For this shoot, I've decided that I want to team up with a number of designers to create my editorial. As I want the garments to look somewhat haute couture and less high street, I figured that it would be better to seek out designs from the students in my class. After frolicking about and testing the water, I now have the 4 designers I'll be working with: Loredana, Christele, Phoebe and Lisa, all of which are womenswear apart from Lisa who is (as it stands) creating an accessory.
For my model, I originally thought about accessibility and asked Loredana if she would model for the shoot. I originally chose her for her long hair as I have a few ideas for hair and make-up and I figured her pale skin would also look great in the nighttime shots. However, due to previous plans, Loredana wasn't free and so I had to look elsewhere.
My next (and final) point of call was to call my cousin, Ina, who is younger than me by just over a year. Not only did she fit the bill of having long hair and pale skin, she also fit the concept of my project extremely well. Ina spent a year living in The Priory, a famous psychiatric hospital with numerous branches all over the UK. She was first admitted for self harm and was then transferred into the eating disorder unit where she remained for the rest of her time there. Towards the end of her time at The Priory however, she was becoming uncontrollable and it was around this time when she was finally diagnosed with having borderline personality disorder.
It's been over a year since her parents removed her from The Priory after they were beginning to feel unable to cope with her. She was transferred to the Maudsley Hospital, a renowned centre for their research into psychiatry and psychology and has been attending as an outpatient ever since. Whilst she hasn't been dismissed from CAMHS (the NHS's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), she's currently in Year 13 applying for a degree in Medicine and is living her life relatively normally save for the vast amounts of medication she's on.
Ina is one of the few people in my life that I feel entirely comfortable around and the feeling is mutual. Having been with her from the moment she was born through everything else, we're closer than how I perceive most cousins are with each other. I think that her partaking in the shoot will bring an interesting edge to the shoot and I plan on conducting an interview with her to use as my corresponding article. I admit that I was worried she wouldn't want to take part given the nature of the shoot but when I asked her and explained the concept, she laughed hysterically and said "so you only want me because I'm mad? Okay, I'm fine with that".
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