Oct 22, 2014

Horror Couture

A fashion shoot inspired by our favourite vintage Horror flicks....

Carla Molina King| Fashion Editor

For this fashion shoot we took inspiration from our favourite Horror films and TV Shows. From American Horror Story: Coven, The Addams Family and Hitchcock’s The Birds to the 80’s cult classic, Carnival Magic. Using a mix of vintage pieces and high street gems (that you can still get your hands on!) we pay tribute to these films and more importantly to their amazing costume designers – particularly Edith Head and Lou Eyrich who seamlessly turn our screens into a wearable runway. I hope you enjoy pouring over these whimsical photos as much as we did bringing them to you!

“All that power . . . I just took it, poured it back into myself, and dressed it up in Chanel.”

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– American Horror Story; Coven

 ‘Fashion is not about buying a second skin.

Fashion is about having a fantasy’.

– Alber Elbaz

 “What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he’s become a different person.”

– Edith Head, Hitchcock’s costume designer for’The Birds

‘Black is such a happy colour’

– Morticia Addams from The Addams Family.

 

 

The Addams Family

Stylist Fionnula Egan

Models: Alona Matvejeva and Alisa Snow

Clothes: Stylists Own

American Horror Story; Coven

Stylist: Carla King-Molina

Models: Claudia Kinahan and Heather Moore

Clothes: Claudia, Bralet-Topshop Choker-Topshop , Skirt and jacket Stylists own.

Heather:Shirt-Topshop Skirt – Stylists own.

 Carnival Magic

Stylist: Ciara Kummert

Models: Becky Gygax and Bose Allen

Clothes: Carmel Conerney.

(For enquiries contact, [email protected])

Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’

Stylists: Emily Waters and Laura Mulcair

Models: Clementine Yost and Ciara McEvoy

Clothes:Clementine, Dress,Gloves and Bag, Penneys all else stylists own.

Ciara: All Vintage.

Lead  photographer: Grace Nuttall

Make-Up by Megan Oliver

Hair by Eimear Quaid

Special thanks to our videographer Lisa Nally and also to Courtney Brennan.

 

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