Beautiful Women & Flowers

I was really impressed with French photographer Valerie Belin's latest work in photography and illusion - an interpretation of classical beautiful women and flowers. For those all things vintage fans, am sure you would love it too! It's a 'dreamy montage of women who embody the ideal post-war female, interlaid with sharp images of flowers'.



Type of flowers used Marigold (left) and Choisya (right)



Here's an excerpt on how she accomplished it : To get the interlay of female and flower right, Belin first cast models who could pull off a particular look–a plastic beauty coupled with Grace Kelly glamour.  She then styled them with make-up, hairstyles and jewelry inspired by the 1950s aesthetic. The sculptural quality of the hairdos and the roundness of the pearls, would, Belin envisioned, create the a perfect relationship with the baroque shapes of flowers.



Type of flowers used Fire Lily (left) and Cosmos (right)



Full article and more pics here.