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Richard Hudson - international set and costume designer best know for his sets of the Lion King, and winner of numerous awards including a Tony and an Olivier.
Editorial for Cora Magazine - bit.ly/LyctHE
This editorial was so much fun to shoot! We built the set from scratch and had a bad weather on the day, but it worked out :)
Photography: Andreia Takeuchi
Model: Juliana Schmidt @ DN Models
MUA: Jean Michel Battirola
Set Design and Styling: Coletivo Volver
Photography assistant: Nathalia Takeuchi
Clothes: Original Kids
Cenografia para as áreas de show e VIP da feira Brasil Rural Contemporâneo. Rio de Janeiro, Outubro de 2009.
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Set designs for the concert and VIP areas at the Brasil Rural Contemporâneo fair. Rio de Janeiro, October 2009
Teepees are like handbags.. however large you go, you always manage to fill them up!
Incidentally, this was my previous teepee (last year's photo) and it was one meter less diameter than my current hippie home.. this one had a relatively low entrance and you'd have to bend over quite a bit to get in.. perfect for lounging about in the doorway though.
This gorgeous jumpsuit is so light & airy for summer and by All About Audrey.
Go explore her magical collection of colourful designs & textures: www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
We've had some super windy weather here in the UK recently, so I've been dismantling some of my more temporary structures, moving bits of outdoor furniture and reinforcing some structures in the garden from the storm-like winds - like this one, my little wooden summer house.. although I can't actually do much about that.
I am living on the coast, which is expected to be windier than inland towns, and I sometimes worry about the awning over the caravan, but it seems to be sturdier than I first thought.
Mother nature is beautiful, fascinating & infinitely powerful all at the same time, and it is an important reminder that nothing is permanent - even the bad times.
Are you a coffee or a tea drinker?
I just realised why I should always stick to tea..
One caffeinated coffee today sees me bouncing off the walls!
Nothing like this relatively zen photo of me enjoying a cuppa at The Hacienda, London
Wearing a gorgeous kimono from All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
Styling & set design, modelling, photography & retouching by me
I absolutely love decorating for a dinner party, and for someone who cannot eat so many things due to health complications, I'm a real foodie and still manage to pack away 6-7 meals a day. Alcohol is for special occasions for me now, I never drink at home anymore.. well, maybe at Christmas.. and maybe when there's a pandemic and you can't get out as much.. hmmmm..
This gorgeous outfit, all All About Audrey (www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk) is perfect for a dinner date. Love that cute necktie! What do you think? Is this something you would wear?
Dining room set design by me at The Hacienda, London.
Toronto, Canada.
Model: Alexandra Palma
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When you don't want to throw out your old curtains..
I'm kidding, these vibrant gold swathes of fabric aren't really curtains, they're actually huge satin tablecloths I ordered for the reception when I got married in 2010 and then kept all this time, (even though I decided not to keep the man!)
This photo is a throwback to July 2019, taken at the beautifully sumptuous Hacienda home studio / creative space in Shoreditch, London, which became my second home for quite a substantial time.
I had some time to kill here on this day and decided to shoot some self-portraits using pools of swirly fabric.
I ironed everything first because I wasn't prepared to spend hours in Photoshop removing endless unsightly creases.
I think there's little worse than a beautiful gown with a tonne of creases & folds.
The ironing took about 3 hours in total - this shoot took 10 minutes from start to finish!
Don't wait for something like Valentine's Day to get romantic. It's not about hearts & flowers & candy & cards & mush anyway - it's about love - LIFE is about love.
So for as many days of the year as possible, love the amazing people in your life; love the jeans that make your butt look awesome, the particularly amazing coffee you had this morning, and the last thing or person which made you laugh. Love your four-legged fluff monsters, songs with beautiful memories attached, and above all things - love YOU.
Spread the love..
This gorgeous, romantic, vintage rouge feather peignoir is a one-off piece by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk, photographed here as a self-portrait at The Hacienda, London
"She lives on Love Street, lingers long on Love Street
She has a house & garden, I would like to see what happens.."
Listening to The Doors this afternoon during the storm.. here's another self-portrait from my Bohemian Garden photographic event at The Hacienda, London.
This entire set was created for said incredibly expensive specific photographic project where a portion of the proceeds went to the charity Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
🔸Log cabin backdrop printed by Mark Goddard
🔸Log cabin veranda & steps made from scratch by myself & Simone Orsini
🔸All set design / props / styling details made & sourced by me
🔸Clothing by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
🔸Location is The Hacienda studio, London
🔸Models (from left): Jade Lyon, Irida S, Jessica Taylor, me (in blonde wig) and Soria Rosee
Finding a big enough hat to protect my bald head from the sun like..
I no longer have a bald head, but a fluffy curly head of short dark hair. I sure am glad I lost my hair over the summer months last year, and not winter - it would have been so cold!
However, there is also the risk of burning your scalp with no hair to protect it, so I found this fabulous huge sombrero for this self-portrait session in my garden, which my boyfriend's sister has temporarily loaned me (although I've had it over a year now)
The set is my last gorgeous garden teepee, which sadly fell apart last winter. I have the same teepee now but larger - larger in circumference by a meter, taller by half a meter, and the doorway is much taller..
This playsuit is one of my favourite items of clothing, but that's not saying much I know! You've probably worked out by now I love clothes - the more colourful & patterned the better!
It's a gorgeous golden yellow with an olive green tribal / leaf pattern - super slouchy, comfortable, flowy with cropped, super wide-legs and it has a delicate tie around the waist with the cutest mini tassels.
It came from a tiny little boutique in Brighton, UK called All About Audrey. I stepped in one day whilst killing time waiting for my train and fell instantly in love with the whole store (and Audrey too, the lady who owns it)
Audrey has since played a huge part in my styling shennanigans since this day and I am so grateful for her help, talent & generosity, which I will go into in full over my next posts, so please do keep coming back to get hooked on more bohemian goodness!
15 more weeks til my 2nd yearly hospital check-up with the surgeon who physically saved my life at the end of 2018.
Almost 2 years ago, he successfully removed a 1cm malignant tumour from my right breast, and a few lymph nodes to check the cancer hadn't spread, (it hadn't) and I recovered quickly.
Today I can barely see the scar around my nipple, and I can't see the one in my armpit at all.
Every year I am scheduled for a mammogram as a precaution, but a mammogram didn't detect my tumour back then - the result was negative, but an ultrasound thankfully picked it up.
Why?
Well, because my breast tissue is dense.. I am relatively young and haven't had children, and this can mean a mammogram may not be the most effective method of detection in similar patients.
I had a 1 year mammogram check-up in December 2019 which again came back negative but to my pleasant surprise, I didn't just have a consultation as expected after one year, I was given an ultrasound too, which was clear and completely put my mind at ease.
I would love to see breast cancer survivors under 50 and those in the same age bracket getting screened due to ominous symptoms receive routine ultrasounds rather than mammograms in the future.. for peace of mind for many patients with dense breast tissue like myself.
I am writing a book of my day-to-day personal experience with breast cancer, featuring many of my self-portraits taken during that time, plus candids & I cannot wait to present this to you in the coming months!
And now changing the subject slightly.. this stunning ensemble of flares, bell-sleeve cropped tie top & headscarf is by All About Audrey of course - my favourite bohemian bouique(!) photographed in my bedouin boudoir set at The Hacienda, London by yours truly - yes, it's another self-portrait of course, as it my entire portfolio here!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
I've surfaced from a three-day Mad Men binge, and now all I can do is wait on tenterhooks for the Season 3 premiere next month. In the meantime, I'll continue to obsess over the work of Amy Wells, the show's incredible set designer. She's revealed a few of her furniture and decor sources in various interviews, without going so far as to identify specific pieces. I've read that set designers guard their sources carefully -- and I would, too, if my interiors looked as good as this!
Do a little research, though, and you'll learn that the chair, couch, and coffee table in Don Draper's office (above) are the 'Boxy' models from Futurama, a maker of custom vintage furniture in L.A. Word is that Wells shops there a lot, as well as at Xcape (in Long Beach). The chair in the foreground, above right, looks like Finn Juhl, but I have yet to find a model that's an exact match. If anyone has more info, please let me know!
Photo credit: AMC.
What are your favourite / funniest predictive text swaps?
Every time I write 'hope' it changes to 'hippie' (naturally!)
- Hippie for more perfect days in the woods, building canopies & making fire, just like we did last summer..
- Hippie for relaxation & creativity..
- Hippie for great health..
I didn't really make it clear in my last post, but I am now completely free from breast cancer. I had caught it super early and surgery was the cure for me just a month after diagnosis. I decided to mix holistic treatment, (yoga, mindfulness & the use of essential oils) with conventional adjuvent treatment in the form of advised chemotherapy & radiotherapy to minimise my chances of a reoccurance.
Sometimes it's hard to know if you're making the right decision, especially if you're generally pulled towards a more natural approach to healing, but cancer is harsh and I'm young, and killing it with fire (so to speak!) felt the right thing to do.
It's a very personal choice and one which you, after analysing your own personal survival statistics shouldn't be coaxed into by others.
Here is another self -portrait with assisted focus by my lovely man, Simon as the smoke was pretty strong.
This science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who encounter the Alien, an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the ship.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLamj-b0I8
When you're tired, make sure you have somewhere beautiful to lay your head.
How you style your space says a lot about how you are as a person and is now more important than ever during the lockdown.
What are you trying to say?
How many people ever thought they would be spending this much time in their home?
It's so important to love your space and make it yours. Owning it with money isn't enough - personalise it, put your soul into it, wake up and feel your energy & love in every corner - that's how you make a home.
Location is the gorgeous @haciendalondon, taken July 2019
Some nice Fotodiox stocking stuffers: The FlapJack LED C-200R, Mini Tabletop Tripod, Vizelex ND Throttle, GoTough Sharkcage, Tough E-Mount, and B4 Magic.
- Photo by Sean Anderson
How fabulous is this?!! This paper theatre folds up into book form, and has four scenes: "Moonlight Ballet", "Opera Castle", "Paddington Station" and "Country Landscape".
According to the inscription this was my 9th birthday present. I still treasure it to this day (how well my mother knew me!!). I wonder if this was the same birthday I received a football from a well-meaning relative...apparently I eyed it with a mixture of bafflement and distrust before discarding forever! (I was not very sporty).
“The three astronauts make their way across the uncharted planetoid.”
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5lPt9edzQ
When you hook up with your girlfriends and end up in a food coma..
Seriously though, this photo (and other group self-portraits to be posted over the next few days) has a little story.
In November 2019, I styled, directed, and modelled for a fairly large-scale photographic event over 8 days at The Hacienda London, with a total of 12 models, 16 photographers, countless various behind-the-scenes guys, beautiful vintage & Indian-inspired styling from All About Audrey (see last post) and collectively we raised over £1000 for Battersea Dogs & Cats home in London to help stray & abandoned pets find the forever home they deserve.
It's crazy to think this room was comparatively empty before I installed buckets of dried leaves, rose petals, sackcloth, rugs, all the bohemian table decor and of course a ukelele!
And much more out of shot which will be revealed in future posts, so stay tuned. I'm so excited to be able to share these photos with you as this is by far the largest scaled event I've ever styled & directed!
Models: (from top) Jessica Tyalor, Irida S, Roisin Marie, me (in blonde wig), Jade Lyon, Nicole Rayner & Soria Rosee
Set design, photography & retouching by me
Photography assistance by my wonderful partner, Simone Orsini
Clothing by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
Location is The Hacienda home studio, Shoreditch, London
Cinecittà Studios, Roma
Straight out of the Camera. No Photoshop. Shoot a compelling image and post it without edits. No cheating!
1/12th scale sculpture model of Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery, NYC. Mixed media. 23" x 17" x 8".
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Hello again Flickr!
A few months ago, I was working on a YouTube to give even more insight to my creative, work / play life, where I work from, where I go, who I work with, my own personal projects, collaborations with brands and so much more..
Buttt.. life took hold and as usual, I found myself taking on too much, so it didn't happen. Add to that, everyone telling you what they think is the latest & best social media and everything suddenly gets very confusing. I must recorded my YouTube 'intro' about 50 times before I had anything with which I was vaguely content.. and nobody has that amount of time to fanny around like that.
I've since started a TikTok account and actually I really like it on there.. link here if you want to follow: www.tiktok.com/@toulouki
What other social media do you all prefer?
Doors will always open for you if you make space for mental clarity & growth.. but not if you don't, or if they're part of a convincing printed backdrop like this one here, printed by my photographer friend, Mark as part of my handmade log cabin set from The Bohemian Garden photograpic event.
This gorgeous vintage embroidered smock dress is by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk and the location is The Hacienda, London
Fotodiox's FlapJack LED Edgelights are lightweight, ultra thin LED panels that are easy to transport and set up and produce soft, even light, perfect for almost any photo or video shoot! Here, Bohus shows how to use it to light your Halloween Jack-O-Lantern!
Head on over to our Youtube channel to see our new Halloween pumpkin carving video, featuring our LED FlapJack Edgelight.
Have you got a song you could listen to over & over & it reminds you of a happy time?
Mine is probably the Beatles' Across The Universe - we listened to this, the whole of the Let It Be & Revolver albums and other non-stop sitar music during this wonderful 7-day shoot extravaganza.
I can't speak for the others, but couldn't get enough! Music is like a drug.
- Clothing by All About Audrey: allaboutaudrey.co.uk
- Models: (from left)
Back row - Jade Lyon, Ayla Rose, me
Front row - Jessica Taylor, Irida S, Soria Rosee
- Direction, set design, props, photography & retouching by me
- BTS guys: Simone Orsini & John Hughesman
- Location: The Hacienda, London
This wasn't really taken in Morroco, but my back garden around this time last year when I was practising tying huge headscarves around my bald head.
Sadly, I lost this entire self-portrait shoot on a hard drive which failed and was unrecoverable - devastated is not the word! I love technology but sometimes I really hate it too!
I think it's easy to forget how far you've come.
Pick a moment in time and compare with where you are now. You may not be especially happy or you may even be ill at present, but you will have grown so much from previous years, learning new lessons, growing more conscious, possibly without realising.
Your independence is a credit to you - you are a treasure which is rare & difficult to pin down or possess. Keep evolving!
Here is a self-portrait wearing my favourite colours in a pile of leaves in the sun..
Wearing a retro bikini by Palmers, kimono by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
Location is The Hacienda, London