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Karim Sadli on Family, Vanessa Paradis and Shooting for Chanel

PARIS — Karim Sadli is reaping the benefits of his busy spring season. This fall will see the release of the photographer’s fashion editorials in Vogue Paris, Vogue Homme and The Gentlewoman, the cover of L’Uomo Vogue and his first Chanel fashion campaign. Yet his parents still ask him the same question as when he first started out 10 years ago: “Did you get paid?” “My family took a while to understand how fashion photographers work,” said Sadli, lounging at a café terrace in the Marais on a slow August afternoon. “They couldn’t get their head around the fact that you have to pay editorial expenses upfront, and you are actually paid once the magazine is released. They struggled with the idea that I had to spend money to work.” Karl Lagerfeld’s name, though, elicited a different response. “I don’t come from a fashion background: Both my parents were factory workers,” said the 39-year-old photographer, who was born and raised in the Parisian suburb of Argenteuil. “So the only fashion designers we were aware of growing up were those who were in mainstream media. Basically, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl.” After collaborating with the fashion house for two look books, Sadli, who

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