Editorial Shoot for Pastiche: Styling

So I have thought a lot about the styling for my final Editorial shoot. I feel that this will add so much more to the images and create a more professional look to this shoot. Because we have had a large amount of freedom with this specific shoot. I wanted this to look like something you would see in Vogue or Harpers Bazaar. The creative designing part of shoots is the aspect that excites me the most. I love thinking up the costume, the makeup, the hair, the jewellery, the location, the lighting, the angles and composition. I love every aspect so I want this to represent my style and other skills within the industry. 

My word is Pastiche, and because I have researched the history behind feathers and stones within indigenous cultures I wanted to create a contemporary interpretation. I have chosen to interpret these items by creating my own versions. I bought some beautiful Indian wedding jewellery from a shop in Marlands in Southampton. The whole set includes a necklace, earrings, and a head piece. Its detailed with Gold stones in a gold setting and it is made in india. I fell in love with this set and thought it would be so beautiful and captivating in my editorial shoot. This set is my modern representation and symbolism of the gold stones that the mayan shamans were buried with. The gold stones represented the sun so I think it will be a special touch to include them in the styling of my shoot.

The Jewellery was the first thing that I saw that I was immediately drawn too. After this came my headdress design. I was playing with the idea of using blue feathers as I was drawn to the blue feathers the mayans used for there headdresses. I loved the blue colours of feathers I found for my mood board, but when I was making it I felt that the blue feathers would be too much all together. I wanted it to be very light and airy and I was drawn to my white feathers that I had also purchased. I started making the headdress and found that the white and gold just went so well together. I began making the bralet with white feathers too and it all came together. The last thing I designed was the skirt. My mum is a seamstress and she makes clothes among other things, and she had a box of material that I found. I found a beautiful piece of material that was a very pale duck egg blue with orange and gold birds on it! I thought this was perfect as all of these ideas, even the indigenous tribes headdresses have been pastiched from birds. It went so beautifully with the feather bralet and headdress that I asked my mum if she could make me a mock up skirt. I designed the shape and length and my mum had it ready in 2 hours. It was perfect! I put it all together and fell in love with it. From this I then designed my final makeup design.