Polyhedra

For the Arnhem Mode Biennale magazine SHAPE, Freudenthal / Verhagen created a series of photos in which the shape functioned as the narrator. Transforming from the second to the third dimension.

Piet Paris invited photographer Carmen Freudenthal and stylist Elle Verhagen (Freudenthal / Verhagen) to create a photo series for the Arnhem Mode Biennale SHAPE magazine. Verhagen pulled garments that stood out by their extraordinary shape, like the men’s suit with transparent peepholes by French designer Romain Kremer, a skirt as a circle by Comme des Garçons and a circular leather jacket by Maison Martin Margiela. Most pieces were from the spring/ summer 2009 collections, some were older; according to Verhagen they were all related by their play on shape. Whilst the photo shoot lasted for two long days, the job was not yet done. Freudenthal and Verhagen subsequently created three-dimensional collages with their photos to transform them into spatial and expressive images with a surrealistic element, a characteristic for their work. Verhagen quotes: “To us, everything that comes after the photo shoot is at least as important as the shoot itself. We paste, we cut, we edit: we reshape.”