PlaztikMag – Art Studio Photoshoot (2010)

I met Mimi, stylist and media guru, a few years ago when we were both standing in line to crash a fashion show at Bryant Park. We became friends immediately, and in no time, Mimi was sending me to different runways during New York’s Fashion Week for photo assignment contributions for her blog, PlaztikMag*. 

A few years later, on a cold day in January, I hosted a fashion photo shoot for PlaztikMag in my art studio. The resulting video and photos for the project would feature different sorts of young New York women called, “Downtown Girl”. A little bit of her exists in all of us- she's the creative, free-spirit; the demure and reserved bookworm; the music-lover who loves to play it loud; but be careful- she can also be dangerous.

You know her; she rises at noon, she stays up very late, she calls the deepest, darkest innards of the city her playground, and through it all, she's forever the stylish fille. The first “girl” profiled in the series was The Artist, an urban archetype who was styled and photographed in my Brooklyn art studio. As you can see, before doing any painting, The Artist sits back and thinks very deep thoughts! On the day of the shoot, Team PlaztikMag arrived with a mammoth suitcase of clothes and a giant duffle bag of lighting equipment.

Then, the model, April, and her mom arrived in a taxi. After a quick coffee run, the hair and makeup artist arrived too. The kitchen and bathroom became the styling and wardrobe area, and my art studio was the staging area for two of the “looks” (out of four). My little Brooklyn apartment was a beehive of activity! PlaztikMag’s aesthetic highlights the grit that evokes the feeling of the early 80's New York that has been missing in the New York that I came to know during my twenty years living there.

 * No Longer Online

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