Beautiful Medusas

This was our "Beautiful Medusas" beauty story, shot in studio in London. With ancient Greece in mind I wanted to keep it simple, bringing mainly gauzy, neutral colored fabrics which could be paired easily with jewelry to create an image of unobstructed, effortless beauty. I knew our makeup artist Alice Oliver did beautiful, edgy makeup with current colors, which wouldn't need a lot of fuss with the styling to accentuate. Here are our results.

Photography: Mayfly London
Fashion Editor: Julie Michael
Hair Stylist: Roxy
Makeup Artist: Alice Oliver
Model: Hannah Berry with Leni's Model Management

Karl Lagerfeld is great.

Karl Lagerfeld is fashion industry GIANT and extraordinarily talented designer. He always looks fierce, confident, and professional, and though we never see him smile it is possible he may have a sense of humor...

Love him!

I wish he would write a survival guide, I would buy it.

Style Quack... not to be taken too seriously

Style quack is a blog about fashion and style from the perspective of a fashion designer getting carried on all sorts of ridiculous, nonsensical adventures in the world of human clothing, adornment, and behavior. The only thing that remains consistent in this weird and wild world is my continual fascination with how fashion and style remain serious and ridiculous at the same time.

I love fashion. I respect the rules, the people who make them, those who follow them, and the people who ignore them. From futuristic fashion bloggers, celebrity stylists and multinational business directors who write the rulebooks and rock our world as we see it, all the way down to the scum of society, the misfits, the ghettofabulous, the old lady working a cat sweater, or the foreigner who just looks a bit off (which has been me on numerous occasions)... style is extraordinary and anyone who makes a statement with what they wear should be commended.

Quick background: I was educated and trained as a fashion designer. Upon graduating college I started in London on an internship for a fashion designer, and all seemed to be going to plan. I somehow veered off course and ended up working for stylists on band tour wardrobe, and later photo shoots and commercials. Once I strayed as far as weekly gossip papers and lad mags, I thought it couldn't get any weirder. Then I moved back to America and started working in the wardrobe department of a circus, which is where I work now. My parents were circus performers back in the day, so I sort of figured I'd end up there myself eventually. This time I'm fairly confident my job couldn't get any weirder... But who knows what the future holds! 

This blog will include some of my professional work, which as I go along seems to get more and more... interesting?... as well as some random reads or pictures of crazy people on the street I find from town to town, in between projects.

Enjoy!