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Sunrise, sunset. I much prefer the latter (this is the former), but either way you bite your tongue and stand the freeze for the sake of the one-eyed lens monster pointed at you. It shoots.
I could have made a lot of puns with Song, but I stuck with an actually informative title. Damn, I wish I had a name as cool as “Song”. Stupid denotations of the English language, alas. I actually mentioned this shoot with some lessons I learned on one of my first posts. This also happened to be the one with the incident of the train-track bum.
Song is the designer of these dresses I’m photographing; she actually attends my school, though I met her through way of the ROP fashion show.
This is Lindsay by the way; personally, I'd say she looks like some kind of Pocahontas/Native American princess in that dress.
Age/Grade/School/City you were born in.
17. Junior. American High =) , Born in Korea, Seoul and raised in [the] Bay Area.
Why fashion merchandising and what got you started with it?
Well, my mom was a fashion designer and I have that blood in me. And I always wanted to design my clothes myself and I just wanted to be creative.
Dream place to live. (Why?)
I would say hawaii. because its really nice and very pretty and a chill place to be. Not too fast, not too slow.
What’s your design philosophy?
I don’t know what a philosophy is.. =) but I’ll guess. Uhm i guess philosophy means what my passion? Uhm my mom and designers that i love.
So stationary, so still. Such a lovely model it was - though of course, I nicked it from Caroline. Yeah, there's a thing with the lens flare. I'm hoping that someday I'll grow out of it.
Describe the type of person who would wear your clothes.
I would say my friends and teenagers because they fit it best.
Which of your own designs do you love best to date? (Show if possible!)
I dont get the question…… >< [sorry,! =|]
Magazine(s) of choice?
uhm Vogue.
What do you want to do post-high school? what about in another 4 years? far-out future?
In another 4 years, I want to be a fashion designer or a[n] English teacher. So I’m going to a two year first and see what I reallly have passion in. Right now, I have strong passion about both subjects. So we will see where I head =)
And this is Ameera; the yellow dress she's modeling happens to be my favorite of the three Song made in about the 2.5 days leading up to the shoot.
If you could work with any designer living or dead, who it be and why?
Marc Jacobs. I just love his designs that he comes out with. It’s just amazing.
Top 5 items you can’t live without?
Uh, Phone. Laptop. Ipod. Piano. FOOD =) [does that count?] (me: yes x1000 it counts.)
Describe the process of creating a piece, from concept to final product.
My concept is Floral & Colorful. First, i sketch my outifit out and then set the colors in. After that, i stitch pieces together and the final product comes out the way i want it. of course it seems a very easy thing to do, but its extermely time consuming and very delicate to work with. if you run out of fabric, and you dont have time to go get another one, then your screwd. you have to be exact about every little thing on the clothing you are working on.
What would you attempt to do, if you knew you could not fail?
I know I fail & fail over and over again. But if i knew i could not fail, then i would do everything i can. i would do so much more than what i am doing now.
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Yeah, I posted this picture before, but it remains one of my favorites from the set.
That’s the end of the interview. I capitalized the i’s, but otherwise, I left it as is. And sometimes, I find irony when I’m not even looking for it. Nevertheless, Song is a super fun person to work with. She has energy that I can barely keep up with this early on a weekend morning. And I’m more of a morning person than most.
Now to go on for some fun behind-the-scenes images!
Hair and impromptu outside changing. You can tell how could it was by what the non-models were wearing. From left to right: Song, Ameera, Jen, Song, Lindsay.
This is us going to Location #2: the trees. Mud, mud, mud. Not just that, but freshly turned soil. Trust me - bad experience all around, even if it does make for it with amazing texture.
Black eye for Katie, as prescribed by Jen while playing around with makeup while we were being busy bees styling, posing, and shooting. Honestly, she somewhat deserved it, petty as that sounds. Or maybe I just expect too much of people and professionalism levels when I'm shooting. Such as not playing with my brand new never before used makeup only to complain about black eyes! Sorry - allow me my little (and very, very, very petty) grudges.
Group Shot (Give One, Take One).
Wow, I think it’s so awesome that you’re experimenting with fashion photography. I can see now why Cyniquentially needed a little breathing space away from Darkfaerytale!
and got to use her work in the shots.
But the shots are really nice, and it’s amazing that you met an original designer on the rise
Where did you say you met? The ROP Fashion Show? What was that, and what are you looking to do with this newfound talent (in both the short and long run, if you will)
Also, on a side note I wanted to make a button for Cyniquentially on my site (don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before), so I was wondering if you wanted to make one yourself (125×125) or if you happened to have a pic of that shoe without the background so I could throw something together myself with a little cleaner edge. If not no worries
just let me know you don’t mind me messing around!
Our district has a class called “fashion merchandising,” which hosts an annual fashion show. I attended their last year’s show and really liked it, so when they put out model notices, I auditioned, though what I really wanted to do was take pictures. I eventually dropped out of modeling and just offered to take pics – which is basically where this came from. There’s a lot of promising designers there.