liquid luxe…

William Wilde designs primarily in latex. We shot this look book to showcase his new collection ‘Vixen, Kill, Kill”

Hair and Makeup by the talented Steph Lai

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Stylist Kelvin Barron
Hair Vicki Lord
Makeup Paula Valencia

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TFNC asked me to create some new images to update their site. Fun shoot. Thanks to Olivia at TFNC for organising everything.

MUA and Hair: Gigi Hammond

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Came across these in my archives. Simple look book for Jeannie McQueeny.

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I shot this just before christmas…

Styling: Sarah Nash (Carol Hayes Management)
Makeup: Megumi Matsuno (Carol Hayes Management)
Hair: Akio Nishiyama (GC Agency)
Model: Inga at Nevs

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I was commissioned to shoot this editorial for Labb Magazine but then they went and folded didn’t they? What can you do? Enjoy!

Styling Kumiko Yashiro
Makeup Steph Lai
Hair: Ryutaro

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I photographed Carmit Bechar of the Pussy Cat Dolls and Hofit Golan (socialite and FTV presenter) at Amika Night Club and hotel Verta for Face On Magazine. A crew from FTV covered the shoot, coverage of which you can see below.

More images from the shoot after the video.

Makeup: Maddie Pearce
I was assisted by Freddy Lee. Trying to get further credits. Will post as they become available.

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Look book for lingerie client MC Lounge. All items available for sale in Harrods.

Model: Ruby
Makeup: Alex Gillott

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I had a few clients recently who wanted lingerie on location. I didn’t have any in my book. I’ve shot a lot of studio lingerie but none on location. I know, I was surprised myself. Anyway, I hired a few hotel rooms in Brighton for the day and we put this together.

models chloe and charlotte

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I shot this test recently with Liliana Winarska. During the shoot, my neighbours shouted at me for using a communal space. What a drag. Shots are nice though.

Styling: Liliana Winarska
Makeup: Steph Lai
Hair: Gigi Hammond
Model: Elise @ Premier

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This story was published in the Phoenix Magazine which was distributed during fashion week.

Editor: Hannah Kane
Fashion Editor: Leigh Keily
Bookings Editor: Eddie Blaghborough
Styling: Reemé Idris
Models: Irina@Nevs and Lois @ Storm
Makeup: Steph Lai
Hair: Hannah O’Mara
Assistant: Marin Hunter-Menzies

‘A’ Dress by Anna Piercy

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Ohmigod Hugh! This happened aeons ago! This is ancient history already.

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Universities represented included:

Amsterdam Fashion Institute, The Netherlands
AMD Akademie Mode and Design, Hamburg
FHNW Academy of Arts & Design – Institute Fashion Design, Basel
Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology & Design
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

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And here’s a composite of all the girls in one image

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Isn’t it bizarre how composites of women always end up looking like Natalie Portman? It’s as if she’s the template of the ‘ideal’ woman.

This week, the 17th of March (St. Paddy’s day, no less) Sophie Ristelheuber was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize along with a nice fat cheque for £30,000. She was awarded the prize by Terry Gilliam in London.

I’d been to see the show recently and I quite enjoyed it. Some of the show was a little dry but still rewarding. Donovan Wylie’s images of the maze prison at first hit you with their sterility but with a little context you could see he was making a number of quite profound points about confinement, conformity/homogenisation, isolation and punishment.

Anna Fox’s images struck me for their playfulness and they struck me as the most enjoyable part of the show at the time but writing this a couple of weeks later I can barely remember the images. Ooops, sorry Anna. I must disclaim that she was one of my tutors at University although I didn’t know her very well. One of my friends Riika had helped with the construction of Anna’s displays.

Sophie’s images are of war scenes but the aftermath of war scenes. There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over the fact that her images are (heavily?) manipulated in photoshop afterwards. And Seán O’Hagan in the guardian worries that we are no longer dealing with Photography but Conceptual Art in the Photography Prize. This debate over the so-called ‘truth’ in photography is not one that’s likely to abate soon. It’s been going on since the dawn of photography (and is especially vibrant in the genre of fashion photograpy). O’Hagan seems to lament the fact that the prize was not awarded for somebody advancing the medium of photography as a whole but rather as a reward for her art. I feel that he somehow overlooks the content of the images and focuses on the form. The images are powerful as political statements as well as being intriguing to look at.

Purists like to bang on about how little post-production they do to images but frankly my dears, I couldn’t give a damn. Photoshop the hell out of it if you like, Miss Ristelheuber. I don’t care if you used a freakin’ huge Hasselblad with gull wing doors or if you used a disposable party camera, if the end results are good, I don’t see any point in arguing about the technology. Spin it round the Hadron Collider (the large one, even) a few times for good measure if it gets your rocks off. Meanwhile, others beg to differ. A Ukrainian Photographer Stepan Rudik was recently awarded 3rd prize for his story in the Sports Features category in the World Press Photo competition. He was later disqualified for having removed a portion of a foot from the raw image. Have a look for yourself.

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My mind boggled at the fact that they weren’t chastising him for his vicious crop, converting to black and white, the massively added grain or the heavy vignetting – they disqualified him for removing a tiny nubbin of a toe (that did mar the impact of the image). Not that I have any problem with Rudik’s post-production. In fact I was impressed by his crop and how he had managed to distill the essence of the moment into a powerful image from what was otherwise a relatively banal shot.

While we’re at it, this story about a photographer, Jose Luis Rodriguez, disqualified from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year (after having won) for his use of a hired wolf.

More information here. In this instance liberties were taken. A firm slap on the wrist rightfully deserved. Naughty!

Creative license taken to the extreme – Ralph Lauren recently had to make an embarassing apology after someone got a bit over the top with the editing suite…

Check the way her head is bigger than her waist. Initially it was thought that the retouching was done by a third party but embarrasingly it was done in-house.

Sometimes the Photoshop Crop tool is all you need…

Makeup: Alex Gillott
Hair: Gigi Hammond
Styling and Post: Hugh O’Malley
Model: Whitney @ Leni’s Model Management

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met this lovely lady while covering a show at the valmont recently…

dress by Lida O’Reilly, a designer from Mauritius.

Quoting from Hilary Alexander in the Telegraph:

The “Burberry Cadet Girls” formed a military parade, in updated sheepskin flying jackets, bristling with buckles and zips, officer’s mess jackets, khaki trouser suits, trench-coats, and naval reefer jackets.

The arsenal of front-line inspirations was sexed-up with skin-tight, lace and satin, body-conscious dresses, over thigh-high boots in leather and snakeskin.

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Burberry’s show in the grounds of Chelsea College of Art and Design, (where I studied incidentally), boasted a hoarde of celebs: Mario Testino, Mary Kate-Olsen, Anna Wintour, Kate Hudson, Sir Philip Green, Jared Leto, Samantha Cameron, the list goes on…

Also many high profile bloggers were in attendance, Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist, Susie Bubble of Style Bubble and Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie who was sat with Anna Wintour.

The show was televised globally – New York, Dubai, Paris – in 3d.

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I have to say, I really enjoyed this show. A riotous spectacle…

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Front Row at Pierre Garroudi

Jasper’s Art Deco inspired collection at the Freemason’s Hall. Oversized zips, sequins, and strong graphic patterns feature on backless dresses, bomber jackets and elegant outerwear. A simple palette of pine green, black, silver and ivory gives a sense of comething restrained but ultimately super-chic. Shades of Tamara de Lempicka…

Much thanks to Olivia Smith, Jasper’s PR for the invite.

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Maria‘s show took place at the beautiful Waldorf Hilton

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Erin O’Connor, Hilary Alexander and a few others at Maria Grachvogel’s Show.

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