POP 058/ Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Today’s Pop is Ruby. She ends her two week internship with a reflection from last weeks front section shoot, and an ode to Sarah Walter’s latest novel…

The location:
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The photographer: Tung Walsh.
The models: Melo Dagault @ Elite, Hannah Rundlof @ Marilyn.
The stylist: Tamara Rothstein.
Having read Sarah Water’s
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On the shoot, the combinations of Margiela with Westwood, McQueen against Watanabe’s padded extravagance or Scervino’s leather on naked skin typified the mood.
The pairing of extreme and contradictory materials resulting in bold lines and dramatic silhouettes added to the already a strong look; creating an opulence totally displaced by the abandoned and run down setting. This gave the shoot a mysterious and other worldly feel, and with big hair and dark eyes the models seemed like untouchable evil temptresses or fallen angels.
Tule. Fur. Leather. Beads. Feathers. Platforms. Thigh highs. Ruffs. Padding. Shag pile. Mesh.
It’s time to buy a portable smoke machine (emerging mysteriously from hidden doorways) and a cigarette holder. Perfect your nonchalant dismissive gaze and husky voice. Drink whisky, peer through venetian blinds with dramatic single poise lamps, and find an innocent Bogart lookalike to lead astray…
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- Published:
- 28.07.09 / 7am
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- FASHION, POP OF THE DAY
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- FASHION, Pop magazine, Shoreditch Studios, Tung Walsh
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