This Month In Pictures

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What I've been up to during the past month, via my instagram @swiczeniuk!

 

 

Top Left - This weekend The Roustabouts performed at The Crazy Bear in Stadhampton, which is a beautiful venue! I wanted to take a photo of the amazing garden but didn't get a chance. I just bought this dress though, so here's a snap of what I wore!

Top Right - Bling bling just before Soho House

Bottom Left - A WIWT from last week, wearing my Whistle & Wolf pleated dress.

Bottom Right - The Roustabouts just before our gig at Hoxley & Porter in Upper Street

 

 

I've been SO busy from the beginning of the year! As my job involves selling our lingerie to stockists, this means I've started to go to tradeshows, which tend to happen at the beginning of the year and the middle of the year. In late January we went to Paris and then Copenhagen. You can read an indepth diary of the two tradeshows on the Playful Promises blog, but here's a few instagram snaps.

Copenhagen (above) was absolutely lovely, but snowy and cold! I think we might have been unlucky with the weather as some people told us it wasn't usually that snowy. It's such a lovely city though, and I'd love to go back in the Summer. The food was completely amazing (but everything is so expensive!).

 

 

Paris was also beautiful (and a much better show than Copenhagen). We didn't have much time to explore as the show was from 9-7pm and quite exhausting. We did manage to go to a gorgeous art nouveau restaurant (top right) with Karolina Laskowska, which was near the opera house (top left). Another highlight was finding a picture of a pug in socks. A PUG IN SOCKS!

 

 

Top Row - Went out to see The Black Cat at the Cafe Royal. This place is covered in gilt gold, which is obviously to my tastes ;) 

Bottom Row - For New Years Eve we performed at the Gore Hotel for an event organised by Chaz Royal and Betty D'Light. It was a masquerade themed event, so I found us some matching masquerade masks. 

Shooting for Orchid Corsetry

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 All the way back in July I was approached by Bethan of Orchid Corsetry regarding photographing a few sets of corsets and lingerie for her brand. 

We planned and planned, choosing a studio, model (the lovely Emilia) and makeup artist (I suggested the MUA I work with a lot for Playful Promises, Cheyenne Raymond) and finally took a day to shoot in November.

It was refreshingly different shooting bespoke pieces, I'm so used to shooting vast amounts in one day and needing to work very quickly! It's sometimes nice to take more time over getting the perfect shot, and we actually ended up with a lot more that it was difficult to narrow the choices down! 

A wonderful day with a great team, and images that I'm proud of! Do let me know what you think of them!

 

We also shot some images for Lisa Nelson, of Nelson Bespoke. Lisa creates a lot of beautiful custom work for many different customers, and as part of this shoot she wanted to get some photos of an exquisite black tutu and a tailored houndstooth dress.