Art Deco Chic

On March 8th, 2012 our fashion history class paid a visit to the Museum of Vancouver to see an Art Deco exhibit which featured beautifully crafted dresses and gowns from the 1920's-1940's. We were all astounded upon walking into the exhibit, our mouths gaping and our eyes wide, every single dress was more fabulous than the other. This entire field trip was every fashion student's dream. We had surely never seen such beautiful garments in our lives. Our entire class was ready to leave once we thought we had seen everything so we decided to wait for our teacher in the lobby. Once she found us she asked what we were doing sitting in the lobby because there was an entire section of the museum we hadn't experienced yet. We were all shocked that there was still more to come! We walked to the other side of the museum where it took us on a journey through the decades! 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, you name it! If I could pick one of my favourite John Casablancas memories, it would have to be this day! This was one of the last days of term two and we were all completely burnt out, so to end this class on a light note with my 136 family was just what we needed. 

American Beauty

I was going looking through all the photo shoots that I have styled for during my time at JCI and I've come to realize that while I have loved every shoot that I've ever styled for, I most definitely have a favourite. It's hard to say why this shoot could be defined as my "favourite," considering when you actually look at the finished product, there's not very much of a styling aspect to it. I mean, she's simply wearing a cream coloured lace dress, with a braided rope tied around her waist, anyone could put that together, right? Well, I suppose that's probably true, but it's not so much the styling of this photoshoot that I am proud of, it's the concept. As a class we were asked to draw inspiration from something in order to come up with our concept for the shoot. So I began to think of things that really inspire me and I realized that my biggest inspirations usually stem from movies and films. After I came up with that idea, I decided to narrow it down to one individual film in particular, American Beauty. Everything about it just really speaks to me. The entire plot line, the underlying theme, the writing, the cinematography, the art direction. In my opinion, it's one of the greatest films of all time. So I suppose you could say that this photoshoot is kind of an ode to American Beauty 

Here is the finished product of the shoot. It's based on any of the scenes in which red roses flutter to the screen. I'm also so thankful that I had the beautiful Anastasia as my model. She embodied Mena Suvari's character from the film so well!  

Model: Anastasia Baysheva 

Photographer: Budianto Nasrun

Photo Editing: Samuel Olsen

Make-up Artist: Teresa Hornacek

Styling and Concept: Celina Booth

The Housewives

On April 15th, I took part in a John Casablancas BYOB. No, it does not stand for "Bring Your Own Booze," it stands for "Build Your Own Book." Before the BYOB, a fashion student must be paired with a hair stylist, make-up artist, model and photographer in order to create something worthy of being published to String Magazine. Usually the photographer is a professional working in the industry but JCI was short one photographer so I recommended my best friend, Sam. Luckily, he was paired with me, which was fortunate because we make a brilliant team. Now that we had our team, the next thing point of order was to come up with a concept and theme for our photoshoot. With a little bit of brainstorming we came up with two themes, which were colour blocking and 50's housewives. In order to make the 50's housewife come to life we decided that she should be doing typical 50's housewife chores. So the week before the BYOB, Sam and I searched high and low through our houses to find props that could be useful. At the end of our searches we had generated an iron, an ironing board, a vintage arm chair, a ceramic pastel coloured cat, a watering can, and a cherry pie. While this whole shoot was a lot of work, and a lot of heavy lifting, I was extremely pleased with the outcome. I am incredibly thankful to have had such a wonderful team and now I suppose we just wait and see what happens with these pictures.

A few photos from the shoot! 

Model: Kathleen Moir

Photographer: Samuel Olsen

Hair Stylist: Jessica Fletcher

Make-up Artist: Brooke Williams

Styling: Celina Booth

busy bee

Well it's been quite sometime since I've posted anything on here but I've been hella busy with school and life but the good news is I've got a ton of stuff to blog about! I'm about to be updating this blog with all my recent inspirations, photoshoots and news about our upcoming fashion show! 

ugly day

I'm having a really ugly day today/I'm super grumpy so you probably don't want to see my face. I don't really have much to say other than the fact that I just wanna go back to bed and wait until term 3 starts when I can finally have some fun again at school rather than all this non-stop stress.

In the pictures of above the dress, shirt, and socks are from American Apparel, the leggings (that I had lost for a year and just found in my basement) are from Aritzia and my most cherished possession, my creepers, are from Devon shoes in Metrotown in which they sell the most bomb shoes and creepers in all sorts of different colours, I highly advise anyone to check it out

marketing shmarketing

Sigh, well it's wednesday today, the beginning of another school week and I have a marketing final exam today, sigh. I did so well on my first one but I know I'm just going to bomb it today. I'm feeling really exhausted lately so I hope I can just make it through the day with a smile on my face. I have an editorial shoot on friday that I'm really stressing out about so there's a lot of stuff to do right now. Busy, busy, busy. 

In the pictures above I'm wearing my grandma's shirt. I love all of her clothes, an acid wash jean jacket from USED, a cord skirt from American Apparel, cream coloured knee high socks from american apparel, Deborah's blue American Apparel circle scarf, a green velvet twist scarf from American Apparel, glasses from H&M, the same $2 belt from Value Village that I've been wearing for the past week and green oxford shoes from Urban Outfitters

Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club

Finished product of my Breakfast Club shoot. I am so happy with it! 

Model: Mary Saunders

Photographer: Samuel Olsen

Hair: Jennifer Nagra

Make-up: Courtney Jones

Styling: Me (Celina Booth)

Special thanks to Alyssa Reese, Lea Kundicevic, and Mona Ancheta for letting me raid your wardrobe