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Fascinating Notting Hill

The Doors: choosen either as the editorial set or the soundtrack that inspired it. Melancholy is the typical feeling of a loving season like summer that ends and transforms itself in another one; when it’s blended with a heavy heart to leave the home country to move abroad, it drives to a kind of sadness that matches with the awareness of changing: a cycle closes, another begins. The concept behind the fashion editorial is the conscious involvement in a changing process: as the summer leaves its place to the fall, the season of lightheartedness leaves its place to a reflective maturity age. And sometimes growing up means go and live abroad. Alone. Bringing old experiences and creating new ones. Trying not to allow your life, as a long-term expatriate, falling somewhere between tourism and exile. This could be sad, but extremely challenging. Back in London after holidays. Walking down the charming streets of Notting Hill, everybody can lose one’s way in the neighborhood’s cobblestoned streets that weave through scrunched alleyways and richly furnished Victorian townhomes, and its stylish shops and passionate antique vendors satiate design-driven appetites. Every turn of a corner is a surprise and behind every different coloured door flow different stories and lives. Long sunny days will be soon a warm souvenir of cheerful time spent in the home country with nearest and dearest people. Remnants of summer slide on the buildings façades, climb down the stairs and still flirt with thin coloured dresses. Weather is changing by now: a cup of tea to warm up, a quick glimpse outside and then again thrown in the London mess, a toy model of the world. The air is colder now and London is ready to be itself, plunged again in its own fog, rain, asphalt and rigor. It is a stage on which to realize one’s own dreams is possible, but then the mask falls and the reference to its truth becomes urgent. One may ask why London does not want ties, to not suffer detachment, or to avoid having to accept to always occupy the only place a lover is permitted: the latter. In the heat of an hot overcoat lies the certainty that summer will come back once again but the period of life will not.

Photo

Gemma R. Gonçalves da Silva

Model

Elisabetta Brenci

Published in

Modellenland · March 2017