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THE OTHER ME: LONDON

THE OTHER ME

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EDD HORDER PORTRAITS WOMEN IN LONDON, BEFORE AND AFTER THEY GET READY FOR WORK.

Clothes can be armor, protective and empowering. They can be a means of transformation, endowing the wearer with a distinct sense of self. There’s a term for this sort of phenomenon—enclothed cognition—meant to describe the influence of the garments we don on our psyches.

It’s especially potent when it comes to the uniform. What we wear when we go to work—where we spend, on average, a third of our waking lifetimes—plays a powerful role in our capacity to perform, as an athlete, an engineer, a scientist, a performer, a public servant and on and on. The Other Me series captures women in this mode, transformed by the clothing of their respective callings. This iteration portraits a professional cohort in London; photographer Edd Horder gathered a boxer, a mechanic, a vicar, a firefighter, and more to pose in their second skin.

ALL CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES MARY’S OWN.

DIX WEARS BLACK COTTON BRA BY NINA RICCI. BEIGE WOOL TWEED JACKET, BLUE DENIM JEANS AND GOLD BRASS EARRINGS BY CELINE BY HEDI SLIMANE.

SHELLY WEARS WHITE COTTON TOP BY SACAI. BIKINI TALENT’S OWN.

DANIELA WEARS BLACK SILK DRESS BY CELINE BY HEDI SLIMANE. BLACK LEATHER SHOES BY 2000 ARCHIVES. GLOVES TALENT’S OWN.

CANDICE WEARS WHITE COTTON SHIRT BY GIORGIO ARMANI. MELANGE WOOL JACKET, GREY COTTON COAT AND MELANGE WOOL SKIRT BY STELLA MCCARTNEY. WHITE SILK TIE AND WHISKEY LEATHER BRIEF CASE BY DUNHILL. BLACK SUEDE SHOES BY MANOLO BLAHNIK.

EMMA WEARS WHITE RECYCLED COTTON TOP BY CAES. BLACK WOOL JACKET AND TROUSERS BY CELINE BY HEDI SLIMANE.

VERONICA WEARS GREY VISCOSE SILK UNDERWEAR WITH SUSPENDERS AND SOCKS BY LEMAIRE. KIMONO AND SCARF TALENT’S OWN. VERONICA AS RANDY WEARS T-SHIRT, SHORTS, SOCKS, CAP AND BOOTS TALENT’S OWN.

CH’LITA WEARS BLACK SATIN CORSET BY AGENT PROVOCATEUR. BLACK SILK DRESS BY ANDREAS KRONTHALER FOR VIVIENNE WESTWOOD. BLACK LACE TIGHTS BY FOGAL. TALENT’S OWN RING AND EARRINGS.

SIOBHAN WEARS RED JERSEY DRESS BY PHILOSOPHY DI LORENZO SERAFINI. JACKET, HELMET AND NECKLACE TALENT’S OWN. BLACK LEATHER SHOES BY CELINE BYHEDI SLIMANE.

ALL CLOTHING AND GEAR ALEXIS’S OWN.

AMBER WEARS BLACK LATEX BRA BY ELISSA POPPY. BLACK CRYSTAL MESH TOP BY TOVE. BLACK SATIN, JACKET, KNICKERS AND GOLD METAL EARRINGS BY DOLCE & GABBANA. BLACK NYLON SOCKS BY FOGAL.

MARNIE WEARS WHITE JERSEY TOP BY CAES. TROUSERS, HELMET AND GLOVES TALENT’S OWN. BLUE SATIN SHOES BY AMINA MUADDI.

LAURA WEARS WHITE JERSEY TOP BY MARGARET HOWELL. MULTI-COLOURED COTTON SHIRT SKIRT BY 2000 ARCHIVES. TROUSERS, NECKLACES AND SHOES TALENT’S OWN.

ALL CLOTHING AND GEAR GEMMA’S OWN. WHITE TRAINERS BY NIKE.

ALL CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES PIPPA’S OWN. BLACK LEATHER SHOES BY LOEWE.

PHOTOGRAPHER

EDD HORDER

FASHION EDITOR

ALEXANDRA BICKERDIKE

TALENTS

EMMA HAWES, CANDICE LAMBETH, MICHELLE MENSAH at RIPPED MODELS, DANIELA MIRANDA, MARY REYNOLDS, AMBRR AT TAG AGENCY, VERONICA THOMPSON, DIX HOWLAND, SIOBHAN PRIEST, CH'LITA AT ELITE, ALEXIS BUTLER, LAURA KENNEDY, MARNIE BRINKWORTH, GEMMA COLLIS, CAPTAIN ELIZABETH GODWIN, PIPPA WHITE

DOP

PAUL BELLON

HAIR

NAOKI KOMIYA AT JULIAN WATSON AGENCY

MAKE-UP

KYLE DOMINIC

SET DESIGN

KIARA GOURLAY

CASTING

NAJIA LI SAAD AT HUXLEY

LIGHTING TECHNICIANS

ROB PALMER, FINBAR TAYLOR-JONES

DIGITAL TECHNICIANS

RORY RONNIE, EMMET BANAHAN

STYLIST ASSISTANTS

CLIO REYNOLDS, YASMINE TYNDALE, ERIN DUXBURY

HAIR ASSISTANT

AIMERIC AMIOT

MAKE-UP ASSISTANTS

MATILDE RIBAU, MARIIA USANOVA

PRODUCTION

LOCK STUDIOS

PRODUCERS

ALICE TELLARINI, VALENTINA GENTILIN

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