Love Bomb 2013: Love Letters

February 13, 2013 in Photography, Playful Promises

You may remember last year I shot this campaign for the first Independent Lingerie Brands Love Bomb. Well, we did it again, on a slightly smaller scale (with 8 brands rather than 10) but with just as awesome prizes.

I shot the images a few weeks ago, which have now all been released. You have until tomorrow to enter to win each prize from each brand, so make sure you take a look at how to enter here!

Model is Miss Miranda

Fabulous hats are by Lily Lewis

Hat by Lily Lewis, Bra and brief by Playful Promises, Waspie by Velda Lauder, Suspender belt by Kiss Me Deadly.

Hat by Lily Lewis, Lingerie by Fraulein Annie

Bra and brief by Kriss Soonik, Waspie by Playful Promises, Suspender belt by Kiss Me Deadly

Gown by Ayten Gasson

Bra and brief by Miss Mandalay, Girdle by Kiss Me Deadly

Hat by Lily Lewis, swimsuit by Paolita

What do you think?

Playful Promises SS13: Paradise

December 24, 2012 in Photography, Playful Promises

2 more sets of images have been released from Playful Promises, which I shot back in the Summer!

Better yet, all of these items are available now (just click through to go to the PP website).

Model: Miss Miranda

MUA: Cheyenne Raymond

We also shot the swimwear in our studio.

Model: Hayley @ IMM

MUA: Cheyenne Raymond

Hair stylist: Ceri Cushen

Playful Promises Design Competition Results

December 06, 2012 in Photography, Playful Promises

One of the things I love about my job is being able to watch lingerie being created.... from initial sketchy design through to CAD, to first sample through to final piece! Then I get the joy of photographing them!

In December last year, Playful Promises had run a design competition which would allow one budding lingerie designer the chance to see their design created (a pretty awesome thing to put on their CV!). After a facebook vote, Emma, the brand director still had a tough choice narrowing down to just one design. So she thought, fuck it, let's do three of them.

You can take a look at the final CADs here, and how they work so well as a mini-collection!

Last week, when shooting the PP AW13 collection we took an hour out to quickly shoot these with Miss Miranda.

I'm pretty chuffed with these photos too! What do you think?

Here Kitty Kitty: Halloween!

October 10, 2012 in Photography, Playful Promises

I like to take the excuse to do something creative, and luckily my day-job allows me just that!

While I am a strong believer in dressing up whenever you like, Halloween seems to be the only time that it's internationally accepted. So, I decided to shoot some fun, slightly darker images for Playful Promises lingerie. As our lookbooks have to be quite commercial to appeal to a range of customers and stockists, it's fun to occasionally do some messier shots!

I booked the beautiful Anita de Bauch (and her kitty Dexter!) for this sex kitten style shoot. I'd been wanting to work for her for a while as she has such a classic look, but it was actually a welcome surprise how photogenic she is. It's hard to explain, but some people need more post production work than others (not to alter their face, but to ensure the light and angles are flattering - I tend to need quite a lot to look like I do when I look in the mirror!), but Anita was just amazing in front of the camera (as is Miss Miranda, hence why I like working with her so much).

Regal Rumble: Recreating monarchs for Playful Promises

August 14, 2012 in Photography, Playful Promises, Published work

Issue 7 of Playful Promises' Online Magazine is finally finished!

Featuring an article about sportswomen, a makeup tutorial, the chance to win a gorgeous corset and an interview with the Playful Promises founder and designer, I hope you will find something to take your fancy! If that's not all, check out the brand new photos I took for the mag: