This first publication opened the door to Robert to publish his work in American magazines such as "LA Weekly", "Interview Magazine", "Harper's Bazaar" and "New York Times" Magazine. From that time Philippe Robert dedicated himself exclusively to photography. In 1987, he set up The Murder Ink production company with his friends Jean-Maue Ooghe (the television producer of the Tour de France for France Television since 1997) and Philippe Sikirdji. Thanks to Lionel Cros, a French fashion designer and image-maker, he discovered "la Haute Couture" and started to provide fashion images for French fashion magazines and their European editions. As he started to work as a fashion photographer, Philippe Robert met French major fashion photography figures. In 1990, while shooting his first series for the Italian "Harper's Bazaar," he shared the magazine's studio with Guy Bourdin. In October 1990, Philippe Robert photographed German "ELLE" cover. A Russian model, Ludmila Isaieva, was chosen for this historic cover of the first issue after German reunification. Top-models like Carla Bruni, French actresses such as Sophie Marceau, Mathilda May and singers, Lio and Sylvie Vartan posed for him in Lionel Cros outfits. Béatrice Dalle posed in Azzedine Alaïa. For Thierry Mugler, he shot top-models and his muses such as Brandi Quiñones, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, first in the outfits from Mugler's show in Palais de Tokyo in what they would later wear in George Michael's "Too Funky" video-clip directed by Thierry Mugler. This began for Philippe Robert a long and intense period of artistic creativity. For over 10 years he was assisted by Laurent Caron who created his own production company IOROPE, in the early 2000s. True to his education and artistic background, Robert collaborated in multiplies multiple ways that mixed fashion, movie and music. He contributed photographs for widely diverse publications. These included popular fashion magazines ("ELLE", "Harper's Bazaar", "Marie-Claire" ...) ; specialized press ("Max" : French and Italian editions, "Paris Match", "Photo", "VSD" ...) ; luxury magazines ("Ritz" ...) ; ambitious hype magazines ("City International Magazine", "Sans Nom" – ancestor of "Citizen K") and occasionally trash press ("Loaded"). Since the beginning of the 2000s, the photographer has experimented new photographic tools, including shooting with disposable cameras or mobile phones.