Glen Luchford’s portraits place the actor in a campaign that revives Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1983 dialogue with the house.
Saint Laurent’s Winter 2025 campaign returns to black-and-white severity, casting Aaron Taylor-Johnson in a series of Glen Luchford portraits that channel Robert Mapplethorpe’s disciplined gaze. Each frame lingers on sculptural posture and deliberate styling, echoing the photographer whose work defined a generation of cool restraint.
Mapplethorpe’s bond with the house precedes the actor by decades: he shot a Saint Laurent campaign in 1983, and his personal uniform of polished leather and sharp lines still courses through the brand’s archive. Luchford nods to that history with tight crops and chiaroscuro light, allowing Taylor-Johnson’s stance to do as much talking as the clothes.
That dialogue spills into Saint Laurent’s Fall 2025 collection itself. Thigh-high leather waders—a focal point of Winter 25—trace directly back to Mapplethorpe’s own wardrobe and the downtown Manhattan nights he documented. Paired with lean tailoring, they tip the campaign from homage into living conversation between past and present.
