ascot horse race became one of the most important events of the year.
Simon Procter created an elaborate photo campaign with fashion designers such as Stephen Jones, Vivienne Westwood and Dior.
The artist Berndnaut Smilde had developed an interior cloud and Procter photographed it with the five most internationally famous fashion designers: Karl Lagerfeld, Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce, Alber Elbaz and Donatella Versace.
[9] Procter then used his unique art aesthetic to develop a photographic technique that captures and documents the large scale of a fashion show in the architectural space in which it takes place.
Simon Procter is dedicated to immortalizing the majestic shows of fashion houses such as Chanel, Dior, Lagerfeld, Prada, Givenchy, Valentino and the designers have their haute couture shows documented by Procter worldwide on behalf of Stella McCartney, Diane von Fürstenberg, Michael Kors and The Veil.