11 June 2009

Styling Portfolio D

Kate Moss is huge in the UK, amongst other countries in the world. So when I flipped through the portfolio of the model, Sophie and saw a photo of her mouth slightly open I thought to myself- she has a Moss mouth! And as I pointed this out to the photographer and the make up artist we got super excited and Sophie kept pulling the Moss mouth drawl perfectly and so naturally. She resembled a young Kate Moss so much at one point we had to ask her to stop. Anyways this shoot collaboration was probably the funnest of them all. It was a shoot filled with hyperactive women, all talking on top of each other, criticizing, suggesting, and offering help. There was huge energy on set which made this beauty shoot run super smoothly. I am so happy with the results and already have Sophie in mind for another shoot. For Behind the Scene footage click here.

Credits

Title: SOPHIE GIRL
Photographer: ANNA FAYEMI
Stylist: WAFA ALOBAIDAT
Hair stylist : MELLI CENGEL
Make up artist: KETI NIKOLOVA
Model : SOPHIE DICKENS @ MODELS ONE











10 June 2009

Styling Portfolio C

I was just about to press the publish post button for Styling Shoot B when I remembered that Prim Magazine will be using it in their next issue and stopped dead in my tracks. Phew. Really want that shoot to be first published into the mag than unto my blog. So I'm skipping to Styling Folio C, a shoot in Kentish town's finest industrial warehouses and studios. Working with the model Angie was such a great learning curve for me because she moved moved moved. She walked into pitch black dark spaces filled with construction material, she climbed high up a ladder with Basso and Brooke platforms on, she curled on top of a Piano, and tested out every position we asked for. She skipped, flew, squealed and did about everything twice as hard as any other model I've worked with before. After working with Ng I started to expect a little more from models I began to work with. For behind the scene coverage of this shoot click here

Credits

Title: STRUT SEQUIN WAREHOUSE
Photographer: ANNA FAYAEMI
Stylist: WAFA ALOBAIDAT
Stylist Assistant: RAMBY
Hair and Makeup: Artist ANGELA DEVIATOVA
Model: ANGIE AT BOOKINGS MODELS







Prim Magazine Shoot











09 June 2009

Styling Portfolio A

I was saving all my styling folio work for my website but since I treat my blog as an informal carrier of my work it might be worth posting some of my most prized collaborative projects on here too. I am never going to forget the day of this shoot because it was such a great experience. We were a group of girls traipsing the streets of the Southbank with clothes, hangers, and photographic equipment in the freezing cold. It was outdoors, it was chaotic, it was what being in London is all about. For more behind the scene notes click here.

Credits

Title: SOUTHBANK DAY MUSE
Photography: ANNA FAYEMI
Styling: WAFA AL-OBAIDAT
Make -up: CHARLOTTE FISHER
Styling assistant: LUMA BASHMI
Model: Rosanne Ferraccu at Premier Models








07 June 2009

DIY 101

I have the longest list of DIY projects that I have put on hold forever. They include ripping my white jeans at the knees, ripping my grey tights with house keys, and deconstructing a grandma's knitted sweater with a needle. I also have a pile of clothes I need to take to a charity shop and recycle all my old magazines but that's another list of errands I have to tackle. For now settling into my new flat is a priority and some new art needs to be hung on the wall. Intead of oil canvas hunting I opted to rack my own art.

DIY Art Guide
Step 1 - Buy the book of illustration, Mistakes in the Background by Laura Dockrill from Urban Outfitters (8.99)
Step 2 - Buy two A2 gold frames from the local furniture store.
Step 3 - Rip out the funnest pages from the book.
Step 4 - Tape them together in some sort of story-line, the visible the tape the better.
Step 5 - Seal the frame and hang.




Mickey Mouse Ring

Subscribing to the East End Thrift Store newsletter means I get dibs on jumble sales and vintage store slumber parties where you get to try on all their new gear over free drinks and social chatter on Thursdays. So I took my wee self and my vintage partner Luma to the East End Jumble Sale to the rummage around through piles of clothes on the first floor. We found poeple rolling up vintage finds into ten, twenty, and fifty pound bags. Unfortunatley there wasn't much to my liking so we opted for the designer sale on Brick Lane to find that wasn't very interesting either. After a quick macaroni and olive snack I came across a stall that sold the funkiest rings. After trying all of them on I chose the huge unusual Mickey Mouse ring which has gotten a lot of attention everytime I took it out so far. Too bad the stall was nameless and I can't credit the designer but I am going back for the 3D camera necklace.

East London Thrift Store - Jumble Sale





Mickey Mouse Ring Stall



Vintage Partner -Lumzster
Find of the day - Mickey Mouse Ring