Girl Shapes

Hello, everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I realize it's been quite some time since my last post, but as I have been settling into my new home, I've been applying to places and going to interviews. I recently started a new job in retail, and I'm proud to say that I survived my very first Black Friday! Anyways, as it is the holiday season, my work is very busy and to help pay for all the Christmas gifts, I've been scooping up extra hours. This leaves me with very little free-time and since Alex has also been working, the two of us have hardly had any time together with our conflicting schedules. 

I was beginning to think that I needed to take a hiatus from my blogging and pick it back up in a few months or so because I felt so bad about not having more frequent posts, but Alex talked me out of it. It's nice to be supported by someone who truly wants nothing more than for you to succeed. Shortly after, I received a text from my friend Chris Vongsawat, who I worked alongside with Alee Rose this past summer. He came along during my first time modeling for Alee and took us to Chinatown, where we stumbled upon this crazy bright alleyway. We found this bright red door against these metallic silver walls and it just went so perfectly with my hologram platforms, so we couldn't resist.

This was my first time modeling, and so I was extremely nervous and awkward. It didn't really help that some workers on their break were also in the alley, smoking and watching me. I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing and I had a lot of direction from Alee at first, but the whole "pretty/sexy model" thing really just wasn't working out. I felt a little defeated and flopped myself over out of frustration when Chris decided to go in a different direction for this shoot. I remember him saying, "Don't do sexy. Do weird." and that, well... that was something I definitely knew how to do.

I remembered from taking modern dance classes in high school that my shoulders were really strange and disgustingly flexible, so I decided to tug at them in order to contort them in such a way that mimicked creature-like movement. I kept getting good feedback, and then Alee would direct me as far as facial expressions and what else to do besides just the really creepy stuff. When Chris played back some of the shots he got, the three of us were speechless. 

This is, as Chris put it, definitely on the weirder side of shit. Enjoy!

"Girl Shapes" a mini fashion film by Chris Vongsawat
Artistic direction by Alee Rose
Modeling by Danielle Castano

GET THE LOOK

Top: Tobi

Shorts: American Apparel

Shoes: Public Desire

Necklace: H&M

I'll be back again to blog soon... XOXO