Upon his arrival in Paris in the early 1960s, Herve Nabon had already won several prizes for his photographic work, garnering him significant attention in the advertising realm. As he settled in Paris, the photographer began regularly collaborating with the renowned fashion magazine Le Jardin des Modes.
 
Nabon rapidly caught the eye of the Beauty magnate Elizabeth Arden, who commissioned him to produce campaigns for her cosmetics empire. From then on, Nabon entered long-lasting collaborations with such prestigious clients as L’Oréal, Pernod Ricard, Mercedes, El Corte Ingles and later Club Med, Paco Rabanne, Evian, Louis Féraud
 
Creative partnerships through which he encountered opportunities to shoot amongst the first photographs of Andie MacDowell, Stephanie Seymour, Elle McPherson, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Carol Alt, Janice Dickinson, Isabelle Adjani and many more over his career.
 
His archive remains for the most part untouched and unseen: a treasure that documents the evolution of advertisement.