It’s fair to say that Vivienne Mok has romantic imagery down to a fine art. Femininity and romance are in more than just the models: the way a dress falls, the way the light shines through a window illuminating all it touches, the way a girl poses with her knees clutched to her chest in a visual display of vulnerability. We’ve seen those things and…

Growing up I had a flower press made from wood and lasagne-like layers of green cardboard and waxed paper. Week by week, as the fresh colourful buds inside got flatter, you’d tighten the butterfly screws – one at each corner – and then leave time to do its work. The results were gardens of disconnected stems that you’d gently pry free with tweezers, paper thin,…

Vivienne Mok‘s work is always pretty, always feminine; filled as they are with those objects of girlish fancy like tulle and chiffon, lace and roses. This is where it crosses over into the sensual, the sheer fabric exposing bare skin, the natural beauty of bed hair and no makeup.

There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in. In a literal sense, Vivienne Mok lets the light into everything. Nothing is perfect, but when the light shines through it, it’s certainly more beautiful. Skylights pour rays of sun into the space of grand old rooms. Gauzy chiffon and lace let light in through every porous inch, creating silhouettes of human…

Vivienne Mok‘s butter-soft aesthetic and bridal whites are two things that go perfectly hand in hand. As with all of Mok’s work, though, this isn’t the Bride in all her pampered, glossy glory. She’s enveloped in a dreamy haze of light, and as the shoot wears on her high necks and long trains shorten, her layers of lace are peeled away, her tightly braided hair…

Speaking of long-lost shoots, a la Hannah Glasby by Antony Nobilo and Miranda Kerr by Laurent Darmon… here’s one from the (figurative) dusty shoebox of Dennis Veldman. Veldman took the shots of model Charlotte in the earlier days of her modelling career. Eva Koegenboeg styled the shoot with a mix of vintage and modern pieces – a disco-ball silver skirt and sheer blouse, a flapper-esque…

I can’t count the number of times I’ve used the word ‘auteur’ with reference to Vivienne Mok; and it still holds true with each shoot of hers we encounter. The fact is that Mok’s shoots, in all their thematic and aesthetic cohesion, tend to fall into two categories: the soft, sweet, and innocent, or the sensual and deeply erotic. But for Mok the line between…

When you’re a little girl, no dream is unachievable, everyone can be a princess and it only takes a little bit of glitter to make you smile. Much the same can be said when looking upon Vivienne Mok’s work; her multitalented self always brings dreamy, fairy tale-like photoshoots to reality. For instance, her spread in the 3rd issue of Dew Magazine features the model Nea;…

A unity of vision. A distinctive style, recurrent aesthetic, returning themes. If the word auteur can apply equally to photographers as to filmmakers, Vivienne Mok would hold the title. Shooting up-and-coming model Gorana for Fashionising.com, Mok brings her remarkable soft and sensual style of photography back again in a daydream of hazy light, silk and sunday pleats. As is often the case with Mok’s shoots,…

Last we interviewed Vivienne Mok she told us she would describer her work as ‘sensual’, not necessarily ‘erotic’. Not that she has anything against the latter term – it’s just not a conscious effort to create something that fits within it. Whether or not this series for LoveSexDance magazine could be boxed up and shipped off with that label is a subjective question, but one…