Credits: Fashion: Isabella Smith Photographer: David Reiss Stylist: Carlos Mangubat Make Up: Barrie Griffith Hair: Davide Barbieri @ Caren Casting: Dean Goodman Model: Martina @ Next Stylist Assistants: Jessica Harris, Grace Thompson
Model @meerle.haket at @premiermodels Casting by @Peterzaar Styling by @Carlosmangubat Beauty by @adamdecruz at @onerepresents using @officialbyredo Hair by @bjornkrischker at @thewallgroup using @oribe Retouching by @houfstudio Stylist Assistant by @graceth Special thanks to @sam_mcelwee @ineszele @graceth and the @voguephilippines team: @_beavaldes_ @jacs_do_it @joyce.orena, @jannpascua @anzhizon
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!! Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
An unreal opportunity to have my garments in Fortnite- going from creating each piece, to watching them get scanned in, to seeing them within a video game universe is unbelievable!!
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
Stills from the Fragments of Reflection show- an immersive catwalk where guests were invited to take part in a live life drawing session- becoming part of a live installation and chain of creation
Stills from the Fragments of Reflection show- an immersive catwalk where guests were invited to take part in a live life drawing session- becoming part of a live installation and chain of creation
Audience images from the Fragments of Reflection show- an immersive catwalk where guests were invited to take part in a live life drawing session- becoming part of a live installation and chain of creation
Once the epicentre of 1920’s hedonism, the hotel provencal in the south of france now stands abandoned, an echoing empty shell. It was this image of the veneer of glamour being stripped back and its beauty ripped bare that made me want to explore the distortion of glamour and question how relevant it is today.
This collection forms a dialogue between our garments and ourselves, how they act both as a ‘projection of the self’ and a ‘protective shell’. Influenced by the images of cecil beaton’s glittering portraits of the bright young things in the 1920s, i merged these with those of john chamberlain’s gleaming metal sculptures made from used car parts to contrast traditional shine surfaces such as silks and satins with more industrial gleaming surfaces. This helped me create the idea of a garment or person being encased, almost as if they had merged with the glistening cellophane background of a photograph, forming a tension between hard and shell-like surfaces.
This inspired me to work with metal, seeking to echo the forms of rich folds of fabric and explore how it relates to the body whilst taking the car as an iconic symbol of glamour and warping it. I combined this with glittering broken resin to create the illusion of figures emerging from a twisting metal shell, as in jg ballard’s ‘crash’, where he describes one of the protagonists as ‘sat in the damaged car like a deity occupying a shrine…reborn within the breaking contours of her crushed sports car’.
CHERRY->>
SELF->>
RESEARCH->>
MAKING->!!
RESEARCH ->!
SLEEVES->!
SHOOT->BTS!
FABRICS->!
IN->PRINT!!
Images by Daniel Adhami
UD edited by Christina Adane
MACHINES->!
INJECTING->GLAMOUR!
PRINTS->PRINTS->PRINTS!
PLANNING->!!!
PLANNING->!!
PLANNING->!
MAKING->!!!
MAKING->!!
MAKING->!
IN->PRINT!!
Shot and interviewed by Naomi Wong & Kaho Fukuda
IN->PRINT!
Shot and interviewed by Naomi Wong & Kaho Fukuda
TOOLS->!
UPCOMING->
UPCOMING->->
UPCOMING->->->
ASCEND->->SKETCH!
ASCEND->->SIDE!!
ASCEND->->PROCESSING!
ASCEND->->SHOWBTS!
ASCEND->->SLEEVETOILE!
ASCEND->->FINALFINAL!
Fashion: Isabella Smith
Photographer: Marcus Schaefer
Stylist: Harry Lambert
ASCEND->->TOILE!
ASCEND->->MAKING!
ASCEND->->FINAL!
Fashion: Isabella Smith
Photographer: David Reiss
Stylist: Carlos Mangubat
Make Up: Barrie Griffith
Hair: Davide Barbieri @ Caren
Casting: Dean Goodman
Model: Martina @ Next
Stylist Assistants: Jessica Harris, Grace Thompson
-><-CUTTING!
-><-JACKET-CALICO-!!
-><-RESEARCH-!!
-><-TROUSER-DRAPE-!
-><-FABRICS!
-><-FINAL-FINAL!
Model @meerle.haket at @premiermodels
Casting by @Peterzaar
Styling by @Carlosmangubat
Beauty by @adamdecruz at @onerepresents using @officialbyredo
Hair by @bjornkrischker at @thewallgroup using @oribe
Retouching by @houfstudio
Stylist Assistant by @graceth
Special thanks to @sam_mcelwee @ineszele @graceth and the @voguephilippines team: @_beavaldes_ @jacs_do_it @joyce.orena, @jannpascua @anzhizon
-><-DRAPING!
-><-MOVEMENT!!
-><- FINAL-FITTING!
-><- PRINT-LAYOUT!
-><- FINAL!
FOR-VIOLET!
FOR-METAL-PRINT!
FOR-COBALT!!
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-GLOVES!!!
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F-R²_12
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F-R²_05
F-R²_08
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ISABELLA-FORTNITE-00
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-07
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-04
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-02
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-05
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-01
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-03
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
FORTNITE-ISABELLASMITH-06
Created with the Fashion Innovation Agency, particularly Costas Kazantzis and Imogen Fox, alongside Luca Asta and Yao Yao
TOUCHING-BLUE-!!
VAULT-CORSET-PROCESSING-!
VAULT-CORSET-PROCESSING-!
LIQUID-NYLON-03-!
Shot for High Snobiety X Reference Point's collaborative newspaper, 'Not In London' by Daniel Adhami
COLLECTION-IN-PROGRESS-!
LIQUID-NYLON-02-!
Shot for High Snobiety X Reference Point's collaborative newspaper, 'Not In London' by Daniel Adhami
RTW-COLOUR-!
RTW-AIRBRUSH-SHADOWS-!
RTW-AIRBRUSH-SHADOWS-!
RTW-LIQUID-NYLON-SUIT-!
Shot for High Snobiety X Reference Point's collaborative newspaper, 'Not In London' by Daniel Adhami
FOR-LOOKBOOK-EMERALD
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-BACKSTAGE//
FOR-SHOW-INVITATION
Images shot and edited by Tigris
FOR-INVITATION-01
Shot by Tigris Li
FOR-METAL-PRINT
FOR-CAMPAIGN-GOLD
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-CORSET-CALICO
FOR-CORSET-PROCESS
FOR-BACKSTAGE-02
FOR-LOOKBOOK-MIDNIGHT
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-PRINT-BLINK
FOR-SHOW-02
FOR-CAMPAIGN-VIOLET
Shot by Eugene Angelo
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-PRINT-SHATTERED-CRYSTAL
FOR-LOOKBOOK-PINK-BACK
Shot by Eugene Angelo
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-LOOKBOOK-BLUE
Shot by Eugene Angelo
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-SHEET-METAL
FOR-SHOW-01
FOR-LOOKBOOK-METAL
Shot by Eugene Angelo
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-CAMPAIGN-GREEN-02
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-BONING
FOR-LOOKBOOK-PINK
Shot by Eugene Angelo
Metal soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-SHOW
FOR-CAMPAIGN-BLUE-VIOLET
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-MOODBOARD
FOR-INSIDE-A-METAL-CORSET
Soldered in partnership with Tigris
FOR-CAMPAIGN-GREEN
Shot by Eugene Angelo
FOR-SHOW-BACKSTAGE
FOR-ENAMELLED-DRAPED-CORSET
FOR-CAMPAIGN-BLUE
Shot by Eugene Angelo
DOF-MIDNIGHT-METAL-CORSET
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DOF-LOOK-04-SHOOT
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DOF-RESIN-TEXTILE
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DOF-LOOK-02-SHOOT
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DOF-LOOK-01
This collection forms a dialogue between our garments and ourselves, how they act both as a ‘projection of the self’ and a ‘protective shell’. Influenced by the images of cecil beaton’s glittering portraits of the bright young things in the 1920s, i merged these with those of john chamberlain’s gleaming metal sculptures made from used car parts to contrast traditional shine surfaces such as silks and satins with more industrial gleaming surfaces. This helped me create the idea of a garment or person being encased, almost as if they had merged with the glistening cellophane background of a photograph, forming a tension between hard and shell-like surfaces.
This inspired me to work with metal, seeking to echo the forms of rich folds of fabric and explore how it relates to the body whilst taking the car as an iconic symbol of glamour and warping it. I combined this with glittering broken resin to create the illusion of figures emerging from a twisting metal shell, as in jg ballard’s ‘crash’, where he describes one of the protagonists as ‘sat in the damaged car like a deity occupying a shrine…reborn within the breaking contours of her crushed sports car’.
DOF-TOILE-02
DOF-TOILE-01
DOF-METAL-CORSET
DOF-METAL-CORSET-PAINTING