lie sang bong ss12

My journalist friend Michael Reyes just forwarded me this video that he worked on for crane.tv about Korean designer Lie Sang Bong's SS12 collection. The collection was inspired by the bright colors and intricate patterns associated with Korean buddhist temples also known as 'jul / 줄'.
"Hailed as the "Korean McQueen," Seoul-based fashion designer Lie Sang Bong has dressed everyone from South Korea's First Ladies to international stars like Beyoncé and Lindsay Lohan. Crane.tv visits him in his studio in Gangnam-Gu where the former costume and set designer tells us about his childhood dreams and wanting to communicate Korean cultural identity to the world."
Here are a few of my favorite looks from his latest collection including those very cool melty face masks.






























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ballad of cover by paulina surys

photography / Paulina Otylie Surys
model / singer Nadine Shah
styling / Masha Mombelli
makeup / Megumi Matsuno
hair / Noriko Takayama
set design / Adriana Iacovou
photographers assistants / Chad Burton & Sameer Sawant


This is the very dark and spooky cover story called Dark Aurora for Ballad Of Magazine that I assisted the super talented photographer Paulina Otylie Surys with about a month ago. Paulina shoots a lot black & white with old school film cameras (even those ones that you put your head under a black cloth to see through the view finder) then hand tints the images herself. We shot on location at the very lux Beach Blanket Babylon in Notting Hill and had a stellar team of stylists, makeup & hair artists and set designers.  The wigs were ridiculous cool and the set design added to the macabre mood.    I'm so happy to see the amazing outcome!























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circus: erotic @ café de paris

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