Impromptu Fashion Shoot

I have been combing back through my images from Columbia Style Week, Recently renamed Columbia Fashion Week, and grouping images by designers, models, hair and make up artist so I can find things quickly should someone call. Better then putting someone on hold as I try to look through 3000 images. I ran across these, which had fallen through the cracks the last day.

As we were winding down to the finale of Style Week, we had our designers coming in for one last sit down with the press, each bringing a model to showcase a look they would have in the show that evening. I was there as I was most days to get images for PR and to check that we were running smoothly. Being a Saturday afternoon, there was a lot of running around, especially at a place as busy as the Sheraton. People checking in, checking out, wedding parties waiting in the lobby for the last person to get ready. You get the picture.

Add to that, a bevy of models dressed for the runway, hair and makeup people doing touch ups, and it was a little chaos. But the good kind.

The kind that creativity germinates from.

So we grabbed a few models and made our own event, an impromptu fashion shoot right there in the Vault at the Sheraton.

I was in a lucky spot because the designer and model that are in these images are both women I had worked with before, Jennifer Ghelardini from the Ghelardini Collection, who just recently had come back to Columbia after studying and working in New York, and Emily Hammond, an amazing model and true professional. They were both up for doing something fun while we killed a little time.

Emily especially is a joy to work with. She knows her stuff and moves fluidly, knows when to stop and when to transition. And she brings a lot of energy. Most of these poses are her playing with the space and trying different things.