Released Youth
2018                
‘Released Youth’ is a  fashion portraits of ‘volunteer’ older models that show age is but a number. This project was born from the meeting between me and Korean art director Min Seon Kim capture the fashionable and quirky qualities of six older women, volunteering to pose for the camera in a Parisian park. We experimented with the idea of playing with each different woman, styling them for clothes, makeup and hair, and we focused on their different characters and life stories. In details, especially for women, senility is a melancholic phase of life, made sadder because of a society imposing us to always appear young. It is a phase of life composed of the awareness of what people can not do anymore, during which time passes slowly, too slowly, approaching the future without a destination.We wanted to give the opportunity to have fun, to feel beautiful, loved and desired.They told us before leaving the shoot “Vous avez fait ma journée normale différente”. Which translates as: “you made my normal day different.” These spontaneous, chance encounters took place during a sunny day at Buttes Chaumont, where the pair approached these women individually, asking if they wanted to be photographed and styled by her team.
Makeup: Yoyo. Hairdresser: Waka Adachi. Set designer: Clément Pelisson. Videographer: Nadia Mob. Assistants: Thomas Vilaca and Paula Coderch Blasco.