Fashion Photography: 'Wonderland' by Kirsty Mitchell

Today, let’s take a walk in the mystical ‘Wonderland’ of Kirsty Mitchell, a storybook without words, an unexplained collection of strange and magical characters, set in the woodlands and landscapes that surrounded her home in Surrey.

Kirsty Mitchell, fashion photographer from Kent, is one of the fashion photographers I truly admired ever since I first saw her works. Following Maureen's death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography. She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created 'Wonderland', an ethereal fantasy world.

She wanted to mix together her backgrounds in fashion design, costume making, her love of art history and film, as well as her passion for the natural beauty of English landscapes. In short, a melting pot of all her everyday interests, channeled into a very personal tribute to the memory of her mother, and the fairytales she read to her constantly as a child.

This is 'The Storyteller': A reference to Kirsten's English teacher mother, a model sits elegantly on a carpet of bluebells enveloped by books.

Kirsty developed a deep bond and respect for the locations in which she was working and strove, through her pictures, to remind others of their forgotten magic and beauty.

She became fascinated with pockets of wild flowers such as the bluebells that would appear for only a few brief weeks of the year. In some cases, she would wait a full 12 months so she could shoot costumes matched to the vivid colours of nature! 

She said her 'aim was to portray time passing, an unsaid journey through four seasons, incorporating every colour in the rainbow'.

This is 'Spirited Away': Blooms stand out against a snowy forest backdrop, a promise of the spring to come.

Here: the Beautiful Blindness of Devotion sees a painted girl with eyes closed in prayer.

Images from here.

The Briar Rose is a human rambling rose appearing to grow from the stonework.

For more of her work, you can visit her website. To read more about the journey behind each photo shoot, you can check her blog where she goes into detail about the development of each of her imaginative concepts all the way through production.

Very inspiring work! Unlike anything I’ve ever seen! What do you think?

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Supermodel Karlie Kloss Travels to Nicaragua

My today post is about the american model Karlie Kloss for T Magazine'. 

For the Winter 2012 issue, the supermodel took a trip to Nicaragua with photographer Ryan McGinley to pose for a stunning set of understated photos set against the country’s beautiful and diverse landscapes. 

               In Lake Nicaragua, with the island of Ometepe in the distance. She wears Balenciaga.

They ventured to the Masaya Volcano National Park outside of Santiago for the photoshoot to illustrate a Nicaragua travel story. 

In the shots, the 20-year-old model wears little makeup and her hair looks very undone. Karlie dons simple, airy clothes from Balenciaga, Chloé, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jacobs, Chanel, and sits everywhere from the edge of a volcano to high above the canopy of a rainforest. The photos feel very calming and at the same time adventurous...

In a farmer’s pasture near La Virgen. With a Gap shirt and a Chloé skirt

With a Marc Jacobs dress

On Maderas Beach. With Chanel swimsuit

At a farm in Marsella. Balenciaga again

High above the canopy at Maderas Village. With a Gucci dress

Marsella Beach. With a Salvatore Ferragamo top

In Masaya Volcano National Park. Chloé top and shorts

Images from here.

I am sooo loving this winter issue because of the travel concept! They explored a volcano, vast plunging cliffs, wild animals, lush forest and deserted coastline of the beautiful Nicaragua. Brilliant!

For the first time in our lives, we have a desire to go there! Well done, T! 

You can check out the entire amazing story over at the T site.

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Zhao Wei graces Harper’s Bazaar China

There are two main signs of Spring: the oldest one is the appearance of robins...and the other is traces of new life, first blooms peeking through the snow and on lifeless trees...

Depending on where you live you may not have seen any trace of new blooms so let my today editorial featuring the chinese actress and singer Zhao Wei for Harper’s Bazaar China serve as your first signs of Spring! :-)

The actress is the flowery beauty on the cover page of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar China for the January issue 2011. 

She is photographed by Feng Hai and blooms in bright and colorful feminine pieces with floral prints on the cover and inside the magazine. It is a very romantic shoot.

Images from here:

She looks D-I-V-I-N-E on this pretty pink cover and this beautifully styled editorial, don't you think? LOVE!

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Zhang Fan in Tibet for Harper’s Bazaar Indonesia

My today post is about Harper's Bazaar Indonesia and the chinese model Zhang Fan captured by Nicoline Patricia Malina. The magazine headed to fantastic Tibet for its November Issue. Love this editorial called '7 Days in Tibet'! 

The whole (three editorials) shoots took seven days to finish.

They had the opportunity to shoot in the beautiful Tibetan plateau with the amazing styling from Michael Pondaag and Qiqi Franky providing the hair and make up on Zhang Fan.

Nicoline said it definitely was one of the most difficult shoots due to weather and our health condition on the highlands, but they managed to execute the concept all the way from Lhasa, the Brahmaputra and Yamrok-Tso lake, to the beautiful Shigatse and the Karo-La snow mountains.

Images from here

From these photos, I am sure you can feel the calmness being in Tibet, the nature looks untouched, clean, and brings out the loveliest shades of colors on earth... 

This editorial makes me want to visit Tibet, doesn't make you want to do the same thing?! 

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