A Vintage Epic

So I've been talking about this shoot for a while now but here are some of the final images; see my website for the full story. The first thing you might notice is the crimping which I shall defend before you can say a thing! Now, the photog was terrified of it (of course coming round to it as soon as she saw the first look) with thoughts of the 80's screaming through her head. But I think it makes all the difference: it's both soft and feminine yet still surprising and eccentric. Simply curling and back-combing really wouldn't have created the same textures, and would have been too soft and girly next to the vintage dresses. However as a word of advice, I would suggest leaving it for those with long hair after a rather horrible result on my own short hair!

On our first day of shooting our model was Remia at Select, who was, at only 15, just amazing. She has one of the most striking faces I've seen, and really pulled off the British Eccentricity of the shoot. I totally love her in this red dress, an original 1950's number from Vintage Vanity, with the flash of studds and the Guccia at Larizia heels.



Latitaie is a gorgeous new face at Oxygen who shot the second day of our story. I particularly love the amazing straw boater hat I managed to find in the British Red Cross shop just off the Kings Road. It's one of the best charity shops I've been to recently with a whole rack of Ben de Lisi, Stella McCartney, Nicole Farhi among many other labels. But that day the only thing for me was the boater which looks fabulous on Latitaie with the maribu stork. Then as promised is the image of the printed leggings, which had a whole post devoted to them last week!