This Seoulist project was shoot on a normal February Wednesday, very early in the morning. It was extremely cold, but the aura and lighting given by the sunrise on the river were very well worth it. The director of Seoulist made sure to give us beautiful aesthetic and his filming storyline, to which I added through my art, all those emotions and feelings I wanted to express and portray for the spectators watching.
With this episode, I wanted to talk about life, about the reality and duality of it all, about the light and the shade, about the white, the blacks and the whole tons of grey.
I wanted to talk about innocence, about the purity of our hearts and about how sometimes through life, we slowly become different versions of ourselves. How we sometimes without meaning to, become victims of our own circumstances, but also about how I wish for more people to be brave enough, to keep all those parts that make them themselves protected. All those parts that perhaps society or circumstances want you to change, but that you should most definitely always keep alive.
We grow up, life gets harder, we get disappointed and a little bit less innocent and pure at heart, we slowly become colder less trusty, cooler but less genuine, somehow more obscure even though at one point we rose from complete lightness and trust. I especially wanted to also talk about the identity of women, about what is inside versus what is outside.
And for all this, I created three outfits with pairing makeup looks representing those ideas in three stages: from being born to our adolescence and youth, to last but not least becoming a woman. More mature and hopefully wiser, but also someone who does not necessarily need to be any less magical.
The concepts of this Seoulist episode go from more pure and ethereal to playful, while ending with a more mature and mysterious note. In my opinion, beauty is in the mix, because as humans, we can be whatever we decide to be, whatever we set our minds and hearts to. Even when life gets more difficult, I would wish for us all to keep more of those things that make us special, no matter what and despite our age frame.
Director: Johnny Kim
Model: Miranda
Styling, Makeup & Hair: Lorena Jiménez
Clothes: Chez Heezin
Photography: Vincent Go
Camera Assistant: Sungjoo Lim
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