Beach Shoot for Dandy-Lion Magazine

I was asked alongside Naomi Farmer to style for Aisha's new magazine. The theme was beach in the Autumn time so we wanted to show how a style which is usually shown for summer could be translated to a colder time of year.
The idea behind this was to show summer dresses being worn with thick warm jumpers and socks. These photographs were taken by me during the shoot on my phone.
I have previously worked with Naomi and we find that quite often we will bring elements that work well together, for example the socks here.
The clothing was borrowed from a vintage boutique based in Bournemouth.
These behind the scenes photographs were taken by the photographer, Phoebe, throughout the day (which is why they are better quality). One thing Phoebe tries to do whenever she has a shoot is to take a group shot. Below is the team, from the left: Aisha (Director), Naomi and myself (stylists), Nikita (model), Phoebe (photographer), Charlotte and Jade (make-up and hair) and finally Larissa (photographers assistant).
These are the final edited photographs from Phoebe, I am so pleased with the outcome. I think they defiantly have the right balance of Autumn feel on the beach.
This is the final layout for Aisha's magazine layout. The magazine is called Dandy Lion and is a unique collectable magazine.

Tribal shoot

Earlier this year photographer Anna Michell, asked me to help her put together the looks for her 3rd year photography work. The original concept was based on the Rana Tharu people and the idea of living as a tribe as an independent community.
Although she wanted to base the styling on this, she also wanted me to put my own twist to it.

Because of all the drapery experiments I have recently been doing I suggested this as a way to easily create some of the clothing which would otherwise be quite difficult to find on the high-street.
Anna was really enthusiastic about this idea and readily gave me more inspirational imagery of the type of drapery that she liked.
Jewellery was something she really wanted to use, so I put together a mood board of high street finds which she edited to show me what pieces she liked.
As well as using bought jewellery we also collected hand made pieces which would give the clothes a more individual look. I found these disks which we made into a chocker.
These are some of the drapery experiments that Anna did with some of the materials. We chose to stick to burnt oranges and earthy colours.
These photographs are from the tester shoot. The shoot was taken at Winspit caves.
These are the final photographs. The idea of the shoot was a tribe of women. Each woman had a different role to play but they were mainly portraying strength.

Photographs from the January Shoot

I got the photo's back from the January shoot a while back now but I haven't updated my blog recently so I thought I would finally upload them.
We did two shoots throughout the day, in two different locations with two different models.

The 1st shoot we did was based in a studio with the idea of recreating a floating type effect. I used a selection of materials which were put onto the body and would flow easily.
As well as doing floating photographs we also did some standing slightly darker images using darker materials such as black lace.
The 2nd shoot we did was a night shoot. This is the 1st time I have done an outside dark shoot and we found it a challenge to get the lighting right which is why there is only a few final photographs.
Thanks to Lotte Simons for photography
Lydia Pankhurst for make-up
Bonnie and Ellie for modelling
All styling done by me.

Glastonbury Ready

So it has been a very long time since I last posted on my blog. This was due to my last project at uni taking up all of my time. I've now finished three years of university as a fashion student and will be graduating next week (currently awaiting my results). So I will be posting up the shoots and what I have been up to since February once I am back from Glastonbury.

In the meantime here is a photograph of what I plan on taking with me. Pacamac at the ready although I am forever hopeful that it wont rain.

Back in a week!