Anja Rubik For Vogue Japan

Patrick Demarchelier creates a certain magic

when he shoots Dior Haute Couture.

It could be argued that no photographer understands Dior better

than Demarchelier.

Last year he released his beautiful coffee table book,

Dior Couture By Demarchelier.

In the May 2012 issue of Vogue Japan

Demarchelier teams up with 

fashion editor and uber stylist

Anna Dello Russo

and polish model Anja Rubik

with a story that is exclusively Dior Haute Couture

aptly called Couture To Adore.

Makeup by Val Garland

hair by Malcolm Edwards. 

 

Saskia De Brauw for Vogue Japan May 2012

How many layers of killing me

can you have in one editorial???

Lori Goldstein's  styling on this shoot for 

Vogue Japan May 2012

is beyond genius.

The familiar theme of mermaid getting all beachy

is taken to a whole new level

with giant accessories

and extreme wardrobe, 

from designers including

Stella McCartney, Oscar De La Renta,

Kara Ross, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci,

Paco Rabanne, Balenciaga,

and Aurelie Bidermann,

as well as a massive dose

 of crazy brilliant flair.

Shot with aching beauty by Patrick Demarchelier

model Saskia De Brauw  gives us

attitude teamed with moody nonchalance

on the high fashion version

of a Mermaid's Holiday