For me the hair, make up and styling was to take it to a truly important and considered appeal. Annie Schutzinger ‘s brief was that the collection resembled no time, no place or gender.
So almost every garment was made wearable for every human being.
My collaboration with Annie’s garments and Tanja Bruckner’s photography allowed me to play with texture and form. I like to push boundaries so I invite you to marvel and leave the methodology to the imagination.
Allowing myself in the styling process, craft on the artful placement of decoratively lavished and perfectly positioned onto the garments. This impacted to a mammoth, not least in a creative application of hand made accessories not just for the hair but I incorporated these pieces into the garments for an unexpected addition. Made up of paper, plastic motifs, more plastic, feathers, sequins fake pearls and diamonds all made by myself through my thought process heading into this shoot.
Hair with vast “enthusiasm” was to be strong. For our model Mary, I explicitly wanted to create a dramatic length and height that was composed in a careful manner using long curly hair extensions. A more realistic shape was then cut into through careful cutting technique with scissors, my idea of design for Mary was so that her character could be a queen, a princess or a contempered of now.
With our second model Lach. I wanted to explore other worldly styles. During the weeks leading up to the shoot I was deciding who this character was going to be, “A prince, monk, soldier”, and of course keeping a magic and fantasy where a boy becomes a girl or just being gender neutral. Lach had long natural brown hair that I freely air dried and the use of a wig I had cut to create a short monk like haircut. For further contrast I used other hair extensions that I had prepared as distressed braids to compliment a Victorian foot soldier.
Make up was emerging throughout the shoot, starting with clean beautiful skin and only one other element that was a eye brow. Also, I used partial and full eye masks to create a time of regency. My interest laid in a mood towards the face that could have been in the past or the present. For me this was a more moving and creative approach.
I now look at these images with complete fulfilment.