From: Why Body Graffiti Now?
Our new/first photo shoot features some black scrawling on people’s hands. I call it body graffiti because I can’t deal with body paint. When I was a small child, I saw a tragic poster of a vibrantly painted model, and I found it so nasty that I decided I was gonna hate body adornment for life (on me, anyway). Seems perfectly rational to stick with lifelong decisions you make as a preschooler. Obvs I have no tattoos.
For the shoot, the graffiti gave us something to play with at an otherwise stagnant studio setting. Staged photos wouldn’t have been a good introduction to this new band. From doesn’t pose. Plus I figured some rough black shapes would look more like party pranks than garish/gratuitous/disgusting body paint. Ew, could you imagine? I can’t let it go.
Here’s Rodrigo painting a bird onto Val’s hand:
Turns out this idea was hovering elsewhere at the same time. Here’s some tribal body paint at the Rodarte spring/summer 2010 show:
Rodarte’s makeup artists used MAC at the show, so it’s likely we both worked with the same products: Chroma Cake and the Mixing Medium/Water Base. The alcohol base does not dry faster than the water base, surprisingly. It was fun to research. I want the Chroma Cake in every color, just to look at.
Jean Paul Gaultier went for a goth direction for the black paint at his spring/summer 2010 runway:
Karl Lagerfeld, whom I shamelessly idolize, paralleled our surrealism but went for more of a tattoo look at the Chanel spring/summer 2010 show:
Isabelli Fontana appears on the cover of Paris Vogue, Nov 09 – Keith Haring goes fashion tribal:
I sincerely thought I was onto something different, but it’s nearly impossible for me to like something for its own sake. I’ve got fashion slavery ingrained. Most stuff I’m into ends up coming out of someone else’s sketch pad either immediately or 18-24 months later. Fact.
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