Collaborations: Zara & Love

As I mentioned before, to give the website a more realistic product based feel and to take some of the pressure off myself I decided to have three shoots of my own and then do some collaborations alongside my projects using the pieces, featuring some of these images on my site in an "as-seen-in" type of page.

The first of my collaborations was with Fashion Stylist Gerda Skirkevičiūtė on a Zara inspired shoot. I spoke with her before the shoot about the style she was going for and she explained that she wanted a simple minimal style so I recommended the fern-like pieces.

On the day of the shoot Gerda was a little apprehensive about whether the pieces would suit the look, so we agreed to only have one on the wrist so that it was subtle and would not be visible in all the images so she could choose whether to feature them in her own work or not. There were meant to be two models but unfortunately one didn't turn up, so only one piece was used for the whole shoot. I think it worked quite well in this shoot and there were some lovely images to feature on the website.

The next collaboration was for a second year stylist's shoot- Lauren Saltonstall. Lauren was a model for my New Forest shoot and when she saw the pieces she told me they would be perfect for a Love magazine inspired shoot she had coming up. This was great for me as in my proposal I named Love as a magazine I can imagine these pieces being featured in. I brought a few pieces along to the shoot and Lauren chose the branch like leaves to go on the sternum, almost like a body chain.

She took some images with the piece both flesh toned and painted, but unfortunately didn't encourage the model to play around with poses so there were not many images I could use as only one pose was used from different angles. I was tempted to ask if I could get some pictures of other poses but I had to remember that the point of these collaborations was to let someone else have artistic control over the final images so they all turn out differently.

I am really happy with how the piece looked overall and I can't wait until I see the final images on the magazine cover mock up. Unfortunately Lauren has informed me that this will not be until after the 6th May, but I have some final images for the time being.