I originally intended to shoot my dress on a female model, however a lot of people were commenting on how androgynous my outfit was, therefore I thought it would be more interesting to shoot it on a male model. I chose Frankie as my model as I thought he had a very adolescent look and wanted a model that looked like an angsty teenager. This is because one of the initial themes I explored at the beginning of this project was youth rebellion . This angsty teenage look also relates to my 1990's inspired aesthetic which I seem to use very frequently at the moment. To emphasise the 90's teenage theme, I gelled Frankie's hair into curtains which were a style frequently sported by 90's boy bands and football fans. Frankie was also wearing and ear stretcher, which I thought added a reference to modern day rebellion and alternative culture.
I wanted to use an urban landscape as the location to emphasise the gritty, bleak, urban theme of my outfit. I chose Scape- The Ravensbourne accommodation as the location for my shoot as it provided a good, urban, concrete background without being too obvious.
Frankie also just happened to be drinking a can of Relentless and I thought it would work well in the shoots as it is quite an aggressive, masculine drink (it is very high caffeine content and the branding is very harsh), often drink by teenage boys. The green colour of the can was also complimentary to the orange in the outfit.
I was really happy with how this shoot went as I feel it captured the exact mood that I wanted to portray. If I could change anything, I would have preferred a slightly more interesting and less sterile urban space as my location.
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