I see no Ships

A very long time ago I was a model. I worked mainly in Paris, Milan and in London.  I was not a supermodel by any means , but I did fairly well. I worked for prestigous magazines including French and Italian Vogue and Elle but the everyday work was more humdrum-and more lucrative-, and involved week long trips doing shoots for catalogues. And here we have, Ladies and Gentlemen, one of the inescapable poses for catalogue modelling. It is called ‘I see no ships’. There is also another very important  pose called the ‘Teapot’ which is well known to anyone worth their salt in  the catalogue modelling buisness, and that is one which I might use another time, if the spirit moves me.. . the fact is, I had no idea that I remembered ‘I see no ships’!  It came back to me quite naturally as if I were in Marbella or in Djerba again. (Two favourite hang outs for catalogue shoots, at least then, and we are talking early eighties.)

And this shoot was of course the tail end of the Malimali shoot, because there remained the swing coat  ‘Vernissage’ to photograph, and Maman did it yesterday. I called it ‘Vernissage’ quite pretentiously, because it seems to me this is the sort of coat I might  myself wear to a London, Paris of Stockholm opening of something, while sipping a glass of something... perhaps wearing a smarter pair of boots, perhaps high healed...anyway, it is all done. Please see the collection on www.malimali.org and on www.facebook.com/malimalistudio