Dann Holliday

This post is not merely a homage to my friend Daniel, who takes turns to take me out to dinner and I him (we used to really like Chimichangas but it's changed drastically...)

He is currently applying for internships... He studies Fashion Atelier (fancy) and so he asked me to do some portfolio shots to send along. Apparently all the big fashion houses need to see images now. His work is really good so I wanted to do it justice. We were afforded just one afternoon and a University corridor. I did a few detail layouts... at first we shot on a white background with flash, it looked too fake so we went for sunlight (at 5pm!) and did some nice working backgrounds. Makes it a bit more active I think.

I love this dress... we spent some time in Bluewater looking for climbing rope for this, God knows where he found it in the end, can't wait to see it finished.

This jacket can be short or long... so clever.

Amazing two piece in I think wool, or definitely some sort of wooly material.

Working for Mixmag

So this month, all my widest dreams came true and I was given a placement at Mixmag HQ in Islington. It was definitely the best placement I've ever done, and I rediscovered my secret love of writing.

The best bit being, this month I will be published! (I actually squealed in the office when I found this out...) I have suggested my top five nights out for December to January so please check it out! and researched "fun facts" and witty quips on each night, they probably aren't very funny but I got wikipedia madness pretty quickly...

I have also been contributing online at Mixmag Fashion and here is a not so flattering post featuring me giving it my all in a tomato fight...

Here we are at Golden Square in Soho, after running for the bus and onto the tube, running to Soho, getting fully kitted out and then having 15 minutes free to comprehend what we had signed up for... I wondered if everyone who had stayed at the office had infact had the right idea, but we ended up having a great time! Tomatoes are harder than I thought though...

Other stuff I did included clearing out a mammoth shelf (which made me quite legendary), scanned a lot of magazine covers, researched fashion topics, did fashion returns to PR companies and more... will have to have a proper think! These two weeks have gone so fast, I've moved back to the delightful Chatham (where 'Coppers' is based) and even though I'm enjoying my first lazy day in ages, I'm missing work being work and evenings, or what is left of them, being free to go to exhibitions, restaurants and the like!

I left on a high at 'That Mixmag Thing' at The Queen of Hoxton on Friday night, which was so good and had all the free Agua I could shake a stick at, but made handling a camera more and more difficult. I will upload some photos when I start editing.

I will be carrying on writing for Mixmag Fashion and taking snaps, waiting on my Mixmag ID to come through... exciting stuff!

Palladium: DETROIT LIVES

I have recently been following the series of videos Palladium are making, exploring hidden, forgotten and abandoned places in urban environments. It is called "explorations"...

The famous boots brand have pulled out all the stops with groundbreaking coverage of new and, more importantly, relevant stories for young people. Very interesting! This issue follows Johnny Knoxville.

Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. It seems to be a hub for new business because of the increased freedom and being a lot cheaper than centres like New York. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. It is so inspiring to see what can be done when the youth come together to try and build on what future generations once had. It's really worth watching!

DETROIT LIVES

london streetstyle

Kopparberg Klash: Style

I've known about this competition that Vice is running for a while now, they also have a photography sector and I've been wondering what kinda thing to enter (hard hitting large format adoption themed or canon shot shallow fashion?!) and in the mean time, stylist Blane has only gone and got to the semi finals with a shoot we did together!

In the run up to the final event (a live style-off at the London Fields pub, sponsored by Kopparberg with F R E E cider) Vice fans are visiting the event page and voting for their fave by "liking" it. Sweet Dreams DJs will be there and also free on-site alterations and jumble sale. The overall winner will be taking home £1,000 prize money as well as styling a photo shoot for Viceland.com and coverage in the Kopparberg Klash editorial in VICE magazine. Fingers crossed! Join in the fun here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131208253584273&ref=ts

Click attending and then "like", the event itself is tomorrow.

Can't wait for this!

x

Some more from Kim Crispe's shoot

Kim Crispe: Graduate Fashion Week

straight out of camera... wow

and some simple colour edits:

Did a shoot today for the lovely Kim Crispe who is graduating from my Uni at the moment and showing at Graduate Fashion Week this year. RUCA won it last year, so fingers crossed!

Here are a couple of quick edits.

Design: Kimberly Crispe

MUA: Lisa Weal

Model: Ellis

Visual Seduction

The title of my latest project, I had to extend or create a new campaign for a chosen brand.

I chose the wonderful Tom Ford, and here are the results!

Got good feedback today from my group critique, so happy! The models like them too which is fab.

Busy couple of weeks

We have our setbuild project at Uni, as well as a Sequence and Series project, Essay and Fashion project. All at once. WOW.

Myself and the setbuild group (my flatmates plus Charlie) have decided to do a still from Old Boy after considering The Fly (gross), Let the Right One In, Thirst and some others including kevin's contribution, a Beatles musical set in the Vietnam war (love you really Kev). I am yet to be sent this still so will post when I recieve it.

The Fashion project I have already mentioned, I am creating a new campaign for Tom Ford Eyewear and it has to be believable as the next campign. No pressure or anything... I also cannot wait to see A Single Man, if only there were somewhere around here showing it. I have to wait until next week to see it in the city! Very impressed that the main star of the ads Jon Kortajarena is in it, who I may or may not be a tiny bit in love with.

a m a z i n g

Also, he is quoted as saying "I am a hopeless romantic. I believe in that grand love which can change your life in five days. Maybe it is just because I´m too young, but I really hope to believe the same at the end of my days." Wow.

So this is a very quickly retouched (for colour) version of one of my shots from my shoot... I have planned to get one of Fran alone, one of my male model Geoff alone and a couple shot, but after showing them to my tutor I have decided to crop Geoff to make it more eyewear and less menswear. I need to spent sooo much time on these for the hair and everything eek! But should be cool once it's done. Still need to pick the final 3 shots!

In other news, I did a promo shoot for Three For a Girl styled by Lucy Emma Harris, all arranged by their lovely manager Tom. A few of them should be being illustrated over by the amazing Toby Triumph which is exciting. The contact sheets are being poured over at the moment so I will upload a few of these when they are done!

APC style

Some shots in the style of APC for Nadine's new project.

I don't post often enough

but there you go...

I have finished my book "Sally Murray"... that needs to be photographed and scanned and what have you for here... however I am bedridden, so I will focus on the new project for now.

It's basically Fashion and Advertising, and I need to create an ad for an existing brand, taking their current campaigns and history into account.

SO:

I narrowed it down to Burberry, as that's where my knowledge and photographic talent is best placed I think. I had models in mind, the clothing sorted, black and white straight portraits etc.

OR:

I was really liking the look of Tom Ford's campaigns, the AW 09 always caught my eye in magazines because to be honest I wanted to be the girl in the campaign and be with the guy! And then this season they've come out with a great continuation in the shape of Nicholas Hoult and an attractive blonde OTT topless model with the male chauvinistic theme of her combing his hair. It will be tricky to come up with something along the lines of this, and to work out the lighting and do it as well as Tom has been but this is the one I've decided to do!

Very exciting. I was up until 6am searching for models and what have you, will update when I can.

Grace Jones

Photography: Myself
Editing: Hayley Powell
Styling: Nicole Allan & Nadine Blagdon

Model: Nicholette

My first "proper" shoot of this Uni year

All photography and editing by myself... although Blane's choice of editing, he loves crop and grain just a bit(!)

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Models: Amie Maynard and James McKeever
Stylist: Blane Chapman
Stylist's Assistant: Kylie Tye
Assistants: Daniel Holliday & Nicole Macfarlane
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A few major flattering photos of us "on set" too:

It was a really fun shoot, the models are a couple and so there was a great chemistry between them and no awkwardness. We changed locations a couple of times which broke it up a bit and it was hilarious moving all the stuff to the other house in view of all the cranky junkies!! Everything ran smoothly minus a light burning out and thus stopping the electricity in the whole basement, and a couple of trips during the running scenes! But all in all, very successful, even though the drinking started waay before the shoot, haha! 8 have to be selected out of these lot... not sure which will be chosen.