Stellar Stella

Great editorial written by Cathy Horyn on Stella McCartney and photographed by Damon Winter for NYTimes.  Read the full article HERE  And with Stella designing the uniforms for the British athletes at this years Olympics I’m psyched to see what she will come up with.

Guerilla Art

I happen to be in love with using things in unexpected ways and settings.  Cue Werner Reiterer who has been putting up chandeliers in public spaces, I mean how cool is that?!

Then these cool bookshelves placed in unused or damaged phone booths in NYC by John Locke.  A true definition of a public library….

You know when you see a face in ordinary things? Like electrical outlets to me always seem to be giving a surprised expression.  Check this video from Nikita Nomerz for the below photo.

I read all about it via The Atlantic Cities blog

ss2012

My favourite Spaniard aka Sergio de Luz gave me a light tent for photographing product (I don’t know what the official name is…) for Christmas.  It had a tripod and everything and I cannot tell you how excited I was to use it.  I thought once I had the right light and proper equipment it would be a breeze…not so, it took me three attempts over 3 days to get it right.  One day I had it pitched too high, the next day it was overcast, and then third time was a charm and I got my shots I wanted this morning.   It was not as simple as I thought, but I’m really pleased with the outcome and now that I kind of know how it should be done the next time (fingers crossed) will be a cinch.

So, I have yet to make all the bags in all the colours but all styles will come in any of the ones photographed below.

pile o purses

pile of books aka the props to fill out and prop up the bags

jessica - tomato

crystal satchel - olive

katie tote - blush

katie clutch - electric blue

katie clutch stack

 Amazing what using the right equipment will give you! They are a far superior jump on all the product shots I’ve taken in the past and I wanted to continue to take photos of random things in the tent because they looked so good!

ss12!!

Photos are through from our shoot for ss2012.  Once again big thanks to Sergio de Luz, Alexis Ostrowski, Laura Lashley and Marlow & Sons! Items will be up in the store shortly!

Oh yeeeeaahhh! Roll on  Summer!!

 

V-Day Pop-up

Hey lovers! I’ll be participating in The Shiny Squirrel’s fourth installment of her pop-ups right in time for Valentives Day.  Come and “treat yo’self”

or buy for your Boo.

…xoxo

Vanity

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First Photo in For ss2012

I woke up this morning with a message from Sergio that he had finished the first photo and wanted me to check it and make sure the lighting and feel of the shoot was conveyed as I had wanted.  Well it is, and I’m very excited to show you the first photo that is completed.

Once again I feel so lucky to have an arsenal of talented friends I can call on.  Allow me to introduce them:

Sergio is a Spanish photographer who lives in Madrid and works with some great magazines like Cyan, Doze and El Duende who now we are on my third lookbook together. Laura Lashley on make-up who I’ve known for some time when I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar (literally) and Alexis modeling who I recently met when I began working at Marlow & Sons.

Alexis was a professional ballet dancer who trained at S.A.B and when I told Sergio this (though we were messaging all of this information) I knew his eyes were lighting up instantly imagining the direction of the shoot.  Something I see a lot in his photos and that I’m drawn to is his use of movement and to have a professional dancer at our disposal was a very exciting prospect.

So without further ado here is the first photo!  I’m also super excited to be using a lot of colour in my bags for the first time, but more on that later…

Sunday Cartoons

The Muppet Show was always a highlight in the cartoon lineup on the weekends as a kid, while I don’t think they translated well in the movies the show clips even as an adult, still make me laugh.  Particularly Animal, the Swedish Chef and Miss Piggy when she was karate chopping anybody.  I was looking around on youtube and found Alice Cooper (!) had been a guest star – was their nobody that Jim Henson couldn’t make child-friendly?? As it’s Sunday and it’s the morning I thought it appropriate to give a little Sunday cartoon action…

 

 

Fotoshop by Adobé

This video is right on point timing wise, I was just talking with Sergio yesterday (the photographer from my shoot) about what images we’re going to use for my lookbook and how I want it to look.  We both like images to look as untouched as possible but also changing little things here and there to make certain angles pop.  It’s a really interesting side of photography for me and if I had the time I’d explore it further, in the mean time I’m leaving it up to the professionals…This video is a spoof of how to achieve flawless skin and sample size weight without calorie counting, thanks Refinery29 for the beauty tips…

Instagram 4 eva

My T-Mobile contract finally ran out and I switched over to AT & T for a shiny new iphone.  First downloads? Angry Bird/Skype/Facebook (duh)/twitter and INSTAGRAM holy crap I love it! I mean I love taking photos and the quality of the camera on the iphone 4S is pretty magnificent.  Nothing will replace my canon g11 but for having something on hand that’s small and lightweight, it is so fantastic.  Even Annie Leibovitz thinks so – read what she thinks HERE

Anyways, this is a suggestion that you should follow me around the city via my iphone…search for me on instagram, my user name is @reiddamnit  Here are some of my favourites of the week:

K is for Kelly

k IS kelly! Photo taken by Sergio de Luz

cuidado

blue crush

k.r. for eva