Chiara’s gone conceptual with this little sunday afternoon shoot for which I was in front of the lens for the first time in quite a while.
Clothes:
all pictures: Rad Hourani signature boots
pic 1: Rad Hourani leggings, Rick Owens shirt
pic 2: Rad Hourani leggings, Damir Doma shirt, Conbipel vest
pic 3: Damir Doma shirt
pic 4: Damir Doma shirt, Ring jeans
Issue #26 of noi.se magazine (UK / Australia) just came out with these pictures that I’ve shot with Stephen Delattre at the outskirts of TIME & MOTION combining highspeed photography with long exposures.
Styling: Chiara Padovan
Clothes: mostly Lorand Lajos
Lee McQueen’s death in February was a devastating loss not only for the world-wide fashion community, but for everyone working in any creative field that’s somehow connected with fashion. During his rather short career as a designer, he influenced the 90′s and 2000′s with his unique aesthetics like probably no other.
To show how much his work had affected a whole generation of young creatives, Chiara and I decided to shoot a couple of homage pictures.
The 1st one was shot in my studio with Maria Justus wearing a dress that Chiara made from 40 meters of fabrics. The inspiration for the dress comes from McQueen’s S/S 1999 show. We wanted Maria to look not like an object of desire, but strong and untouchable, with certain historic references. Make-up and hairstyling by Maren Endraß.
The 2nd photograph was taken in a private chapel. Chiara is wearing a vintage Yamamoto dress that’s enlarged with additional layers of textile by Lorand Lajos (who also made the headpiece and the collar) and an Italian vintage wedding dress. Make-up by Maren Endraß.
The last one has become my new portfolio cover. I came across this fascinating dog during a walk downtown. The Xolo breed is truly controverse and altough it is based on a genetic disfunction it has been honored as sacred for thousands of years now. To me, the Xolo represents a certain kind of Otherness. Looking like a creature from culture’s unconscious depths, he seemed to embody the McQueen-principle quite well. And to bring the relation to clothing back into the picture, we decided to make him a coat from fur rejects.
