{photographer: karen collins}

. . . as with art galleries, have always preferred setting things off with crisp white -- and yet -- photographer Karen Collins' wonderfully modern editorial for Elle UK, When Darkness Falls, brings back the elegance and drama of black . . .






{images: editorial - When Darkness Falls - Sophie Vlaming photographed by Karen Collins and styled by Sasa Thomann for ELLE UK – September 2009}

{blue-blooded}

Despite being much more likely to paint a room a soft and pretty shade, feel inexplicably drawn to wonderfully bright and saturated shades of blue, and would love to visit just one home as daring and adventurous . . .

{images: 1 - editorial: pillow talk, british vogue january 2003, model: natalia vodianova, photographer, karen collins; 2 & 4 domino; 3 - oscar de la renta via distractions via nibs}