Gatsby Glamour - A Collaboration of Great Proportions

Forgive me Father/Fashionistas for I have sinned, it's been a walloping about of time since I last blogged here. I have been a busy little bee and have less time for internet related endeavours. I have however still been styling and shopping, and dressing myself on a daily basis - you know, fashion related things. I've also run a few fashion shows for my wee business The Powder Room.

Before we launch in to my favourite fashion finds of the moment though, I figure I'll dedicate a few entries to my styling escapades. These shall not be in any time order, as some are from so long ago I simply don't recall when.

So let's go with some of the more recent shoots first. As part of Gatsby fever hitting the world (an infliction I myself was struck with at age 15, when it became one of my favourite novels and I studied it for English Lit) I teamed up with magical Perth photographer David Woolley, known for his beautiful vintage glamour styles (and ability to make your skin look like porcelain, without making you look like plastic) as well as talented local milliner Jessica Bird of Jessica Frank Millinery. After a last minute drop out from our model on the day I madly scouted and managed to pull in tiny and delicious up and coming burlesque dancer Ju Ju Bijou and she rocked it. Thoroughly. She also managed to do her own makeup, and I used wigs on her for this shoot. All clothing is from the Decadence & Hedonism 20s range of dresses, from The Powder Room.

David Woolley @ Vintage Glamour Photography: http://vintageglamourphotography.com/

Jessica Frank Millinery: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.frank.millinery

Ju Ju Bijou: https://www.facebook.com/juju.bijou.5

The Powder Room: http://www.enterthepowderroom.com/

The photos were used to promo David and I's joint event: Gatsby Glamour, which was an excellent night of 20s fashion, photography, dancing, music and performance.

So, my first blog in forever and it's overwhelmingly pictures... but I think you'll agree they're rather pretty ones, so I'm forgiven, right? On that note, I'll leave you with some event and photo booth pictures taken at the Show. Warning: Silliness ahead...

 

Sunday Stylist

So those that know me personally may know that I consider myself a Jack of All Trades (Master of None, somewhat). I'm hyperactive and like to be involved in a million projects at once - Must keep those plates spinning!

What? I'm a Lawyer, gogo dancing in an art gallery during the day - TAKE ME SRSLY!

I'm a 'qualified' stylist (for whatever that's worth) but generally refer to myself as a "Sunday Stylist". What I mean by this is that it's not my bread and butter. During the week I'm busy being a lawyer, either at my main firm or freelancing as part of the WA arm for the amazing folk at Creative Legal.

My nocturnal nights are spent doing admin for my boutique The Powder Room, and my weekends are spent performing or rehearsing with my GoGo troupe The Beehives. Add a few dance classes a week, a samba performance troupe, an emerging events company and a lovely (patient) boyfriend and that doesn't leave a lot of time for styling sessions - but every now and then, I find myself with a bit of time (often on a Sunday afternoon!), a cool concept and some amazing people to work with and I finally get to stretch my styling legs.

I've managed to snatch enough time to do a few great shoots lately, so I thought I'd share some images with you. I'm going to split this into a few posts as it's extensive - and maybe try and group them a bit according to style (conceptual/fun/high fashion/retro). Shall we start with Retro? Ok, I think we shall. Credits are as stated.

So you've probably picked up on my intense love of the 60s by now, no? Most recently I got to finally style a shoot that the wonderful photographer (Marti Hughes) and I had been discussing since we first met and instantly hit it off (bonding over being Irish - in my case, 'Irishish' - and laughing at other peoples stupidity).

We both love the mod era and culture and were keen to shoot. It took us an awfully long time to find our perfect model though (over a year) but when we found her, oh boy was she perfect.

The following are shots from a rainy sunday afternoon shoot in a Northbridge car park. I styled 3 looks, both Marti and other Perth photographer and all round nice guy Danny Reardon of Tomoboy photography were behind the lens, our beautiful pixie model Chloe Morien is also a talented make up artist and runs 'A Brush With Colour'  and the awesome Tim King responded to our call out for a fabulous 60s scooter. Thanks also to the fabulous Lisa Rodrigues over at Your Fashion for covering this shoot (and in the process kicking my butt into action to cover some of my own shoots!)

All clothing is either the stylists own, vintage or from The Powder Room.

Stay tuned for more styling work (I think I have a back log of about 11 shoots to put up!) And if you're ever bored, googling mod fashions has to be one of the BEST time wasters.