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The Coveted’s Candid Camera

October 13, 2009 by WendyB

Gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted and I are recovering from a whirlwind New York City weekend. Jennine flew out from Chicago and stayed at my apartment while she did a photography job for my designing friend Christian Francis Roth, who was working on the look book for the Spring 2010 collection of his Francis line on Friday. Jennine’s assignment was to capture the backstage action. She was shooting the shoot!

For about nine hours, the studio was packed with the designer, two photographers, a makeup artist, two hair stylists working in shifts, Clementine, a model, an intern and me. I think a couple of other people might have wandered in and out while nearly 50 different looks were shot, including dresses, tops, skirts and pants.

Just to give you a feel for the day, this is my amateur-looking photo of what was going on in front of the professional camera: the model posing in a Francis dress in front of a white backdrop.

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This is a colorful version of my silvery-gray sample dress. Click the photo to see mine.

And here is one of Jennine’s photos of what was happening on the other side of the camera. This photo is not destined for the look book or website, but I am obsessed with it. There’s so much going on. Jennine and I think that y’all should think up some captions for this one. If you have an idea, leave it in the comments.

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Caption this!

My other obsession of the day was the Xlerator. This is the hand-dryer in the ladies’ room in Christian’s building. It is louder and more powerful than a jet engine. It doesn’t exactly dry your skin. It blows your wet skin off and into another county, so voila! No more wet skin. Or any skin, for that matter.

xcelerator

The words at the bottom read: "Feel the power."

When we weren’t at the studio, feeling the power of the Xlerator or taking pictures of my shoes, Jennine and I spent a lot of quality time with other gorgeous bloggers. On Thursday, we celebrated a momentous occasion with Fabulous Girl. FabGirl just so happened to be wearing her Francis zipper dress.

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Click to see me in the same dress.

On Friday, we were with Sister Wolf in spirit, though not in person. Sister Wolf has been feeling poorly, so we struck her forbidden hand-to-face blogger pose in order to get her adrenaline going.

Sister Wolf's anti-hand-to-face posing symbol

Sister Wolf's anti-hand-to-face posing symbol

Twice the face-touching fun.

Twice the face-touching fun.

On Saturday, we had dinner at Gabriel’s with gorgeous bloggers Tina, Alice Olive, Julia and Jordana (after Jordana bought a Francis zipper dress of her own). For some reason, we didn’t take a picture of all of us together. Jennine and I did take a bunch of pictures for a separate project of hers and I had to use her fancy camera to photograph her. Because I didn’t know the first thing about using the camera, she would put me where she planned to pose, set up the shot, and then trade places with me. That led to this picture. We were standing in the street and I was warning Jennine that a car was backing up behind her.

Click to read Jennine's post.

Click to read Jennine's post.

Jennine loves this photo, but I think my expression and glasses make me look like the melting Nazi in Indiana Jones. See the similarity?

Indiana jones and the raiders of the lost arc face melt nazi  icon avatar animated gif Pictures, Images and Photos

I really do feel like screaming my face off right now, because I miss having Jennine around 24/7. Come back soon, Jennine!

UPDATED TO ADD RELATED LINKS:

  • The Coveted
  • Fasshonaburu
  • Me again!

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Filed Under: blogs and bloggers, christian francis roth, dresses, pictures of me Tagged With: Francis lookbook Spring 2010, jennine tamm, the coveted

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Comments

  1. qin says

    October 14, 2009 at 11:22 am

    The back of the dress is amazing.

  2. Danielle says

    October 14, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    LOVE that pic of you, so candid!! 🙂

  3. pretty face says

    October 14, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Aaah I love your outfit in that photo (I want to steal your jumper)! And I think we’ve found you a new career i.e. fashion photographer x

  4. Pop Champagne says

    October 14, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Cool photos! and the back of the zipper dress is so original 😀 Thanks for your compliment of my Hello Kitty. hehe I wanted to get 3 more so I can have the whole band, but Mcdonalds stopped selling those in happy meals now booo

  5. SwanDiamondRose says

    October 14, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    i must change my posing ways, i love that Sister Wolf symbol. and i think i commented on The Coveted that you look more Ramones than melting cartoon guy to me!

  6. hammie says

    October 14, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    I love sister wolf, but something about that symbol makes me wanna start a fashion blog and start posing with my hand on my face.

    I think you look like a mime artist miming “there’s a car backing up behind you”

    xx

  7. Lexie says

    October 14, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    i’m in love with you in that last picture!!! so cute.

  8. Topaz Horizon says

    October 15, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    That outfit is so totally cool, WendyB. You are rockin’ it! And, no, nothing you do will make you look like that Nazi guy. Poor man. He deserved it, though! Gosh, must watch Indiana again…

  9. christine says

    October 16, 2009 at 2:09 am

    Wow, you in that zipper dress! Also, I think red lipstick was MADE for you. So gorgeous.

  10. TheShoeGirl says

    October 16, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    WB to CFR “Pin that dress damnit!”

    😉

  11. Kat says

    October 18, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Hi there Wendy! Missed your blog. Love the street pic of you…I want that top!

  12. Prêt-à-Porter P says

    October 19, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    you cracked me up with the melting nazi picture!!! LOL!!!
    you look fabulous!!!

  13. Replica Vertu says

    October 20, 2009 at 5:26 am

    Well i would like to ask you one thing that can you show me the full snap of this XLERATOR. This product is looking very attractive. I wana purchase it.

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