Catou Couture in Trying Times

I have recently started taking resumes for an additional designer. While I am looking for someone with a few years of experience in the field of interior design, my mailbox continues to be bombarded with new graduates in search of a lucky break. I know that when I graduated in 2001, job openings felt limited. Now with gratuitous layoffs in the field of architecture and design, competition for jobs is even steeper. I told my good friend Polina Osherov that I wanted our next shoot to be based on the idea of an opportunity drought in our "The sky is the limit" world. As our plucky young model was transformed into distraught lonely model I thought to myself, I should probably be thinking of brighter, happier imagery but a girl can only shut out so much...

To see more of these images, visit my website. Thank you to our very cold model, Amy Hopper; our makeup artist, Beth Jerrels; clothing designer Bernie Martin of Catou Couture and of course Vladamir Osherov.

The Secret Museum and cute girls

Before the weekend gets underway, I wanted to alert everyone of a new collection of photos that I just added to the website under the Art Direction tab. A few weeks ago Polina and I did a photo shoot for Handbag Heaven, an online handbag store located in Greenwood. When I found out Kipp Normand was putting together a “Secret Museum” of salvaged goodies I knew it would be the perfect locations to shoot. Kudos to all involved. This may be my favorite shoot to date! And a special thanks to everyone at SEND for allowing us to turn their lobby into a full service salon for an entire afternoon!

Kipp prepares for the opening

Polina scouting