James and I recently collaborated (for the first time) on this Refinery29 fashion editorial inspired by summer’s prevalent graphic, “ethnic,” and “tribal” prints. Rachel Hill, one of my oldest New York friends, styled it, Elsa Canedao created a complex array of braids for the three girls and Chichi Sato supplied the amazingly bright makeup and bold nailcolor.
I found a ton of amazing models by calling around different agencies with our pitch and ultimately chose three girls (Annaleise, Fabienne, and Mariana) from Trump, Supreme and Next.
The backgrounds are 12′x12′ acrylic paintings on set paper, created by sourcing African mudcloth, moroccan textiles, some prints from John Robshaw,and various woven fabrics. I tiled, cropped, rotated, enlarged, changed the colors and projected them the last few nights that lead up to our shoot.
Some of my reference
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Fashion reference: Suno, Noir, DVF, Louise Grey, Rosa Cha among others
What resulted were 10 really strong bold images that I’m super happy with.
Here are some iphone pix i took while working and during our shoot!
Annaliese wearing a Marc Jacobs bikini and Cheek-ie jewelry
Work in progress
Marianna in a handbeaded Herchovitch jacket, vintage mesh bodysuit, and Roarke necklace
I hope I get to do something like this for Dazed and Confused or i-D down the line!