To design the ebook Anna-Rose collaborated with graphic designer Billy Paterson. Alongside the shoots, Anna-Rose had interviewed every topic, however when together with the textual facet of the mission, Billy was eager to keep away from making it really feel like a listing. As a substitute of together with folks’s interviews subsequent to their picture, they have been collated on the finish of the ebook – permitting the pictures (at first) to talk for themselves. “I wished it to be a bit like folks watching, I suppose!” Billy says. When it comes to total aesthetic, Billy wished the ebook to emulate the historic “nearly theatrical” connotations of its title – a juxtaposition to the content material that he discovered fascinating – “I didn’t suppose that trackies, Buffalos and band tees have been actually the primary issues that sprung to thoughts after I considered being ‘adorned’.” To create this sense of grandeur Billy opted for a deep pink material hardcover, and Klim Sort Foundry’s Signifier, for longform textual content.
The ebook is brimming with nice outfits and insightful observations about fashion and identification. For Anna-Rose the portrait of her long-time good friend Ocean stands out. Ocean’s portrait exhibits them in a black skin-tight physique swimsuit and cowboy hat, splayed elegantly on their mattress, nearly showing mid-dance. Of their interview, Ocean states “dressing up in addition to different issues like dancing, listening to music, seeing mates and meditating, all these items are self-care”, a sentiment that resonates with Anna-Rose: “I feel a part of the rationale why I gown up each day is to make myself really feel good and assured,” she says. Billy, however, has a smooth spot for Belle’s photograph for its “punchy” color and composition, but additionally the ethos she outlines in her interview: “Somebody as soon as mentioned to me you spend half your time in your mattress and half your time in your toes, so I spend good cash on bedding and footwear.”
Not solely fuelled by the need to point out folks at their most genuine, Anna-Rose additionally hopes To Be Adorned raises the significance of extra aware trend decisions – most of the folks featured all through have made their very own garments or sourced them secondhand. “The journey to discovering that particular factor may be equally as necessary because the garment itself,” she says. Billy additionally sees the mission’s pertinence as a bit of historical past – a visible information to a selected, if fleeting, second in time. “Whereas fashion is blurred, fragmented, and in addition knowledgeable by the web, it additionally implies that these items are continuously altering and fleeting,” he says. “So I really feel that the ebook acts as a technique to solidify and create a bodily time capsule for these photographs to stay inside and look again on over time.”
