Open Lab #8: The Collections

NEW STORY!

I will always remember this story for a number of reasons;

1) First time Open Lab has done a collections story 

2) Location issues; original location swept from under out feet day before shoot
3) Flight issues and hotel scamming
4) All the normal stresses of shooting; getting full show looks on time, casting, light etc

It didn't just all come together, it seemed we had everything thrown at us but working with such a great team and shooting in the beautiful No.9 French Place we managed to achieve this story. For this I imagined a day in the life of a married vampire couple. From home to work to dinner date with the Addams. The day of a modern couple who choose blood over wine. Light topic.

Photography Aline and Jacqueline Tappia

Fashion & Art Director Nickque Patterson

Hair Soichi Inagaki @ Balcony Jump

Make Up Thom Walker

Models Ben Waters @ Models 1 and Flo Dron @ Select

Fashion Assistant Kitty Paterson 

Hair Assistant Baba Takuya

Special Thanks to Space NO.9. and the amazing designers/PRs (in order of occurence) James Long, Eudon Choi, Raf Simons, KTZ, Xander Zhou and Damir Doma. The AW13 one will be even bigger, mark my word!

6:18:48 - DURATION INSPIRATION

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NICKQUE FAVOURITE FASHION SHOWS (SOME)

by Nickque Patterson

I spend most of my (spare) time, reading about and watching artists that excite me. Recently I've been studying shows. I think it's easy to become too familiar with the flow that you don't get to truly appreciate the craftsmanship in design, composition, production, casting and styling (fashion, hair and make up). It's up early, show one, run to show two etc... I feel this way and I don't do half the amount of shows most fashion fiends or top editors do. I'm OCC, obsessive compulsive creative (yes i just made that up, I think), always want to make and learn, always have been; so working on a show or watching one I want to get into that world for that period in order to understand or at least interpret someone's vision. Here are some of my favourites...

Ultimately my fashion family is; Grace Coddington and Andre Leon Tally as my (young) grandparents. Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo as parents, Rick Owens, Alexander McQueen, Jean-Paul Goude, Tim Walker, Miuccia Prada as my favourite uncles and aunt and Alexander Wang, Raf Simons, Daul Kim and Alek Wek as my siblings. Someone whip up a family portrait and send it to me now!!!

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