I have been spending some time in my archive the past week and I stumbled upon this summer weekend when we were shooting on location in Montauk, the furthest point of Long Island. All of a sudden I could feel the sand in my tennis shoes, smell the salt in the air, and taste the lobster rolls from shacks we stopped at along the road. It is just about that season again…to hop in the car and head east, finding endless sunshine days and kissing goodnight summer sunsets again at the Surf Lodge.
He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about… like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Above & below: vintage hat, Rebekah Price necklace, Carolina Herrera top & ball skirt, Stuart Weitzman shoes
Above: Victor Osborne hat, Tiffany & Co. necklace, DKNY gown, Atelier Swarovski ring, Rebecca Minkoff shoes
Above: Eugenia Kim hat, Elie Saab blouse, Eddera necklace, Badgley Mischka pants
Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Mega Wears vintage headpiece & fan, Chris Benz dress, Jessica Hicks bracelet, Hue floral tights, Jean Michel Cazabat shoes
Summer’s End Part III starring Mega Gouveia for Ford Models / Art Direction & Styling: Kelly Framel / Photography: Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg / Makeup: Ana Sicat / Hair: Isabelle Arnone / Location: The Surf Lodge, Montauk
It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy ~ it increased her value in his eyes.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Above: Eugenia Kim hat, Tiffany & Co. necklace & bracelet, Jen Kao dress, Pretty Polly socks, Rebecca Minkoff shoes
Above: Eugenia Kim hat, Tiffany & Co. earrings, vintage Lanvin brooch, Bill Blass bodysuit
Above & below: Eugenia Kim hat, Tiffany & Co. necklace & bracelet, Jen Kao dress, Pretty Polly socks, Rebecca Minkoff shoes
