Christian Lacroix, darlings, returned to Arles last month to curate the wonderful photography exhibition held there every couple of years.

As guest curator, Arles' favourite son chose the cute cock for the logo and poster, as well as the photos themselves. If you thought he would do a series of fashiony Vogue shots, you were wrong. He chose diverse, challenging images that he hoped caught the incidental - the details that make images matter.

In choosing the photographs for the exhibition, Lacroix said "I wanted to free myself of nostalgic sepia and black-and-white, and to play host to colour – the colours and nuances of friends and artists, of old and recent encounters and discoveries."

On Gregoire Alexandre's photo, he said " "His colour ribbons in the nighttime trees at a recent Hyères festival left me pensive; worry mingled with pleasure. I asked him to 'catalogue' both Histoires de mode, at the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris, and 'La Redoute'. In fulfilling these commissions, he went further than a merely well-accomplished assignment, informing them with the zen-like laser simplicity that defines contemporary poetry."

Poetry, pure poetry sweety, darling.