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116 2006 ART DIRECTOR Modem Accessories Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Cover by REMI BABINET Remi Babinet , President and Creative Director of France’s leading agency, BETC Euro RSCG, since its launch in 1994. Rémi Babinet is also since 2003 President of the French Art Directors Club, association that represents advertising creatives. From the beginning of his career, as a copy- writer at BDDP, Rémi Babinet was soon recognised as one of the best creatives of his generation, winning many advertising awards for his work on important accounts such as Polaroid, Virgin, BMW, McCain and Le Printemps. In 1994 , Remi Babinet left BDDP to found his own advertising agency together with Eric Tong Cuong. Mercedes Erra joined them soon after. Renowned for over ten years as a leading agency in terms of creativity, innovation and effectiveness, BETC holds a unique place in the industry. Named in 2002 European Agency of the Year (Ad Age Global) and most creative French advertising agency for 9 out of 10 years, BETC has carved out a brand image that is original and resolutely modern for its many clients - Evian, Air France, BNP Paribas, Peugeot, Orange, Canal +, Petit Bateau, INPES, Le Parisien - and regularly wins international prizes for its campaigns. As President and Creative Director, Remi Babinet has consistently challenged the traditional limits of creative advertising, opening up his agency up to new creative fields. In 2003, he inaugurated the Passage du Désir, a 1000 m2 space dedicated to fashion, design, painting, photography ( showing, amongst others, Hus- sein Chalayan, Yohji Yamamoto, Viktor & Rolf, Christian Lacroix, the ‘Festival d’Automne de Paris’, Rineke Dijkstra, Ruri and Joana Vasconcelos ). It is Rémi’s belief that advertising should be open to and engage with the world around it, thereby creating new ways with which to interact with society and consumers