Fortmakers: Montauk (outtakes)

Dancing Ties for Fortmakers

I love working with the folks at Fortmakers, because we do things like this.  These amazing ties, handpainted by Naomi Clark, have a life of their own.  We are headed to Montauk this weekend for something even more fun.  Hope your summer is going well.

You can find these ties by contacting Fortmakers or online at Grey Area or End of Century

Kaleidoscope of girls

I made these for the Fortmakers project. Click on them to see them larger, please.

Space girls are....

Look book images for Fortmakers.

Fortmakers

I had the good fortune recently to meet the good people of Fortmakers and we are working on their lookbook for their Fall 2012 collection. Their clothes are beautiful and filled with energy and life, it buzzes right out of their fingertips. Fortmakers is a company where art and commerce have somehow found a way to live together in an authentic way, which I believe is rare. Totally cosmic. This picture is kind of an outtake.

I see you

A view from above at Lincoln Center plaza this morning.

Get excited

Oh it is almost Fall. I can feel it in the air, the few sharp turns of a breeze, the leaves caught in my scarf, the boots taken to the cobbler and hot toddies on the horizon. Ok, today was still pretty hot, and I was carrying an umbrella around Lincoln Center for the first day of ye ol' Fashion Week for no reason. I have been super busy lately with the picture taking, which is wonderful. Here are some of my favorites from a lookbook yesterday for Annabelle. She knocks it out of the park every time.

Working Life: Melissa, August 3, 2011, New York City

Melissa Lopez-Leach runs the show over at Annabelle's new store in the Lower East Side on Ludlow Street.

Annabelle NYC has a new store!

TODAY, March 4, 2011, my old friend Anna McCraney is opening a store at 105 Stanton Street in New York. This is HUGE. If you know me or have read this blog in the past, you might know I have shot a lot of work for various lookbooks and campaigns of Anna's in the past. I might have also played a wolf in a fashion show of hers....maybe. But, I definitely am a big fan of her fashion, as well as giant fan of Anna herself. We did a special ceremony at the new store recently and I have a really good feeling this is going to work out like gangbusters for her, as well as for Melissa Lopez-Leach, her lovely Retail Manager.

Annabelle NYC
105 Stanton Street
New York, NY, 10002
Hours:
Mon - Thurs: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fri - Sat: 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sun: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

I also have a print up there for sale, along with such illustrious company as Glen Baldridge, Joseph Hart, Andrea Hackman, Ryan Wallace, Ben Woodward, Leif Parsons, Jesse Goldstein, Matt Lienes, Andrew Jeffery Wright, and Isaac Lin. I am honored to be a part of Anna's inaugural retail location. GO CHECK the new store!

Here is some vintage Annabelle from 2005 at Galagapos! Remember Galapagos when it was on N6? Seems like a while ago.

lookbook for Annabelle

new line by my friend Anna McCraney of Bravo's Fashion Show fame, shot on a Brooklyn rooftop yesterday with the lovely Gelya Robb.....and Mabel

Annabelle: Earth Girls Are Easy show 9/12/10

Yesterday, my friend Anna held a fashion show at the B Bar in New York. It was a success.

earrings by Katie Maguire
Annabelle and Francesca
Katie Maguire
Mabel

go see: American High Style at the Brooklyn Museum

go see this new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum: American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection. May 7 – August 1, 2010. I worked on this project for a bit in 2008, photographing some of the collection with a great team. We went to the member's preview last week and it was wonderful!

new work: Annabelle by Anna McCraney

depression era carnival wandering lovely girl for Anna McCraney.

New work: Sundance Channel/Full Frontal Fashion

I have been working on a project with the good folks over at Sundance Channel/Full Frontal Fashion, visiting designers studios and getting a look at what they do and where they work, documenting it with photos. The project goes live on their website today and I am super excited to be a part of it. Check it out here. This was especially fun for me, as it relates directly to my Working Life project. Funny how things work out like that.

Annabelle for sale!

another shameless plug for a friend, Anna McCraney who makes beautiful things. plus I took these photos as well. I own one of the strapless dresses and I love it. You can get yours here.

new work for Anna McCraney

I did some shots for my friend Anna McCraney's upcoming new line of clothes last week before we left for LA. you know, that chick that won The Fashion Show on Bravo this summer???

Congratulations Anna!

A few weeks ago now my dear friend Anna McCraney won The Fashion Show on Bravo! I have been away in CT with limited internet so my oceans of tons of warm wishes and congratulations for her are belated, but it's pretty dang amazing. 56% of America voted for her to win the jackpot prize money, with which she will now proceed to conquer the fashion industry. Go Anna! This picture is from a slightly smaller show of hers in 2005, at Galapagos (RIP).

Kela Cala Q jewelry by Lara Kurtzman

did a shoot this past Sunday for my friend Lara's jewelry line, Kela Cala Q, and Anna's new clothing line Miranda Darkling.