Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Dedicated Original: Sway Chic Sneak Peek!

The sheer amount of pictures I have of Miss Bethany Struble on this blog must have y'all thinking Dedicated has a new author. Nope, just a favourite model, or muse if you will.

I had the pleasure of shooting Bethany again today for the Sway Chic website and the above is a little sneak peek. That's one of 1400 pictures I shot today. Needless to say - I'm a wee bit tired!

The photo's will appear on the Sway Chic site soon (along with a redesign!) - I'll let you know when they're up and share some more pics!

Kelsi x

Dedicated Original: Shine a Light/London Calling

Back in November I shot an editorial for L.A Centric magazine, a new magazine in Los Angeles, of which I am Fashion Editor. Things have been a bit slow going in terms of publishing and it's all been a bit silent from the publishers end (sob sob).

These pictures weren't just shot to look pretty but to promote the four designers pre-selected to go to London as part of the Los Angeles Fashion Council's London Calling program. So, whilst I hope they eventually make it to print, it's currently out of my hands, and I really want to share them, and all the hard work that went into creating them!

The hair was all expertly created by the team at Works of Art in Los Feliz, Art Cardiel himself and Emily and Destiny - two of the fabulous stylists there. Make-up was by the wonderful Eugene Conde and the looks were modeled by Bethany Struble and Latara Gator. Styling was by the individual designers and photography was by me!

The first image features designs by Curly V, the second, Alana Hale, the third, Mila Hermanovski and the last Bryan Hearns.

If you love these designers as much as I do, and want to support their quest to go to London for our London Calling show - please show them by pledging to our Kickstarter program. No amount is too small. In fact is every single on of my readers donated a single dollar, we'd meet our target. If you donate anything over $25 there are goodies to take home, from sketches, to jewelry, to full blown garments!

So please support our designers!

Kelsi x

Happy New Year - Some Inspiration from Me to You

Happy New Year! Whilst most are out drinking the night away, I'm at home blogging. It's actually where I'd rather be. We've gotten hold of some British comedy gold and some champagne and we'll be remaining on the couch. I've never been one for news years eve parties, I'm a bit of a new years scrooge. I spent the better part of my teens and twenties working in bars and restuarants where I'd recieve double pay for working, so I'd always rather do that than spend double drinking, and the habit stuck. Start as you mean to go on I guess!

So here I am, I'll work, watch TV, and make sure to let the new year in the front door and send the old one out the back and sing along to Auld Lang Syne on the telly. A timeless tradition.

2011 was a good year for me. It treated me well and has left me really looking forward to 2012, in which I'm only hoping (and working for) bigger and better things.

I'm going to be posting various resolutions, however vague, on the old tumblr throughout New Years Day, so stay tuned. In the meantime, I created these three posters for you featuring some of my favourite quotes (The first is Tolkien, the second Edna St Vincent Millay and the third, the ever wise, anon) The one's above are 1000 pixels wide and suitable for web use only but if you click on the links below they'll take you to big, fat printable files, if you should desire to print ;)

Click to download large "Not all who wander" print.

Click to download large "I burn my candle" print.

Click to download large "Plans" print.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Kelsi x

 

Dedicated Original: Josie Smith x Hope Cove

When I was back home in the UK my sister and I took the time to put together a mini photoshoot - she's a singer (an uber talented, soon to be famous one) and promotional images are always useful - plus she had these fancy new shoes courtesy of Seychelles to show off.

We were in Hope Cove, a place we've been visiting since we were tots - and we were there for my Grandma's birthday. Hope Cove is a teeny tiny village complete with a cove and thatched cottages. It's the epitome of picturesque. Unfortunately for us it happened to be raining, but that doesn't stop a Smith girl from stripping down and posing on the sand in heels ;)

Of course it's taken a million months to actually edit them but now they're here - I've been experimenting with photo layering recently, the first photo is  a heavy handed example of this - but kind of fun - I did something similar when I was studying photography, but that was pre-digital days and there were projectors involved!

Anyhoo, here are the rest of the images, Josie is wearing: Pink Dress: Miss Selfridges, Striped Dress: All Saints, Shoes: Courtesy of Seychelles.

Kelsi x

Dedicated Original: Treacherous Minx New Collection

In the past couple of weeks I've been able to go back to my blogging roots a little and produce some original fashion photography - starting with the L.A Centric shoot (release date January 1st) and then followed by a quickie of a shoot (literally - we were rapidly losing light!) for my dear friend Yvonne's t-shirt line, Treacherous Minx.

Modeled by the ever fab Bethany Struble the newest collection is called Intuition, and the designs are based off of vintage pantyhose advertisements. The result is a fun and feminine collection that is occasionally creepy. Yes that's a snuggie. And yes, I own one. It's amazing and retails at $38 in her Etsy store - the t-shirts are all $20.

Below are some of my other favourites from the shoot!

Shop here.

Kelsi xx