

He shot the Pirelli calendar in 2005, 2008 and the 50th anniversary issue with Peter Lindberg in 2014. No, it is the dog," he told the Telegraph in 2012. "When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. He has said that his favourite subject to photograph is his dachshund, Puffy. In October 2011, Demarchelier released the coffee-table book Dior Couture Patrick Demarchelier - a collection of photographs of Dior Couture pieces ranging from the very first collection by Dior himself in 1947 to those from Galliano's tenure at the house. The following year his work was the subject of a major retrospective entitled The Cult of Celebrity at Paris's Petit Palais. In November 2007, he was honoured as an officier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French minister of culture. He was the first ever non-British official photographer to the Royal family. She was funny and kind - but fundamentally she was a very simple woman who liked very simple things," he told the Telegraph in 2008. The boy was, in fact, my son, and Diana, maybe because of her little boys, loved that picture so much that she got in touch. I had done a picture for Vogue in which a model was opening her coat to show a picture of a little, laughing boy tucked into the inside pocket. In 1989, he became the personal photographer of Diana, Princess of Wales, who contacted him after seeing one of his photographs on the cover of Vogue.
