Roro for ‘Nude’ by Emilia Paunescu.

I took these photos with Roro (Roxana Lupescu) for the ‘Nude’ spring 2008 collection catalog that day when I photographed my fall 2008 collection look-book. It was a Saturday and we got up early to have more time for the shooting. Emilia, the designer for ‘Nude’, had only about 14 looks in her collection, so I thought it won’t take a lot of time to finish. But she had a hairstylist friend working on Roro’s hair (for her own hairstyle look book) and that ate up so much time, that I could have shot a bunch of other spreads in the meantime (if only there were more models there).

Anyway, so then the batteries ran out and I panicked a bit, because I knew that I had a lot of looks to photograph for my look book (fifty that is!) and it was exhausting to get so many garments to the studio, I didn’t want to have to do it all over again. We searched a lot for batteries, as it was a Saturday afternoon. Eventually we got them and resumed work and after 13 hours of work, I finally finished shooting the look-book for my collection too (it took only about 2 hours). I was a bit sad because we wasted sooo much time on useless stuff, I literally got incredibly bored at one time, and I never did before at photo shootings. The most important lesson learned was that next time I will surely book Roro and the studio for myself only, in a day of work; it’s so much funner when you don’t have to hurry, while you are super exhausted, to get everything done.

Just to see how amazing Roro is, here are some snapshots I took of her wearing the last look of my fall collection. After 13 hours of work, after sitting through a lot of pain caused by the hairstylist (I really felt sorry for her at one point, I could feel her headache), after almost 70 outfit changes and a long search for batteries all over Timisoara, after walking/jumping/posing in high heels all day long, she still had a lot of energy to end the day on a positive note and have a lot of fun fun fun!!!

Roro is such a doll! She is the best model to work with, I got to know her so well that it comes so natural when we work together. Love Love Love!! Can’t wait for the next collection look-book photo shoot.

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