I certainly hope that I still have some readers left! ha. A lot has happened lately, and I mean a lot! I am now a full time designer at CMT, and am living in Murfreesboro once more. About Wooden Heart, I am wrapping up the final shoots and starting to prepare for the show! Lots of stuff.
Back to the reason for this blog entry, I wanted to write about the Jack White Karen Elson shoot I was assisting at for Annie. I write all this stuff on here so that I dont forget! It is quite easy to feel like most of the things that happened in NYC were just some sort of a dream, and never happened to me. I have to read this to remember!
At the end of the Taylor Swift shoot, I received an email that Annie would be returning back to Nashville for another Vogue shoot! I was not sure who would be photographed at that time but they told me it would be an incredible one. I soon found out that it was with Jack White, and his wife Karen Elson, an international supermodel turned singer/songwriter with the help of her husband Jack White.
The theme of the shoot was a sort of Rockabilly, gypsy, love story of a producer and his singing muse. It was so great. First thing first... I had to go and pick up Grace Coddington at the airport! She is the Creative Director of Vogue magazine! I also had to pick up Julien D'yis, and Gucci Westman, the head of Revelon makeup! Thankfully Jason let me borrow his 4Runner once again! I entertained them on the way to the hotel from the airport, and we all went to sleep in order to be rested up for the first day of the 2 day shoot!
We began shooting at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on Broadway in Nashville.Karen and jack arrived and i was so excited! We were preparing all the locations and making sure everyone had what they needed. I was helping Nick and Mattieus, the lighting guys and holding some lights during the shoot. I also helped the shoot producer and made sure everything was in order at the shoot and was there to help wherever needed. The days flew by and I was able to meet Jack which was awesome!
This image in the car was taken around 6 in the morning,I was so tired from the day before and had to make a coffee run for everyone. Over 20 something cups of coffee.... ha.
This was shortly after the car shot outside the Ryman, and afterwards I had to help Jack carry his bags out to his car, which by the way, his car was completely amazing.
This was one of my favorite shots from the shoot, the one I talked about in front of Tootsie's earlier. It was so intricately lit, and they were actually playing during the picture.
I was standing right behind Annie during this picture, I wanted to try and see what she was seeing. It was awesome. They had all kinds of fog machines going creating the haze you see. Jack carried Karen all the way from the dressing room to the barn, her shoes were sooooooo tall and she couldn't walk it by herself.
Julian D'yis was the hairstylist for the shoot. Before I came to the shoot I didnt know who he was, but apparently he is the Annie Leibovitz of hair. ha. He had just finished working on a Dior shoot, and doing Chanel's runway hair that season and hopped right over to work for Annie. Before this picture he found this ivy at the farm we were shooting at and decided it would be a nice addition.
Another of my favorite pictures! I just liked the way the prop stylists threw all the pieces together so quickly. I have developed a passion for prop styling myself! I think its so much fun.
All in all, this was such a great experience, and it was such a thing to see Annie shoot all of these images so very quickly. Being around Grace Coddington and witnessing her work was also incredible. She was incredibly nice and I drove them all back to the airport. Definitely an inspiring day once again!
It was so incredible to witness a true supermodel at work. It is really her job, and she was incredible at it.
I Hope they come back again!!!!!!!
