Photographer Natalie Lennard, also known as Miss Aniela, offers us an unconventional twist on editorial fashion portraits. The pictures are part of her ongoing series called Surreal Fashion. Lennard crafts compositions that initially look like high-fashion spreads but have peculiar qualities once you look closer. A model’s divine blue gown, for example, leads into an ocean while the train of a yellow dress morphs into a cluster of canaries. The mix of fantasy and reality is what's made us endlessly fascinated with Aniela’s work.
Though some compositions are more subtle in their surrealism than others, her piece titled She Shoal represents one of her most ambitious endeavors up to date. She Shoal was created in forty-foot-deep water in the Cayman Islands with deep-sea diver model Coral Tomascik.
Aniela teamed up with photographer Jason Washington to “direct a vision” which was later combined with the talents of CGI artist Chris Antoniou. Scroll down below for more from Aniela’s Surreal Fashion—including some behind-the-scenes shots.
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“She Shoal” (2019)
“State of Grace” (2017)
“Swan Lake” (2014)
“Scarlett Song” (2013)
“What He Bequeathed” (2016)
“Enter the Dragon” (2018)
“Up the Great Wall” (2018)
“Thawed Fortress” (2015)
“Pokerface” (2015)
“Away with the Canaries” (2013)
“Gilt” (2016)
“Poster and Plumage” (2016)
“Marooned” (2015)
“Marooned” (2015)
“Melchior’s Medley” (2013)
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