Notrelle 'Body' Music Video...

Here is the first batch of 'behind the scenes' shots from another music video I styled recently. The video is for an artist called Notrelle, a brilliant producer who is releasing stuff with his own vocals too now. He was lovely to work with, dressing these urban boys can be a battle of wills sometimes but we were all agreed he looked like a star...

Jacket and shirt: Addict 

Sunglasses: Rayban

Cropped Trench: Topman

Notrelle and our talented director Ore

More coming soon, including some snaps of  my other styling project that day, our beautiful model...

We like to party...

Well she's done it again! Beyonce refuses to miss a trend, the sound du jour right now is that nostalgic 80's soul and she's nailed it with this track. Love the story and styling of this video, the outfits seem to get better as the video progresses and it has made me wonder if I will ever grow out of loving crazy coloured fur, or regarding knickers as acceptable lower half attire on their own, I doubt it and if I'm honest that's the kind of growing up I'd rather pass on. The one thing I think may be missing from this video is the fabulous Andre 3000, he's a bit like this generation's Prince so a shame not to see him but the cameos from Solange Knowles (hot girl dj) and the girl-of-the-moment Kelly Rowland at the end do make up for it.

Luke Bingham: Nothing to lose ....

Very early this summer (around about the freak heatwave in May) I was called upon to dress a beautiful model in a beautiful video. The beautiful model just happened to look exactly like Mischa Barton as you'll see, and she boosted her sexiness by chattering away on her phone in various languages, nothing hotter than switching beween languages with lovely lilting accents whilst having looks like that.

It was a long bloomin' day, as music videos tend to be, fun though. There are a few nailbiting moments in a day in the life of a stylist however, example: Luke's stylist frantic with worry and weilding a lint roller when Luke entered the wardrobe nightmare that is a rapeseed field when dressed head to toe in black. The only side effect to this being a minor O.C.D attachment to the lint roller. Meanwhile I was fighting my own personal war with boob tape. It's a tough job but we persevere.

Keep an eye out for Mr Bingham in the future, he was doing a lot with Radio 1 over the summer and a stint touring with Trey Songz, definately one to watch.
Behind the scenes shots to follow...

Wretch 32 music video shoot (part 2)

Glad I stumbled accross these today! Here are more of the behind the scenes shots of the styling on the Wretch 32 music video for 'Traktor' that never quite made it onto the blog, but I think they definitely deserve a veiwing... 

This was such an amazing transformation, can you believe this dancer has a huge afro under that wig?! 

The make up artist scored top points on both of the girls that day.

Easy, Please Me....

Ridiculously hot extra in the fantastic vintage suede jodhpurs, I've waited for ever to use these in a shoot! Earrings vintage too, both Hepwrights.

The much fussed over alphabet jacket, teamed with the much lusted after 'V' blouse and jewellery, all vintage, all Hepwrights. 

Nice bit of boy-chic. 

My 90's raver jacket (current favourite) and my embellished shorts (trusty old favourite), always a bit weird dressing models/actors in your own clothes! The distressed black and white tee is by Urban Outfitters. The girl in the jacket also had extremely impressive and unusual tattoos which you can just see bits of in this shot.

Katy showing the boys who's boss on the pool table.

Little job from last year

In November last year I worked on the Wretch 32 music video for 'Traktor'. I was working with the fantastic stylist Georgia Broaders and it was quite a day, it's shot in a car park that is 13 stories underground near Barbican in London, which got quite claustrophobic when you started to dwell on how far away the surface was! I was quite impressed with how much the crew were allowed to do with the space as well, painting the walls and graffiti etc. Everyone there on the day was brilliant (including the owl!) and I'm really pleased it's done so well. I've got tons of behind-the-scenes shots to share with you that I will post shortly.