I have had the pleasure of working with Jessica Bella a few times…even though she has to trek from Portsmouth each time! As she travels that distance we do try to fit in a number of different styles within the same shoot.
Her last visit was primarily to shoot the gorgeous vintage-inspired hats by Rose Patricia Millinery. I would urge you to visit the site – the hats are spectacularly beautiful, and all the models fell in love with them. To give you a flavour I have posted below the ‘school photograph’ we finished off with, which graces the banner of the site…
Rose Patricia Millinery - vintage inspired hats
The models are, back row from left, Jean Rae, Jessica Bella, Miss Lilli La Scala and, in front, Rayna Terror
Anyway, after the hat shoot finished, we had a short break, regrouped whilst Jessica changed make-up from forties to sixties, then prepared to shoot a slew of sixties-inspired images. I’d been in contact with Candy Says, an amazing online store (that also happens to be very local to the studio) – Dawn very kindly collaborated by loaning a selection of sixties outfits for the shoot.
Of course Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton were high on our list for our tribute images. Last month Vintage Life used one of our monochrome images of Jessica ‘flying’ …as in one, two , three – jump! click! This month, the October edition, Jessica is both the Vintage Life cover girl and features inside the magazine too.
Retro Photostudio shot of Jessica Bella