As promised, here are the results of my candy styled photoshoot, after a bit of editing on Photoshop. I wanted to try and desaturate the colours of the background, hair and skin so that the pastel colours of the clothes and accesories would become more pronounced, and hopefully this worked:
I thought the best way to begin this blog would be to just dive straight in and post work that I'm doing at the moment. At college I'm mostly focusing on fashion styling and photography right now, and most recently I carried out a shoot with two of my friends. My inspirations were drawn from multiple sources:
The aesthetics of Sofia Coppola's 2006 movie 'Marie Antoinette':
Both Meadham Kirchhoff'sS/S '12 and S/S '13 collections which I think I will love for ever and ever:
My JuJu jellies which I am dying to wear but can't (it's snowing right now as I look out of my window D:). I decided to resurrect them for the shoot after seeing these babies from Chanel S/S '12:
And really I just wanted an excuse to take photo's of my pretty Topshop toile de jouy neon pink printed shirt which I think I could live in for the rest of my life and not feel the need to change:
I also drew this sketch to help finalise the idea in my head of the kind of nineties bubblegum-pink,sherbert-lollipop,candycane,sickly-sweet look I had in my head and the kind of thing you'd imagine when listening to Millie Small's 'My Boy Lollipop' (which always reminds me of the Spice Girls move 'Spice World'):
I used all clothes I owned and never realised how many pink and blue things I had. To complete the look I bought some bright pink tights from H&M, as well as cute schoolgirl pink and blue bobby pins from Accesorize to emphasise the innocent little girl aesthetic. Throw in some pink and blue balloons, some sherbet lollipops and pink bubblegum and voila! I'll post the results in the next post...
Going back to the Marie Antoinette/Candy theme, this was the starting point for me, and I must have re-watched it about 20 times:
