People often ask about our models. We don’t have models, we have Morgana, a one woman talent show, combining skills as make-up artist, stylist, photographer, model and graphic designer in one petite package. She’s not at all your average model, in skills or in looks. We love her curves and the fact that she gives us her best work when we let her have a weapon to hold. She is the only person we know who would spend hours researching a character and background for one scene in a shoot.
Morgana is actually Spanish, her real name is a closely guarded secret, and you might recognise her from any one of a number of album covers. She now owns far too many stockings, and lives with her cat, Onyx. Onyx regularly attempts to steal the limelight.
For Autumn 2008, we are highlighting Morgana's abilities as a photographer and photo editor by showing off her pictures of Lou Watts. When we first saw Lou, she was on Britain's Next Top Model, a show that is great fun, but we had to disagree with them when she came second. She agreed to learn burlesque with Rebecca Drury for us for our show in November 2007, and this season Morgana has photographed her for our limited-edition Alouette in Emerald and Red and Black Vargas dress.
We should warn you: not everything in our pictures is real. Morgana can create almost anything given a graphics tablet and enough time, and although we don't “enhance” models to anything like the extent of some of the fashion industry, most of the backgrounds cannot be found anywhere in real life.
The weapons are always real, although not always functional. Happily everyone has remained calm enough to avoid maiming their colleagues thus far!
