These images below show an enchanting Marie Antoinette inspired editorial from Elle Sweden. It is beautifully fascinating how talented some stylists can be, and how they are able to play with clothes created for a 21 century princess and create an atmosphere so gorgeous and era-appropriate as this.
So why these images, why have they inspired me? Well look at them, they are everything I am looking for within my shoot and more. I love the way they have the girls grouped together giggling and acting cheeky. They emulate beauty and passion, and the soft lighting and light clothing all mix together. In my own shoots, the editorial mainly, I want to create like this, the lighting and colouring especially, its so light and sweet!
These iamges below would look great for my night shoot. They have the elegance like above but with the lighting, backdrop and presence they feel a lot colder and better fitted to the look I want. I may make mine look a bit warmer but these image below couldn't be ignored as they are beautiful!
Also the hair! its perfect for what I am thinking to do with my own wig, but less all over the place!
Vogue Germany April 2014
Photographer: Luigi + Iango
Stylist: Patti Wilson
Paintings by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Without Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s many portraits of Marie-Antoinette, our mental image of the Queen would be different, so iconic have these paintings become.
"It was in the year 1779, she writes, that I painted the Queen for the first time; she was then in the heyday of her youth and beauty [she was twenty four]. Marie-Antoinette was tall and admirably built, being somewhat stout, but not excessively so. Her arms were superb, her hands small and perfectly formed, and her feet charming. She had the best gait of any woman in France, carrying her head erect with a dignity that marked her as the Queen in the midst of her whole Court, her majestic mien, however, not in the least diminishing the sweetness and amiability of her face.
To anyone who has not seen the Queen, it is difficult to get an idea of all the graces and nobility combined in her person. Her features were not regular; she had inherited that long and narrow oval peculiar to the Austrian nation. Her eyes were not large; in colour they were almost blue, and they were at the same time merry and kind. Her nose was slender and pretty, and her mouth not too large, though her lips were rather thick.But the most remarkable thing about her face was the splendour of her complexion. I never have seen one so brilliant, and brilliant is the word, for her skin was so transparent that it bore no umber in the painting. Neither could I render the real effect of it as I wished. I had no colours to paint such freshness, such delicate tints, which were hers alone, and which I had never seen in any other woman."
These painting show the grace of a young women, lavished in beautiful garments, and hair accessories showing her youth and wealth. These paintings have inspired me in the way my models will be positioned and how to create the texture I want on the face. As I tried to so the shoot with the face looking cracked with Acrylic paint and Fullers Earth and it didn't work, I think I will make them have the sheen that these paintings do.
Going to the V&A and National Portrait Gallery on many occasions, looking at the paintings up close you can see the slight cracking, from ageing, but they have a gloss to them, so to make my life easier, I will make my models face have this sheen and also make it so you can see the brush strokes, or even just apply natural texture to the skin like freckles.
Overall, looking into recent works and older paintings I can get to grasps with what I want out of my shoot, what will work and what doesn't. The images above have made me really sure on my idea and how to make the best image possible.
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