This series is especially precious to me as the models are my two best friends, Anika and Kelsie. I took these photos in my bedroom on Kelsie's last morning in Montreal before moving back to California, we all cried over breakfast and snuck in this quick little roll of film together.  These last two images are out-takes but they warm my heart so much.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Anika Ahuja and Kelsie Hastie.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.

All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Ayanna Dozier.

All clothing is from the spring collection "Under a Glass Bell".

Photographed by Audrey Cantwell on 35mm film. Model is Kelsie Hastie.

Location is Style Labo in Montreal : http://stylelabo-deco.com/

It was a stately house where many lives had accumulated and left their essences.

It was also a house that seemed about to vanish.

The mirrors were framed with white roses made of sea shells. From the ceiling hung enormous glass chandeliers, blue icicle bushes shedding teardrops of blue glass light on the gold furniture. On the mantelpiece, the shepherdesses, the angels, the gods and goddesses of porcelain, all seemed to have been caught while in motion by a secret enchantment and put to sleep with a dust of white sleep like those secret enchantments of nature enclosing the drops of water in dark caves and turning them into stalactite torches, candlesticks, hooded figures. That delicacy of design only created in a void, in great silence and great immobility. No violence here, no tears, no great suffering, no shouting, no destruction, no anarchy. The secret silences, the muted pain brought about by riches, a conspiracy of tranquility to preserve this flowerlike fragility in crystal, wood, and damask. the violins were muted, the hands were gloved, carpets were unrolled forever under the feet, and the gardens cottoned the sound from the world.

The light from the icicle bushes threw a patina over all objects, and turned them into bouquets of still flowers kept under a glass bell. The glass bell covered the flowers, the chairs, the whole room, the panoplied beds, the statues, the butlers, all the people living in the house. The glass bell covered the entire house.

Everyday the silence, the peace, the softness, carved with greater delicacy the glass chandeliers, the furniture, the statuettes and laces, then covered them with glass. Under the giant glass bell the colours looked inaccessible, the shapes strongly beautiful as of something that can never be repeated. Everything had that transparency, the fragility of stalactite created in silence and obscurity and breaking when the caves are opened and the breath of man enters.

-Anais Nin (Under A Glass Bell)

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.

Ovate spring 2018 "Under A Glass Bell".

Available online March 22nd.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Chloe Chauvet.

I am very excited about these two new colours of linen gauze for the Mathilde dress, available in limited edition next month.

Photographs on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie

( Ariel jacket in creme linen. Simone trousers in black linen. )

Photographs by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Hastie.

New in the shop - handcrafted leather camera strap with blackened steel hardware. 

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. 

http://www.zolajesus.com/

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.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Pierre Luc Huault.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. 

Models are Allie O'Hora and Kelsie Hastie.

Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color. 

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.

All antique pieces for sale online Thursday, November 2nd at 12pm.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. 

Model is Helena Feher.

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.

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. 

All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Alexandra Barzegar.

All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Tuba Qurban, Narges Qurban and Kaeten Bonli.