winter 2010/11 lookbook pictures
photography: Paul Reinquin
model: Stephanie Frederickx
make-up & styling: Spurred & Laced
F/W 2010 is a prolongation of the body transformation / restriction theme developed for Summer 2010.
Almost all women in fashion and film appearing in the media today have been perfected using light, special camera angles and computer manipulation.
Schipper/Arques believes women should be aware of the fact they are looking at a specially created ‘image’, not depicting reality, just like they would look at a science fiction movie.
read on…
summer 2010 additional pictures:
photography: Paul Reinquin
model: Tessa Van Winkel
make-up & styling: Spurred & Laced
A 21-year-old girl born in a wealthy former planter family is raised by her Creole nanny in the deep south of the USA.
In her family women are expected to permanently wear restrictive, body correcting shoulder braces, strapping back her shoulders to obtain a slim Victorian silhouette and a stiff headpiece to keep an upright posture.
In contrast to that, she is a young girl in the 21st century, respecting her families traditions and expectations but she finds a way to live her own life and create her own reality.
Since her nanny mainly raised her, she adapted part of south Louisiana culture and superstitions, and therefore a strong believe in root work and conjures, wich she uses to her manipulate her own life the way her braces manipulate her body…
summer 2010 publicity pictures:
photography: Simon Baerts
(butterfly picture by Boris Schipper)
model: Stephanie Frederickx
make-up & styling: Spurred & Laced
The collection for Summer 2010 is inspired by the cultural and religious influences a Southern Louisiana Creole nanny and her superstitions would have on a young socialite born in an affluent, severe family of planters descendants. Family values require her to grow up in a certain way, physically and emotionally, expecting her to wear extremely restrictive shoulder-braces and headpieces to force her in a certain posture.
read on…
Lookbook winter 2009/10
photography: Paul Reinquin
model: Stephanie Frederickx
make -up & styling: Spurred and laced
The Schipper/Arques collection for fall/winter 2009 was inspired by the welsh myth of ‘Blodeuwedd’. read on…
