Written by Tania Braukämper on 26 Mar 2013
It’s a little unnerving – albeit in the best possible way – when you’re looking at a photo of a model on your screen and she suddenly turns her head to look right at you. Mike Lewis’ series of animated cinemagraphs incorporates movement where usually an image would be still: hair blows in an invisible breeze, skirt hems billow, in shot one the model walks…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 27 Oct 2012
The season’s Gothic revival isn’t necessarily about black. It’s a look; a mood. And Mike Lewis’ shoot Stone Angel has it by the bucket loads. Model Sam Ypma takes on the qualities of the animals she befriends: ice-blue eyes piercing through snow white skin and hair, feline eye makeup and blood-red lips. The mood permeates everything in Nadia Pizzimenti’s styling be it a combination of…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 24 Jul 2012
A shoot titled All The Wild Things is bound to have some primal influence; you might imagine heat and stone and pelts across the body a la Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. But there are many ways to interpret a thing of the wilderness. The world of photographer Mike Lewis‘ shoot is wrapped in a thick mist that looks cold, if not icy;…
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 25 Nov 2011
That much of 2012′s fashion will be influenced by a revival of 1920s fashion elements is no secret. What remains to be firmly understood is how we, as both consumers and influencers of fashion, will choose to wear and interpret the revival. The main conundrum here is that it’s only been a few short years since elements of ’20s fashion, namely flapper motifs, were in style…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 8 Jul 2011
Playing on photographer Mike Lewis’ stereo during this shoot was an upbeat mix of George Michael, Diana Ross, Serge Gainsbourg, Madonna, Brigitte Bardot, Sonny and Cher, and Morrissey. With only a little bit of squashing and shoving you can quite easily fit those performers into two eras: the ’70s, and the ’90s. And as those eras decided what notes poured through the speakers, so did…