The After Image

PHOTOGRAPHED AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION BY LUDOVIC LYNE @LUDOVICLYNE
STYLED BY MAXIME VANDERLINDEN @MAXIMEVANDERLINDEN
MODEL LUCAS SCHLACHTER @LUCASSCHLACHTEROFF
MAKEUP BY BÉRÉNICE FOURNIER @BERENICE_FRN_MUA
STUDIO LUDOVIC LYNE @LUDOVICLYNE.STUDIO
WARDROBE CREDITS
STUDIO LUDOVIC LYNE PRIVATE COLLECTION SS26

Act I –
Ashes & Wilted Memories


In a world where imagery has already consumed everything, a lone silhouette remains,
wearing dead flowers against his skin like silent relics.
The editorial explores a fragile, spectral masculinity, somewhere between 90s couture
and post-apocalyptic aristocratic aesthetics. Dark textures, cold skin tones and worn
materials compose a corrosive form of luxury, where garments become asymmetrical,
imperfect emotional armors.
Everything appears beautiful, yet exhausted by time.
Like a memory too precious to disappear.

Act II –
Dust-Faded Archives

Something has changed. The flowers have disappeared – the softness too.
The silhouette becomes colder, sharper, almost feral. The gaze is a constant tension; the
body, a mechanism under pressure.
Imagery has replaced identity.
The editorial explores a cold, sculptural vision of masculinity, suspended between indus-
trial rigidity and silent vulnerability – the transformation of the same altered character.
Monochromatic lighting reinforces the feeling of frozen memory, as though each image
belonged to a contaminated archive.
Where the first chapter spoke of inner fragility, this one explores control, tension, and the
violence of collapse.
The same look still exists, but stripped of its romanticism – as if emotion itself had been
consumed, leaving behind only a hard, silent, sculptural elegance.