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| The 'Olive' steam punk hair piece. |
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| Our tweed dress with the 'Queenie' large fascinator hat |
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| Our Harris Tweed princess coat. |
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| Our black lace cocktail dress worn with black lace bunny ears and the 'Lena' petite hairpiece |
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| Our mint silk taffeta cocktail dress available made to order. |
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| Our Floral bodice with the gorgeous grey underskirt from Doris Designs and the pink shoe clips! |
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| Our Mint Silk taffeta cocktail dress worn with the Julia hair piece |
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| 'Alice' wearing our blue velvet princess coat and tweed dress with the Amelia beaded head band. |
We recently lent out our dresses to the wonderful and super talented Katy from What Katy Did Next for a shoot all the way up North. Once I had viewed Katy's work I was more than excited to have my dresses shot with her beautiful accessories and completely trusted that what she was going to do, would be fabulous. The shoot revolved around the theme of Alice in Wonderland, with the two stunning models playing the parts of Alice and the White Rabbit.
Sally Thurrell photographed Katy's 2012 collection which is made up of the prettiest accessories that you could wear to any occasion as well as for a wedding. My favourite has to be the Florence below, I love the pale blue, feathers, lace and the fact that it is a giant super gorgeous bow!
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| The Florence hair bow |
Accessories: What Katy Did Next
Bunny Ears: Talulah Blue (we love these so much!)
Underskirts: Doris Designs
Photographer: Sally Thurrell
Styled by: Katy Howieson and The Whistling Bunting Travelling Tea Party
Hair and Make Up: Beautiful bride makeovers
Models: Katy Marie Clarke and Nathalie Johnston aka Lily La Rousse
Business Note ....
We have quite a few requests for dresses to be borrowed for photo shoots and as all you indie designers know, it can be a little bit of a hit or miss thing to do. Firstly you have to pack up all your garments and have them couriered to the shoot, trust that the stylists know what they are doing and in some cases after all the expense and risk of sending out your samples they don't even get used!
A few things I have learnt so far about lending out samples is ......
-check out the people organising the shoot thoroughly along with the other designers involved. If you don't like what they do just say no.
-Insist that they send you at least a few shots of your garments being used even if they don't make the final cut as this will pay for your efforts of sending your garments to them for free. If they don't use them they need to pay you.
-get insurance, if all your samples go missing or come back in a mess you would be devastated
-use wardrobe boxes, it's so much easier.
- give clear instructions of how you would like your garments to be shot and what can and can't be done with your garments. If necessary send clips and pins as there is nothing worse than getting photos back to see your designs not fitting right.
- organise the courier to return your garments yourself so they are not hanging around too long.
- be grateful that you have been asked, when it works well all the people involved get something great including you, so most of the time it is definitely worth all the effort. Especially when you get great shots of your work like the ones above. Remember the people orgaizing ther shoot are doing most of the work xxx