Staff’s freaked because this post has a Friday “F is for” headline and it’s Wednesday. She knew I was waiting for a related link to go live before publishing, but still she’s all jangly about it. She amuses me.
Anyway, I had some digi-camera fun last week, thanks to a Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR model I was trying out. My first play session was Monday’s Philippe Dubuc campaign shoot on board the docked 730-foot Gordon C. Leitch freighter in Old Montreal’s quai Alexandria. And the above photo of Jesse, Taras and Shawn, the three Elmer Olsen models in Dubuc’s fall/winter 2010 campaign, is my favourite. I thank the nifty Intelligent Face Detection feature, which zeroed in on the key part of what I’d framed in the lens before I depresed the shutter key. (“Depressed” is a funny word here, because I’m pretty sure I heard the camera shout “YAY!” when I snapped this shot.) Here’s the before-crop, with photographer Martin Rondeau.
More fun photos, including one with makeup and hair artist Marco Marsolais, whom I’d met years ago when I was at Canadian Living. He and I had a great chat about the manly hair and makeup for Dubuc’s campaign — read about it here on ElleCanada.com. Ordinarily I’d crop in closer, but I like that in the background you can see the designer being interviewed by a journalist, as well as a camera crew filming the shoot.
Oh, did I forget to tell you how we got onto the freighter? The ladies were warned not to wear heels.
Yes, this is a shot of a wee bottles of iced cider, offered as refreshment for the Dubuc event. I don’t really drink, nor do I particularly like much wine, but I love this ice-wine-type stuff. Nectar. I had only one, though, and took ages to drink it because I kept stopping to take pictures — I blame Fujifilm.
Another highlight was later catching a collaborative session backstage between designer Judith Desjardin and Denis Binet, Creative Director of Hair for Montreal Fashion Week and Consulting Stylist for Pantene. Desjardin had brought in some wings crafted from real feathers in the hopes of adding them to her J.U.D.E. runway show, part of a tribute to Alexander McQueen.
Once I got the snap-timing right, I managed to get a few decent runway shots, including one the next evening from J.U.D.E featuring the wing hair accessory. The camera has an auto-adjust function for different lighting situations, and I think a shutter-speed thing I have yet to figure out, but this is still better than my old camera could have done.
Of course my fave shot of the week is the first in this post. It’s actually mollified the Staff some — she says it almost makes up for the Friday/Wednesday thing. HAH. She’s easy, that’s what.
Visit ElleCanada.com for a BeautyGeeks take on Philippe Dubuc’s Fall ad campaign. Visit Fujifilm.ca for more on the FinePix F70 EXR.
Even now, into the second week of March and after a day of 13-degree-celcius pleasantry in Toronto, I’m a tad wary of making a Spring-is-here declaration. (I remember snow and hail in late April of the year we moved to Canada.) Perhaps it’s safer to say that if not now, soon? Either way, it’s a good time to buff away the last dry flakies and hydrate skin in prep for a warm-weather reveal.
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Despite what bronzaholic-commentator-designer Randolph Duke had to say about Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock’s choice of bright pink-red lipstick with her pale metallic Marchesa gown, [geek on]
Peter Philips, Global Creative Director of CHANEL Makeup, has made a bold move. “I would like to seduce women back into using lipstick again,” he says in the first video below. And to do it, he’s replaced the brand’s Rouge Hydrabase lipstick with Rouge Coco ($38), a new long-lasting moisturizing formula in a range of pretty hues and a luxe case made of lightweight metal rather than plastic. [geek on]
Staff felt I needed to give you a heads-up about the publishing delay in today’s “F is for…” post, mostly because it gets her goat when I do a Friday F-is-for post on a Monday. For some reason announcing the intention will make her feel better. Me, I’m going along with the idea because it floats my goat to do a “Failure to Launch” post when the original — watch for it on Monday — features a ship.
It’s nice when a solution meets everyone’s needs, isn’t it?
Is it wrong that my favourite part of this Montreal Fashion Week F/W 2010 is my beautiful new Charlotte Hosten necklace? Mine is the same style as these two above, part of the jewelry designer’s permanent prêt-a-porter collection, and it means I can now stock my wardrobe with [geek on]
“The inspiration came from a Lady GaGa picture,” said Catherine Laniel, Creative Director of Makeup for Montreal Fashion Week in Collaboration with P&G Beauty, about last evening’s beauty look for vampy-sweet line Coccolily. “Eyes were very two-tone — white, black, very simple, and very precise.” In fact, that GaGa Flare cover served as reference on the beauty boards (see below). [geek on]
Last night’s Marie Saint Pierre beauty at Montreal Fashion Week F/W 2010 was about ice and shine. Denis Binet, Creative Director of Hair for Montreal Fashion Week and Consulting Stylist for Pantene, played off the soft-yet-structured lines of the collection (which he called “a step before haute couture”), and drew inspiration from the serpentine coils of a nude fabric neck accessory. [geek on]
