HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders Continued...

As I mentioned in my previous post I shot the HOM SS14 show at London Collections: Men from the official photographers pit. 

I could hear hearts flutter as the nearly naked men swept the runway sporting and array of sleek underwear and stylish swimwear. Although a brief show (see what I did there), it was a brilliant! I thoroughly enjoy the fast past pace of the runway, whilst obviously this show had its perks. 

Here are some of the images I captured that night, enjoy! 

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders

I have been so busy recently! From interning to a mini get away and interning again, I have not had a moment free; if I have had a spare day I've been working, catching up on sleep, eating properly,  washing and cleaning etc (the usual boring stuff). 

I have been interning with photographer Timur Celikdag and have had the most amazing experience. As well as being the nicest/coolest man, he actually wanted me to learn and I am so grateful for what he taught me. I got the chance to assist on a Mr Porter shoot and two McQ lookbooks whilst with him. 

In-between all this excitement I managed to go away for a week with a small group of friends to Newquay, and we somehow magically went during the one week of summer England actually got. Not a drop of rain with barely a cloud in the sky, I actually achieved a tan!

But, what I really wanted to share was what I got up to last night. I came by the chance to shoot HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders at LC:M. I am going to be honestly truthful, a lot of my pictures came out blurry. I set the aperture too wide and didn't realised I had accidentally done this until after the show was over. It all went so fast that I just didn't realise, or have the time to check once the show had started. Luckily not all the shots I gained were blurry and I've still got loads I can use; so, all was not lost! You learn from your mistakes right? And, I am definitely still learning and I will not do that again! Here are just a few for now, when I get home to Portsmouth I will go through them again and post more.

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

Mary Katrantzou...

Following on from the previous post 'Mary Katrantzou S/S12 & A/W12' here are a selection of my favourite designs and images I got the opportunity of capturing on the runway from Mark K's previous two collections:

There were so many amazing images and designs that I found it extremely hard to narrow it down to these select few. Maybe in another post I'll upload some more but for now here are just a few. Obviously all are incredible but I love the two floaty dresses (3rd & 4th row) they just photographed beautifully and glided down the runway.

Jessica x 

Photography: Jessica Gates

Mary Katrantzou S/S12 & A/W12

As we all know, today marks the start of LFW. Whilst wishing (no... praying) I was able to be there, I am still buzzing from the brilliant opportunity I gained on the eve of the biggest event in the fashion calendar! Sponsors of LFW, Vodaphone invited over 1000 customers into the official BFC show-space to an exclusive private view of Mary Katrantzou's amazing creations. The catwalk show was spilt in two with backstage hair/makeup and a video message from the lovely Mary herself which separated her S/S 12 and A/W 12 collections. 

I managed to come by the chance of photographing the show from the official photographers pit. Apart from being in the audience at London Fashion Weekend I have never documented a catwalk. So, this was evidently going to be a little daunting for my first experiment with runway photography. And it was, but as soon as I was looking down the lens at all the beautiful pieces from such an iconic designer and one of my favourites, I was completely in the moment! And believe me... It was incredible - I enjoyed every second, every step taken and every click of the shutter. 

I haven't had a chance to edit down the hundreds of pictures I managed to capture so here is a couple of shots of the army of models as a preview:

A sea of red soles:

More to follow soon!

Jessica x

Images: Jessica Gates