Ellen Rogers and Aldene Johnson — Imaginary Friend

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Ellen Rogers and Aldene Johnson — Imaginary Friend

Haunting collaboration for VICE magazine's annual fashion issue...

We’re blown away by these beautiful images from this year’s VICE Fashion Issue that was released yesterday. Teaming up super-cool, London-based analogue photographer Ellen Rogers with South African, Aldene Johnson – the lady behind Florence Welch’s styling – is glaringly common sense it would seem, especially so if you’re familiar with either of their darkly historical styles. The disturbingly beautiful, Gothic images that are the result of this rather special collaboration are steeped in an eerie occult-like fantasy, and with Rogers’ refusal to use any digital effects – instead opting for experimental techniques achieved by toying with chemicals in her own darkroom (really feel that statement requires a disclaimer of sorts, oh well…) – the end-result is as much art as it is fashion. Captivating, stylish and decidedly dark…

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