YES, TODAY I TAKE YOU ON A FASHION SHOOT FOR ITALIAN VOGUE! THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS STEVEN MEISEL AND THE LOCATION IS THE KOREAN CEMETERY IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES.
At 8 o’clock sharp the chauffeur is at the door and off we go in a shiny black Mercedes, hair washed and a clean face, (only red lips because I don’t go anywhere without them) an other adventure! Never worked with Steven so that is fun and very curious who is going to be there. It took about 3 quarters of an hour to get there because of the heavy traffic most of us know so well. Upon arriving I was guided immediately to the breakfast table full of goodies, mostly very healthy ones. It was going to be a hot day… and there she was, beautiful Linda E:”hello. how are you, nice to meet you”
and slowly more and more people came on the scene: master hairdresser Guido and his 5 disciples, Pat Mc Grath, the make up artists queen, with 5 or 6 of her followers, Vogue stylist Karl Templer and his band, several assistants, caterers, all wonderful people, very relaxed.
Finally Steven arrived and the commotion starts, fittings, this for you that for you, hmmm, that will look good on you ,or no better this and so on. There were about 8 tents to accommodate the make up tables, A cabin to relax, a cabin to change, tables and tables of accessories and racks and racks of the most gorgeous clothes, YSL ( in who’s honour this shoot was), Chanel, Dior, Dolce y Cabana, Gaulthier, everything black! Beautiful Bags by Chanel and Vuitton, great shoes but such high heels that even when I put them a few minutes, strictly for the picture, I got already cramps in my legs.
Steven knows exactly what he wants and does not shoot rolls and rolls of film, everybody is attend and the props are working, rain, fans for wind and blowing leaves. A few shots and they see the result immediately because they have an incredible set up going on.
One sits around a lot because they are preparing for the next shot and that is indeed a lot of work, there are
7 models here, 4 women and 3 men and each has to be made up and coifed and then dressed and then all the accessories, which take time to sort out: this hat with that gloves, no, better with the long gloves and a bracelet!
The make up artist that was assigned to me was very funny and entertaining, his name is Jeffrey A. Kyle (on Face Book).
The girls were wonderful and extremely beautiful I thought, good time to be a model now…..…
The lunch was fantastic and everything went smoothly, a great day all together.
Around 5 or 6 the chauffeur was ready to bring me back, there were a lot of black cars that is for sure. Next day same thing…
… this is what it takes….…
and that is how it goes.…
It was Pat’s birthday, so there was a delicious cake and champagne to close the day. The wrap up, as they say!
… with some long moments in between, for Vogue no one is in a hurry because it is not that every minute costs a fortune like for publicity
interview by Linda Morand for MMM’s.In this interview you can read more about it and if you are still not bored
THIS IS THE STORY, here you can see some pictures of the Vogue spread.
Hope you enjoyed this one, I thought it was a good occasion to show the pictures I made that day… otherwise what do I do with them?
OMG!!!! I’m totally shocked with this issue, Alex told me all of the details, but your photos are great!
Congrats, you have worked with the best photographers ever!
En agosto de 2008 estuve en Milán y compré la revista, el editorial me pareció maravilloso, soy muy fan de Linda E. y colecciono fotos de ella. A los pocos días, Alejandro Van Rooy, un icono de moda en España, escribió un post al respecto de ese editorial hablando sobre ti, sobre su madre.
A finales de los 90’s, en una pequeña librería de Londres, compré un libro de los 70’s que celebraba el 75 aniversario de Vogue UK. Y ahí salían tus fotos de Helmut Newton
en ese editorial mítico con la avioneta.
Una historia de moda maravillosa y contada en primera persona, por una leyenda viva de la moda. Espero conocerte algun día y me firmes esas fotos. Besos.
Thank’s for all the pictures, and the history, now we had a really Behind the scene!! Lovely pictures. And you look really great!
Love it! and love the pictures YOU took! especially of Linda when she looked staright at you…very nice. Well what can we say you’ve got it girl!
Que buen reportaje con lo que me gusta “linda”, y la portada maravillosa….un día para no olvidar, no??? un saludo y estaré al tanto de las cositas que haces. muaaaaaaa
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Wonderful behind the scenes pictures. Great story. Ahhh…if we could still model like that nowadays. I love your stories and pictures. You are a classic. xxxxx
love that he found you Willy on MiniMadMods
Miss Morand was certainly onto something with that site
Linda Morand’s minimadmods was a dream
and so are you Willy
Love this Willy! I think it’s great for people to know how it all comes about. I was a stylist in Paris for about 3 years and used to be on loads of shoots, I think it’s fascinating what goes into it all. Please keep telling us! You look as wonderful as ever …
Willy! on the road again! This is the first of hundreds pictures we will see with your beautyful face.Georgeous again!!!