Stevie Dance and Maya Villiger at the RUSSH blog
It's hard to find peace and tranquility during fashion month. The stress of working to hourly deadlines, the forgetting to tweet, take the lens cap off, jot down important notes, record interviews, remember tickets, wear the right shoes, brush your hair, have your press pass.. The whole thing is a bloody nightmare. And imagine having to do it four times over, not just in New York, but after a gruelling trans-atlantic flight in economy (or sardine class, as my mum likes to call it) again in London, then in Milan, and then Paris. You'd need a holiday - a long one - plus a massage, and a really big meal (because trust me, there's barely time to drink let alone eat during fashion week) and a sleep that lasts for fourteen hours. The stress is enormous. If the whole thing wasn't so bloody fabulous it would be impossible to bear.
That's why it is so exciting to see pictures like these. Taken by Stevie Dance and Maya Villiger for the RUSSH blogs, these photos capture something of the quiet, still moments amongst all the stress. Blinding lights, cups of coffee, gap-toothed models in all their innocent beauty. You can see the beauty in upturned collars, in teased hair, in searching for your seat, in pots of empty make up - the mundane, trivial, not important things - but the things that puncture the frenetic, frazzled mess that is fashion month and make you think, ah! it's all worth it, somehow. That amongst all that energy and buzz and tantrums and excitement there is the possibility to capture a moment so tranquil it seems like it has come from meditation not behind the scenes of a runway show. Even more than style.com's clinical runway shots or the formulaic street style, these are my favourite fashion month images.
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