Wow… feeling vaguely human again after one utterly insane week!
Nothing like running on your reserve tank for 3 out of the 5 days in a week, knowing that if you stop for a second it will all come crashing down, so you just push through hoping you going to make it out the other side. Once you do, you take a second to breath then completely crash.
That's what happened to me at least and I think I have had a collective 24hours sleep this past weekend to refuel for what lies ahead.
Last week we shot the fashion feature for the next issue of the Magazine, and boy it is a lot of work, especially when you are part of a team consisting of two people and the other person is 8 months pregnant. Yes, early mornings, busy days and late nights… Sourcing, collecting, styling up, fittings, exchanges, shooting and returns… complete madness. But wow it’s going to be 10 pages of magic I tell you! It makes the sore feet and knees, the lack of sleep, the glamorous job of taping sanitary pads to the bottom of Prada shoes and walking around looking like a Christmas tree, thanks to all the metal clamps attached to your clothes ‘just incase’, all worth it.
And what a hoot it was on the day of said magic… we were based at the new fashion hotel 15 on Orange, which has some really spectacular elements, we worked with four really great male models, each a character I tell you, but nothing beats the blonde with a dirty sock phobia. Here he is decked out in a jet-black Hugo Boss suit looking to kill and his dirty, should have been chucked away a year ago, supposed to be white but are actually brown converse takkies, why you ask? He is so freaked out about having dirty socks he couldn’t walk 20meters (if that) in just socks (brand new socks we provided)… Because he is freaked out about having dirty socks inside his shoes… I guess it was one of those moments of ‘guess you had to be there’ to really appreciate the hilarity of the situation.
Not to mention the chaos that ensued when I left the crew alone for a total of 20 minutes, the clothes where everywhere the system, which I have carefully put together, had gone to shit and the keycard for the room had been lock inside… seriously people 20 minutes.
So for a day that started at 7am and ended at 10pm, we are going to have some wicked results to show for it. I’m so excited to see the images I think it might even top ‘A night at the Taj’ which was our last shoot with South African Haute Couture. Which totally took my breath away!
~For now we wait with baited breath~
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