Ariel
( Ariel jacket in creme linen. Simone trousers in black linen. )
Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.
-S. Plath, Ariel
Photographs by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
Work Diary
New Arrival - Camera Strap
New in the shop - handcrafted leather camera strap with blackened steel hardware.
Zola Jesus
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
http://www.zolajesus.com/
Song for a Lady
On the day of breasts and small hips
the window pocked with bad rain,
rain coming on like a minister,
we coupled, so sane and insane.
We lay like spoons while the sinister
rain dropped like flies on our lips
and our glad eyes and our small hips.
"The room is so cold with rain," you said
and you, feminine you, with your flower
said novenas to my ankles and elbows.
You are a national product and power.
Oh my swan, my drudge, my dear wooly rose,
even a notary would notarize our bed
as you knead me and I rise like bread.
-Anne Sexton
Photographs by Audrey Cantwell on 35mm film. Model is Kelsie Hastie.
Pierre
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Pierre Luc Huault.
December Dream
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Models are Allie O'Hora and Kelsie Hastie.
Strange Flowers
Fleurs Étrangères is a collaboration between Ovate and natural perfumer Lvnea. Inspired by strange flowers, handmade in small batches in our studio using the finest all natural ingredients and essential oils. Available in the shop now, in limited quantities.All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
Letter in November
Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color.
Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight
Splits through the rat's tail
Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning.
It is the Arctic,
This little black
Circle, with its tawn silk grasses - babies hair.
There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly.
I am flushed and warm.
I think I may be enormous,
I am so stupidly happy,
My Wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.
This is my property.
Two times a day
I pace it, sniffing
The barbarous holly with its viridian
Scallops, pure iron,
And the wall of the odd corpses.
I love them.
I love them like history.
The apples are golden,
Imagine it ----
My seventy trees
Holding their gold-ruddy balls
In a thick gray death-soup,
Their million
Gold leaves metal and breathless.
O love, O celibate.
Nobody but me
Walks the waist high wet.
The irreplaceable
Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae.
-Sylvia Plath, Letter in November
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
Nom de Plume printed silk
For the Nom de Plume collection, I've had a custom silk charmeuse digitally printed from photographs I took of antique letters that I collect. Limited edition dress and hair ribbon.
Amoureuse d'un Temps Passé
All antique pieces for sale online Thursday, November 2nd at 12pm.
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
Vintage Sale - Preview
On Thursday, 2nd November at 12pm noon, I am having a vintage, antique & pre-owned sale in the online shop. Nearly 200 items of women's clothing (size XXS-XL) and accessories, books, home decor and analog cameras. Below is a little preview..
Kelsie
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
Helena
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Model is Helena Feher.
The Waves
I see nothing.
We may sink and settle on the waves.
The sea will drum in my ears.
The white petals will be darkened with sea water.
They will float for a moment and then sink.
Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under.
Everything falls in a tremendous shower,
Dissolving me.
- Virginia Woolf
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Acadia National Park, Maine.
On the Death of Flowers
It is opposed to all true philosophy to say that flowers lack their own eternity. They may perish and die here ; but they will reappear in the restitution of all things. Nothing has been created out of the great Mystery which will not inhabit a form beyond the aether. (Paracelsus)
Montreal Botanical Gardens in September.
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Alexandra
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Alexandra Barzegar.
Nom de Plume on film
All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Tuba Qurban, Narges Qurban and Kaeten Bonli.
Nom de Plume - fall 2017 womenswear
All photos by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Narges Qurban and Tuba Qurban.
Nom de Plume - fall 2017 menswear
All photos by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kaeten Bonli.