Mish Mash

I got this spread from the May 2010 issue of German Vogue shot by Alexi Lubomirski from fashion gone rouge, and interestingly I found myself thinking more about the title page than the shoot itself. I loved the colors and thought the layout was really clean and simple. The font captures the essence of the shoot and also matches Victoria's hair in the first image of the shoot. I haven't ever thought about title pages for shoots I've done but maybe I will start thinking about shoots in terms of the entire thing, title pages included. I only included the first two pictures of the shoot because they were the most interesting to me, but check out the rest of the shoot here.

I found this shoot on fashion gone rouge and I honestly couldn't stop staring at this first image. The blues of the background make her eyes pop against the contrasting tones of her face. Her face is absolutely flawless and I love the contrast of her smooth skin against the pearl head piece, her curling hair, and the lines on her black top. She looks so different in each of these images and the first one is particularly captivating: I just keep coming back to look at it.

Photographer – Rayan Ayash
Styling – Nadia Pizzimenti
Model – Irina Funtikova

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Vogue China May 2010

Natalia Vodianova was cast in a few shoots for the May issue of Vogue China as the feature model. She is one of my favorite models so I was really excited to see her in a double feature. I always find a youthful quality to her shoots in her innocent beauty and it is interesting that she still has that at 28. I find her very natural in her poses, her face, her body, and in the way she engages with the camera and that is one of the things I always try to look for when I shoot, or at least make appear as natural as I can. Her eyes are so engaging and that intense connection is one of things that make her so captivating. I feel as if the photographer wouldn't really have to work with her to get a picture, rather he is capturing and preserving a moment that she is already in.

I was a little surprised to see how similar the two shoots were. I think I would have loved them both equally if I had seen them published in separate publications, but because they are so similar and published right next to each other, I found myself comparing. The second shoot by Paolo Roversi won for me in terms of aesthetic. I thought the color tints in the first shoot were distracting, but maybe it was only because I was comparing it to a "cleaner" shoot where my view of Natalia was unobstructed. The light color tints don't bother me but the dark green and magenta colors in two of the shots seemed unnecessary. The lighting in each of the shoots is absolutely gorgeous, especially in the second one because it is apparent (without any tinting). I guess I just didn't see enough of a difference, stylistically and conceptually to have two separate shoots. They could have easily been combined into a large spread easily enough or changed one enough in terms of styling, backgrounds, tone, or poses to constitute two separate ideas. That isn't to say that there isn't a difference between the two shoots, because there definitely is, but I just didn't think it was dramatic enough to bring in two different photographers and call them different shoots.

Natalia Vodianova by Peter Lindbergh in Dancer in the Dream - Vogue China - May 2010

Natalia Vodianova by Paolo Roversi in The Seated Beauty - Vogue China - May 2010

Picture credits from fashion gone rouge

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Vogue Germany May 2010

I first saw this shoot on fashion gone rouge and wanted to share it. I think it is interesting how nude shoots are so normal in foreign publications, but I would never expect to see something like this in American Vogue. I could go on a whole rant about nudes, and I might do that a little later, but today I just wanted to share this shoot.

I love the desaturated tones to the color images, and the black and whites have a gorgeous tonal quality in the skin and water. The only thing I would have done differently as a fashion editor or photographer would have been to change the third image from the bottom, with the denim jumpsuit, because she seems too clothed and the denim just seems like the wrong texture and color for the rest of the shoot. Besides that little problem, I loved the shoot and the colors, textures, shadows, poses, and lighting. Beautiful work.

Georgina Stojiljkovic Nude by Ben Hassett for Vogue Germany May 2010

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Recent Favorites

Here is another collection of images I wanted to post for various reasons. Most of the images are found on Tumblr and various other blogs so most of them aren't credited. Let me know if you know any photo credits.

I want to have my studio in a tree house:

This image from lookbook reminds me of my mom when she was young:

From the sartorialist:

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