Lola Van Vorst doesn’t just model, she gets into character. Revelling in the eccentricity of one who dresses glamourously even at home, she becomes, in Jason Ierace‘s latest shoot, a luxury queen. In candy-coloured lingerie pieces by Australian label Ms Couture, we’re reminded that luxury begins close to the skin and doesn’t stop when you kick your shoes off as you walk in the front…

A video always adds something to a shoot: movements, flickers of emotion that the still frames might not catch – or that the photographer might choose to leave out. In the film accompanyment to James Broadhurst’s shoot of Lola Van Vorst, Lola pouts, poses and smokes her way through a few minutes of captivating footage as filmed by Erin Collette.

Lola Van Vorst‘s look enthrals photographers like a siren’s song enthrals a sailor. Her features imply a strength that’s somehow laced with vulnerability; a femininity hardened by tough independence. That look is what lured James Broadhurst into the deep. “In my mind I was striving for a balance between Marylin Monroe and Bettie Page,” says James of his shoot with the model. To that end,…

What many fail to do in a full ten minutes, Henryk Lobaczewski does in under 30 seconds. And that is to captivate, to visually intrigue, to fill a screen with a convincing dose of raw sensuality. Like the full photoshoot of models Milli and Lola van Vorst this short but oh so effective film is erotic androgyny at its best.

What is it about androgyny that so intrigues? It’s been a fascination in the fashion world for some time: girls who look like boys, boys who could be girls. Henryk Lobaczewski plays to that fascination in his latest shoot, titled simply WOMAN, deliberately casting model Lola van Vorst of Australia’s Next Top Model fame for her high cheekbones and strong features. If, as the two…