Lauren Bradley is cool. The minute you meet her she is kind, warm and likeable. Not in a cheesy way, in a completely genuine and just relaxed way. The fact that she’s been raiding great thrift stores for a decade makes her easy on the style-eyes, wearing eclectic and completely personal pieces like tiger patterned blouses and flowy pants. And she speaks openly about experiences, good and bad, she’s had in the past which always gets me because I love to hear about what people learn.

A few years ago she had a devastating breakup. One of those where things feel like they are going great, but blows up in your face on a street corner in San Francisco.

After this particular experience there was a pause. A pause to think and to consciously decide where her path was leading her next. Lauren was looking to re-claim what was her, what she treasured about herself; to find a new way to love and accept herself. She started making lingerie.

The Le Sang Bleu (blue blooded) catalogue is all her posing in her creations. They are beautiful, flattering pieces. Classy, but manages to remain sexy and intriguing. The images and the branding of Le Sang Bleu bring across Lauren as the femme fatale she is, but without looking for the artificiality and perceived perfection. It’s Lauren and her beautiful body and her acceptance of what it is – a modern woman who’s ended the constant self-hatred of this or that body part and done something great, inspiring, and sexy with what she’s got. Lauren Bradley is so cool!

http://lesangbleu.com/

Did a really quick and fun shoot with Erik Hart of awesome Factory.

Working with Sundry this summer was a dream! Below, some of my favorite images from the job.

The month of September I spent directing and producing a music video for the talented Elizaveta.
It was a crazy, crazy month, but so much fun and such and enriching experience. The final result is now public and the EP can be bought on Itunes.

I’m so thankful to the people that came and worked on this with me! Mark, Scott, Jamie, Tehra, the fantastic Lil Buck, Missy, Baptiste, awesome Joel, Dehx, Julie and many more. And of course to Elizaveta and Universal Republic for trusting in me to make it happen. These kinds of things are always a journey we make together, and I was so excited to do it with you.

We were very fortunate to be able to film at Julie and Tim’s Canyon Ranch. Julie’s also the one who took this picture, at the very end of the day, we’re all so happy to be done! Especially the freak in the air.

And here’s the final result!! Enjoy!

It’s always lovely when suddenly a little later an image becomes a cover. Also, check out story inside! Page 142. Thank you Fan the fire!

yup, I felt like I wasn’t fully expressing myself in a full-fledged way so I now also put lots of images here.

Some press on Photodonuts! Always honored.

Excerpt from “How to Enter a Big City” By Thomas James Merton

Until the lights come on with a swagger of frauds
And savage ferns,
The brown-eyed daughters of ravens,
Sing in the lucky doors
While night comes down the street like the millennium
Wrapping the houses in dark feathers
Soothing the town with a sign
Healing the strong wings of sunstroke.
Then the wind of an easy river wipes the flies
Off my Kentucky collarbone.

From the Poetry Foundation.

Traveling fuels me.