Lingerie, blindfolds, masks and tuxedo jackets. If the grand setting of winding staircases, opulent tiling and pillared halls doesn’t send your mind careening back to Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, the perhaps the styling by Andrew Zumbo will. It does for me, anyway. There’s a subtle fetishism to Mariah Jelena’s shoot, titled Invitation Only. Twin models Maddie and Thierney are mirror images of each other which adds a lightly surreal twist to the scenario; and you’re given the feeling that this invitation-only party is one populated by uniform sensual blondes, there to be seen not heard.
Mariah Jelena’s work never fails to reach out and grab you. If you’re not already a follower of her tumblr, I’ve two words for you. Go subscribe.
For the rest of Invitation Only, click on the gallery above.
