LRNZ Shot Kate

After Saturday's fitting with Vidal Sassoon (which I will post more about and yes it was quite an exciting new project!) I did a very quick and fun shoot with Lorenzo and Kate.
I love how this just fell into place and everything went well even the drizzle, wind and rushing around helped with the overall mood of the shoot and we welcomed it all. It's great to create something from being spontaneous and things just falls into place. An intense rainbow appeared over Kate which I count as some sort of blessing.

Photographer: LRNZ D.

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Model: Kate Eales

Special thanks to Amy Cerklewicz, Lauren Pharoah, Nano Aoshima, Jonathan Jepson, Jungo Kuroiwa & Wonjee Chung.

Riy_ka S/S 2012

A couple of weeks back we did a shoot for Riy_ka's next season collection.

I was looking forward to working with Rebecca again whom I thank for getting me on board and who I congratulate in getting newly wed the day before. 

Here is what we got up to and the random photos I took. I adore these polaroids taken by Anya as well as her shoes and Amy's clog sandals!

Collection: Riy_ka (Rebecca Johnstone)

Photographer: Anya Holdstock

Make up: Amy Conley

Model: Ellie Weston

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

RIY_KA

Autumn/Winter collections are certainly in the shops already so I thought it befitting to introduce you Riy_ka's Cana Cana: AW-11/12  collection that I styled the lookbook for last April. Great designs, the panelling inspired by tribal patterns but modernised in a refreshing modern twist of casual wear pieces with the use of leather, jersey, denim and cotton. 

Below is the lovely designer Rebecca Johnson next to her SuperMarket Sarah Wall where you can now purchase her pieces and will also be available soon from Beyond The Valley!

... and there's me looking a bit fresh off the boat with no make-up on but I'm sharing it with you all because it's sweet!

Designer Collection: Riy_ka

Photographer: Ludovic Des Cognets

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Make-up & Hair: Nicola Moores

Model: Carola Insolera

Little Book of Horrors...
A quick shoot with Tean Roberts for magazine Ballad Of... 'Little Book of Horrors' submission.
Having read through their brief and seeing the images they've put up I've started doing more research around Wednesday Addams, vampirish images involving kids and inspiration from more earlier take on vampires and monsters as well as inspiration from Victorian ghost photography.
Having worked for the first time with a child model it was incredibly fun, relaxed shoot that lasted only half a day! Tean using her new polaroid back for her Hassleblad, she created some double exposure photographs that has a very eerie/ghostly quality.
Really wanted to portray the child as the empowering one over the adult, giving the audience that unease feeling of what this supposedly innocent child is capable of blah blah.

Here is one of ideas I put together and what we were aiming for...

The final images looks amazing but of course I can't show any of it until some news from our submission. Fingers crossed!

Photographer: Tean Roberts

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Model: Lora & Ella

Into the woods....

Photographer: Ludovic Des Cognets

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Beauty: Sunanda Mesquita

Model: Carola Insolera

Just wanted to add a couple more behind the scene pics of the photoshoot with Valentina, these are courtesy of Valentina Vos.

Last Friday I had a great opportunity to work with the lovely photographer Valentina Vos and make-up artist Alicia Mew again. The concept behind the editorial is to have looks each one consisting of one colour. For example one outfit in just orange, another blue, purple, green etc covering the rainbow spectrum!

Colour blocking is very in at the mo but for our shoot I was thinking each outfit should only be one colour in different tones and mixing a few different layers of clothing and textures, I love the use of mixed textures, patterns and colours.  It's simplifying the colours which is a different take on 'colour blocking'. 

Very relax shoot and apart from a cancellation and change in model the day held up for us. Alicia did a great job in keeping the make-up and hair very simple but striking and picked colours that clashed with the outfits. Looking forward to the final results!

Photographer: Valentina Vos

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Make-up & Hair: Alicia Mew

Model: Roksana, Models1

New York - New York

Ok so I have been neglecting my blog recently as I have been fairly busy. My friend Samantha from San Francisco came back home to London for a visit, I've attending a few events and gone to places with her etc and then I decided last minute to tag along with her to New York. Had a busy week of roaming the shops around Manhattan, Brooklyn  so that's why I haven't had much time to sit down and type.
I am now back home and would like to say that I got the chance to attend Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum and it was amazing to just get that up close and see the craftsmanship of his genius!  I would say it is the best fashion exhibition I have attended hugely because I am a massive fan of McQueens work, Victor and Rolf exhibition at London's Barbican comes a close second.

Anyway here are some of my quick snaps I took from the exhibition just to give you an idea of its amazingness. There are a lot more to see, we were there for nearly 2 hours! If you ever get the chance to be around the city, go... because its worth it!