Mannequin shoot

Here's a shoot I styled along with a few people in my class, using mannequins for models. Mannequins make great models because their skin is perfect and they don't have attitude. Just kidding. The pink jacket is actually mine, it's Moschino Chap & Chic and I found it at Salvation Army for $4.00! It's one of my favourite thrift finds and punches up any outfit. I love wearing it with a leopard print blouse underneath because it's just a LITTLE too much. Also mine: the sunglasses in the last one, the leopard scarf. Did I mention I dig leopard? Yeah? Okay, here are the pictures!

pulp fiction shoot

Here's a photoshoot I styled using the wonderful Megan as my model. It was my final submission for my Styling class where the theme was "Oscar Winners". Pulp Fiction didn't actually win Best Picture but it won Best Screenplay AND it's pretty damn cool so that explains my choice. Uma Thurman was just the ultimate vixen in that movie. We shot this at Frenchie's Diner/Montreal Smoked meet in Vancouver. The owner Michel was super helpful in letting us use this perfect 50's style diner. Here is the end result:

(click the image to view it ful-size please!)

I added the cigarette smoke in photoshop which was painstaking but worth it, I think it gives it a really cool comic-book effect.

business card

This is the business card I designed for myself. I needed it in a fix because I had to go out and pull some looks for a shoot I was doing so I whipped it up in Photoshop. It took me a while to achieve the "pop-art" look but I think it came out really cool. The funniest part of all of it is that people always think it's a picture of me! It's actually Norwegian model Siri Tollerød but thanks! Here was my process:

Exhibit A: The picture from a magazine editorial (don't remember which, sorry!)



Exhibit B: Using this tutorial, I made the picture into a "pop-art" type image.



Exhibit C: Finished Product. After playing around with transparency and gradient for the other side of the card, this is the business card I came up with!



I plan on designing another, simpler, business card for other endeavors but for now this one will do. It has a lot of personality and I like how loudly it speaks!

magazine cover

This is a magazine cover I made for my photoshop/digital arts class. I've always used photoshop even before coming to school so I knew my way around the program pretty well. I used many of tools in Photoshop CS4 to achieve this textured, dreamy background including layer masks. It took a really long time to cut Chloe out of the background of the original picture, but it was worth it for the smooth result. I chose Chloe Sevigny as my covergirl because she is one of my favourite fashion icons. Notice the shoutout to Elle Creative Director Joe Zee (love him)!



I took my inspiration for the colour scheme and dreamy feeling from Dazed and Confused, i-D and V magazines.



disclaimer: The Kristen Stewart issue of Dazed wasn't even out yet when I made my magazine cover, I didn't copy the background!

menswear shoot

This is a shoot I did using my boyfriend Stu as a model. We had to style our shoot based around this Nicole Miller black paisley textured tie, then create a full page ad for it. I wanted my shoot to be an outdoors, GQ style shoot. I think Stu did really well and looks amazing. Here are some of the pictures I used for inspiration:



here is the finished product:


and here are a few shots I didn't end up using but still really like: