Advice to Young Fashion Photographers

Fashion photography has always intrigued me — not only as an aesthetic, but as a cultural mirror. It can reflect, exaggerate, or define; sell an idea in a single frame or strip it of meaning entirely. For a long time, though, it felt distant — a world I wasn’t “fashion enough” to enter.

This project isn’t about mocking fashion, but learning from it. Through reenactment and mimicry, I use posing as a way to understand — not only the language of fashion, but the emotions and systems behind it.

Fashion has always borrowed — from cinema, painting, performance — creating a hybrid history of power, identity, and aspiration. Yet today, in the endless scroll of Pinterest and Instagram, trends blur faster than they form. Originality becomes elusive; identity, harder to hold.

In these twelve photographs, each pose revisits an iconic image — art, advertising, or music. Some are humorous, some tender, others quietly absurd. All are acts of study and care, of entering a language I thought I didn’t speak, only to find I had been listening all along.

A guide — not just for posing, but for participating.