Entering the 3rd week of our module, one of our workshops was to learn and understand slow fashion, using vogue as our source of inspiration when styling and presenting. We needed to promote slow fashion using the materials around us in the studio, and create a typical vogue look as if we were shooting for a page encouraging sustainability in the fashion industry.

Me and my model aimed to create a vintage look, encouraging viewers that vintage wear can still be fashionable and trendy. Moving forward as a current generation, vintage wear has fortunately become even more fashionable and appreciated by everyone, especially in young adults. We wanted to express this by using old trends that have made a come back, styling the model in flared jeans and a vintage blazer. We also used props like an old brief case and an old but beautiful lampshade, incorporating it in to the outfit as some sort of head piece to portray the “quirky” essence that vogue sometimes likes to play around with throughout their magazines.

As for photography, I captured many shots with my model posing in different ways, some being on the floor, on the stool and with or without our props. This was our favourite photograph out of all of them due to how we incorporated the props and successfully showing the quirky and vintage look, however still being able to view the outfit that was well thought about. I tried to keep it as professional as I could using the materials and backdrops around me. We used a plain white backdrop and the camera was placed in the centre at the right level, capturing the full body of the model, the briefcase and leaving room for above to edit in the famous “VOGUE”  writing to tie it all in together. I edited the photo in to black and white to also encourage the vintage look, and finally edited in “VOGUE” in clean white writing, using the most similar font I could find.

Overall me and my model was very pleased with our overall shoot, feeling like we had accomplished the mini brief of encouraging and portraying slow fashion in a VOGUE magazine. I loved the highlights of white throughout the photograph, contrasting with the darker colours. Next time I would like to experiment more with posing, and have a wider variety of photos to chose from that are more different from each other.