23/02/2025
If Vivian Westwood and Colorama made dresses 💃
This is a story about collaboration. We had just arrived at the studio and were discussing what look to start with as a warm up set. Meg shared an image of a woman holding a roll of crumpled paper, it was beautiful, but not something she could pull out of her suitcase. Regardless I was keen to see what I could do.
I was chatting with Xiaobo, co-owner of the studio who happily had some old colorama that they planned to throw out. That left me to crumple the paper and figure out how to suspend it whilst Meg applied some subtle but strong make up. I hung the paper under a skylight hoping to use the daylight from above.
The morning was rather overcast so I also added a bit of fill light, but as we got shooting the daylight filled the room and that created the more dramatic overhead light that I wanted to help bring out the texture in the paper.
A few frames later and the inspo shot was a distant memory as it was becoming apparent that we could make a dress out of the paper. I asked Meg to get some shoes and she was keen to change her hair. The look was now much more refined. The final adjustment was some subtle tears to the top of the dress. The idea being to remove the empire line look and create the corseted shape you can see here.
Ninety minutes, a gift of a few meters of old paper, some daylight and two people who share a creative connection. That is the sum of these photos.
Thank you Meg, you rocked this look 🤘
Scroll for the BTS, I love Meg’s expressions!
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