Sophie Delaporte, born in 1971, is a French visual artist, photographer and director who began her career in the early 2000s by publishing her first fashion series in the British press, and especially in iD Magazine.
Historian and photography critic Vicki Goldberg wrote about her in September 2011, on the occasion of the Nudes exhibition in New York: “Sophie Delaporte is a French photographer who is on permanently good terms with fantasy and a cheerfully offbeat approach.
In March 2015, Sophie Delaporte exhibited “True Colors” [1] at the Joseph Gallery, a set of videos and photographs dealing with issues such as air pollution and the presence of chemical dyes in the food industry with the performer Melissa Mourer Ordener.
Some of Sophie Delaporte’s photographs for Comme des Garçons appears in the book “Fashion Game Changers, Reinventing the 20th Century Silhouette”, published in May 2016 at Editions Bloomsbury and on the occasion of an exhibition at MoMU, Antwerp Museum early 2016.
In March 2018, Sophie Delaporte directed the Balenciaga SS 2018 Digital Campaign for which Demna Gvasalia proposes her to take over and continue a series inspired by the Land Art she made in the early 2000s for i-D magazine.