This editorial is a love letter to the disobedient joy of vintage fashion image-making. Inspired by the graphic sensuality of Guy Bourdin, the sun-drenched haze of Jean-Daniel Lorieux, and the “just for fun” posing of 60s beach-party films, this editorial reimagines the nautical code.
We are abandoning minimalism for maximalist attitude. The goal is to capture that specific, glossy, satin skin texture of vintage Kodachrome, the kind that makes a model look like a freshly caught mermaid. Using collage and drawings, along with AI, we will push this into a modern surrealist space: think impossible shadows, wet-dry contrasts, and a color palette that screams 1988.
The Narrative: Two halves of the same dream. First, the brash Pirate and Sailor playing on the rocks. Second, the solitary Mermaid, washed ashore and haunting a desolate beach house. Both share one DNA: fun, strange, and utterly glamorous.
Across both parts, there is a cold and confident attitude: the gaze that refuses to explain itself, the body held with geometric precision, the sensual charge that comes from stillness rather than movement. There is a theatrical ease and curious attitude.
In the first part, the pool is a surreal stage. The visual language is Jean-Daniel Lorieux: unexpected object, theatrical framing (cropped, graphic, slightly off-kilter), and a storytelling tension that asks: why is that here? The colors pop. The world is strange and humorous.
The model is pure Guy Bourdin: sensual, knowing, still. Her posing is deliberate, almost cold in its confidence. There is an erotic charge in the way she holds a rope, or lets water drip down her, or plays with a seashell. She is an 80s magazine character: untouchable, glossy, aware of her own power.
In the second part, she plays an unhinged creature of myth. She has broken into a derelict house. The furniture is abandoned yet still shiny, holding onto a strange glamour that refuses to die.
She is curious. She is trying on human objects (old perfume bottles, jewellery that are timeless) with the awkward, sensual strangeness of a creature who just learned how legs work, floating on a piano-boat as the house floods. This is the Bourdin half: beautiful, uncomfortable, and deeply surreal.
She has the confidence of a creature who knows she is both beautiful and terrifying. The skin remains the focus: glossy, satin, wet, even in the dry rot of the house. The salt has crystallized on her arms. The light catches her collarbone like a mirror. She is a siren out of water, and the house is her stage.
Credits
Photographer: Miroslav Kovalenko (@loveerrorr)
Creative Direction: Terry Xu (@terryxu_)
Art Direction: Jaszmine Wong (@isthisjaszmine)
Stylist: @elinehoyois
Make up: Ylenia Sigona (@yleniasigona_)
Hair: Nene Barry (@nb.hands)
Set Design: Alexandre Roy (@alexandreroy)
Models: Adit Deng & Annalise Demmler (Premium Models) (@adit_priscilla, @annalisedemmler)
Graphic Designer: Nick Sleptsov (@sleptsov.jpg)
Creative production: Aeros (@aeros.paris, @charliemelchiori, @maochan.talamoni)
Producer: @jordaneslm
Assistant: @virgilesabouraud
Retouch: @retouch_gornostaeva
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