Posts Tagged fashion
fashion designer thuy diep
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on September 28, 2010
thuy (pronounced “twee”) was born into a family in vietnam who ran a custom-made clothing shop and a tailoring school. she learned the ropes of tailoring as a kid and soon developed a love for fashion. now, in america, she continues the family tradition of finely-crafted clothes and expresses her love of fashion through her label “Thuy.” i recently shot thuy for the fall issue of YRB magazine and here are some of my favorite outtakes.
slowtography
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on August 14, 2010
the day before we were supposed to shoot, i got an email from tabitha saying that she had just gotten out of the hospital from some kind of bug or virus or whatever. she was all kinds of messed up for like over a week, but she was still on board so we made it happen – except we took things nice and slow and kept her topped up with some un-nauseating goldfish crackers to keep her from passing out. we had a long day, but she stuck it out.
model tabitha constance
hair/makeup/wardrobe by the very talented shelly van gage
arizona
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on May 20, 2010
if you’ve never been to the desert before, i have three words for you: PRICKLY – PEAR – CACTUS. it was pretty obvious that neither me or my assistant had ever spent much time in desert-like conditions because within 30 seconds of getting to our location, we were covered with cactus needles. big ones, small ones, heat-seeking ones… holy moly. the first one to REALLY get me was mr. prickly pear himself. i felt a nice jab in my ankle and i looked down to see a happy little ball of death spikes hanging from my leg. when i tried to pull it out, i got stabbed about 27 times in my fingers. i walked around to find a pair of gloves and it just dangled from my ankle like some gothic christmas tree ornament. when i got the gloves i tried to pull it slowly, but it just pulled my skin with it (like if you pinch your skin with your fingers and pull it). so i snatched it out real quick-like, and the cute mace-like ball was replaced with a dull burning sensation pretty much all day. that was the first round in a long, heated fight with the desert landscape. later i was shooting and my assistant yelled “yowwwwwwww!!” i looked over at him and he said with big eyes, “man, i just bent down and sat on a cactus.”
models: rachel and ariel from S.I.M.
hair: kelly marie from S.I.M.
makeup: samantha from S.I.M.
Nicole LeBris
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on April 26, 2010
sometimes you’ll see someone who’s not a model on a set and you’re like, ” dude, why aren’t THEY in front of the camera?” that’s pretty much how nicole got her start. she was a makeup artist/hair stylist and eventually somebody told her she was on the wrong end of the camera. good thing, too – cause she’s pretty awesome at modeling.
check out more shots of her on her site HERE
ain’t that a drag
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on February 23, 2010
turns out that one of my favorite makeup artist guys is also a girl – well, sorta – he’s a drag queen. and not only is he a drag queen, but he’s a drag mother with a family of protege drag queens to whom he teaches the ways of femininity and how to be excessively fabulous. he called me up and asked me if i’d take a few shots of his drag family, so i was like, “sure, bring em over to my apartment and i’ll help you out” and figured i’d bang out a quick little shoot and call it good. they showed up and started to get ready – they were in that room for FOUR hours. holy schmoly. no detail was spared. when jezzeniah and her crew came strutting out in a cloud of hairspray, glitter, skin bronzer and sequins, the fabulousness was excessive and the femininity was flowing in true-drag style, complete with angry complaints about the heels – enough to make a drag mama proud.
shower soiree
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on January 29, 2010
my makeup artist friend damion wanted to shoot some beauty with one of his male model friends named george, so i was down. last minute he was like, “i think i have a female model coming too. we’ll have them do some doubles.” i was like, “ok, cool. what are we doing for wardrobe?” and he was all, “i think we’re just going to throw them in the tub.” so that was that. BUT, as models are want to do for tests, the female model bailed. i called a model friend of mine and was like, “hey christine, so what are you doing like – right now?” turned out she was down to shoot, so she rolled out and completely crushed it. thanks, christine.
nicole briola
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on January 4, 2010
katherine villari – hotter than miami
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on December 7, 2009
sometimes i talk to myself while i’m shooting. like, i’ll mumble stuff about my camera settings and whatever. but not only is katherine an amazing model, she’s also handy with the camera and knew exactly what i was mumbling about, so i had to be on my toes not to mumble too much – or if i did, i had to make sure it wasn’t anything dumb. she totally killed it – and then after our shoot, she broke out her cammy and made me model for her. that was a first. check out my debut below. you can see more pictures of katherine, her photography and her writings on her website at iheartkat.com.
- this is the polaroid from katherine’s shoot. i ended up taking my hair down and putting on her bathing suit.
krissy drier
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion, fitness/sports on November 26, 2009
this is my second time shooting with krissy. check out the first shoot HERE. she wanted a couple new shots for her book, and i wanted a shot for my fitness book, so we made it happen.
makeup by marshana

i think the running shot came out superbad. it was so cold i had to wrap krissy up in one of my big puffy jackets in between sets.
- i think the running shot came out superbad. it was so cold i had to wrap krissy up in one of my big puffy jackets in between sets.
- the ghost of inwood hill