· snaps

Feeling festive in and around London

· une journée à paris

·sketch

· la dame sans nom

Unedited photographs of behind the scenes...

· edits

· through the looking-glass

Location: The National Trust woodland walk at Bringsty

Props: Balanced tea cup with tissue

Theme: Inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll, Saga Sig and Tim Walker

Character Profile: The Looking Glass

Dress; 100% silk chiffon, net underlay

Vintage mirror frame with embroidered centre piece

Character Profile: Alice Liddell
Dress with silk, eyelash lace and boning detail. Model Molly Kennedy explores an Alice Liddell youth and fragility.

"And what does it live on?
"Weak tea with cream in it."
A new difficulty came into Alice's head, "Supposing it couldn't find any?"
~ Lewis Carroll: Through The Looking Glass

Character Profile: The Red Queen
Charcoal-grey evening dress, 100% procion-dyed silk with lace, underwiring and embroidered embellishment.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward," said the Queen.
~ Lewis Carroll: Through The Looking Glass

A multiple shutter captured the movement of the silk referencing Viktor & Rolf's 'Flowerbomb', with thanks to Tom Hill. http://tom-hill.tumblr.com/ 

· story of liouba

Some old photographs I have found from my first photoshoot...

(I'm in a reminiscing mood!)

· american diner

A shirt made from a man's red and white checked shirt size Large, and a yellow shirt.

· sketchbook

A few pages from my ideas book...



· corsetique

Location: my back garden
Props: white wrought iron "room divider", pink roses, tea cup with tissue
Theme: inspired by the works of Tim Walker

· tsar star

Location: brick wall

Props: St. Petersburg hat, magnifying glass on chain

Theme: opting for a war-poster feel, linking in with the Make Do & Mend brief

Elements: man's dogtooth blazer in Large, 50's inspired scarf from a charity shop and gold buttons

· ceci et cela

Mine and Hannah Llewelyn-Jones' (hannahllewelynjones.blogspot.com) mish-mash wall of inspiration, memories and quips.



Halfway through a Jean-Paul Gaultier "Classique" corset inspired construction. Another inspiration branching from the British 1940's Make Do & Mend cultural activity, this corset is made entirely from recycled shirts, pattern paper and crochet. Photoshoot to follow soon.

· polly's secret garden

Location: my back garden

Props: lace web, dried hydrangeas (petals used as eyelashes), copper wire

Storyline: escapism from the harshness of reality, model Georgie Rees seeks succour from the splendour of nature, in a world where imagination is Queen

"Ensnared in a web of

complexities laced with convultions,

intricacies and eruditions,

Polly's discoveries aided her suspicions

as to why the Great Mother

had her trapped."

"Like a kite I set off in flight:

away from fright and might;

bearing the Sun in my palms

I will have no qualms against

the Earth. I will merely have mirth."