Akris Designer and Photographer Thomas Ruff Reunite at Paris Photo

Albert Kriemler, creative director of the Swiss luxury fashion house Akris, and the German photographer Thomas Ruff reunited in Paris on Thursday, more than a decade after they last worked together.

The meeting took place at Paris Photo, an art fair held at the Grand Palais, where the medium is marking its 200th anniversary this year. WWD reported the reunion.

The link goes back to 2014. That year Kriemler approached Ruff about a collaboration, and the result appeared in Akris's fall collection, the range shown for the autumn and winter season. Ruff's swirling photograms, images made by placing objects on light-sensitive paper without a camera, became tulle ruffles. His 1992 night-time photographs of German homes became translucent studs, and his star photographs became LED embroideries.

At Paris Photo, two dozen of Ruff's works now hang across the 120-foot (about 37-metre) entrance wall. Five galleries took part in the display: Sprüth Magers, David Zwirner, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Mai 36 Galerie and Lia Rumma. It runs through Sunday, 15 November.

Kriemler also hosted a brunch for very important clients, press and gallery owners at the Akris showroom in Paris. He hung Ruff works from his private collection beside the garments they inspired. Afterwards, his group spent nearly 30 minutes with Ruff at the fair.

Ruff described his part in the 2014 project in modest terms. He said he had "just delivered the files" and that Kriemler "did the rest". He did not consider the work a collaboration.

The episode puts the two men's earlier work side by side once again, with the photographs on the wall and the clothing in the showroom drawn from the same ideas.