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IMAGE/IMAGINE_ENJOY THE SILENCE
docu:mentalKLINIK, 2007

A fashion photo shoot by docu:mentalKLINIK published in NICO Magazine, April, 2007 (14 pages)

ENJOY THE SILENCE...

the fashion shoot we did with our sub-heading docu:mentalKLINIK for the spring/summer 2007 edition of ‘Nico Magazine, fashion&interviews’

After an invitation for doing a fashion shoot in Nico Magazine interviews & fashion, Spring / Summer 2007 issue, docu:mentalKLİNİK realized a fashion photo shoot titled ‘Image/Imagine’ also referring to the concept of absence. Although a model and some real and virtual fashion items were used in the shootings, only the images of the locations, where the model and the fashion items were absent, were published. Also texts describing in detail the absent model and the fashion items were published along with the images.

…..a lengthy shoot by Turkish experimentalists docu:mentalKLINIK. This uses model-free images with extended, flowery captions describing what the model would look like if she/he were there. A clever conceit, extended by the final spread that shows the preparation (hair, make up etc) that an actual model went through before the shoot..Jeremy Leslie

CONCEPT by :mentalKLINIK
Styling / make-up / hair styling / texts by docu:mentalKLINIK_ Yasemin Baydar, Birol Demir, Ayşe Draz
Model: Ayşe Orhon 
Photographer: Ahmet Elhan

Imagine…she is 30 years old… she has a tall and slender but robust figure…the bone structure of her face is what initially catches your attention…she has a long neck and an oval face…fair, pastel rose complexion and straight ash brown hair with natural shades of dark blonde…above her slant up cocoa brown eyes, she has curved medium eyebrows, a tone darker than her hair…thick curled eyelashes…there is an intense but soothing expression in her eyes…she has a small nose, convex but soft… the strongest feature of her face is her high cheekbones…. her full down-turned peach blossom lips…she has a vaguely wide jaw…a narrow chin on the left side of which there is a tiny  scar...she has small, high ears…a muscular, up-right figure…long muscular arms and legs…rather broad shoulders… slightly flat chest…narrow waist and hips, hips tapering only slightly from the waist…when she moves, it is as if her body silently envelopes the space around her…

Imagine…-Shiseido- The Skincare Foam, Hydro-Refining Softener, Visible Luminizer Serum, The Skincare Day Moisturizer, Matifying Stick and BOP Eye Contour Cream are applied oh her face in order of appearance as preparation for the make-up…her make-up is done using -Uslu Airlines- airbrush make-up system air(o)pack, liquid colours, loose powders and  concealers… the make-up achieves an effect of varying sun-tanning on the face…her face has a gradient colour with ranging shades of exposure to sun…the same make-up is applied on both of her arms…x liquid colour is airbrushed on the inner side of her eye socket…-Shiseido- after make-up Soothing Spray is used for finish… 

Imagine…her hair is pulled back in a tight but low ponytail…no hair band is used… the base of her ponytail is dyed with shades of shocking pink… her hair on the neckline is shaved… along the left side of her forehead her hair is shaved irregularly small triangular shapes… -Alterna- Hemp line products are used in hair styling…

(All descriptions are made from the viewer’s standpoint)

IMAGE 1

Imagine…she is there standing sideways on the right of the two-storey rectangular object…facing left… she is leaning her body‘s front side softly on the object’s right plane as if lying on a perpendicular bed…her arms are hanging loose by her sides… her head reposes on top of the object as if on a pillow, facing back…there is a mute inter-space left between her body and the object…she is wearing a strapless dress which reveals only the curvature of her left arm and shoulder…her neck is covered by her hair…the dress she is wearing looks at first sight like a green balloon deflated in time…the complexity of this dress is suspended in its plain look…fluid and elegant…she is wearing the Jill Sander Spring/Summer 2007, strapless full-length one piece dress…the dress leaves her arms and shoulders bare… the dress is fluorescent bright green…its colour dissolves in the colour of the space as the lights suppress the green… the dress is made of thin but heavy weight material with a silky touch on her skin…the surface of the dress‘s material is smooth… its fabric is pleated on the front and the back centre of its strapless belt with invisible stitches…it hangs loosely inflating the dress as its downfall tapers at the ankles…this voluminous dress  conceals her body‘s curvatures only revealing a soft and rounded silhouette…the volume of air enveloped inside is in constant change…only a whispering sound of the dress is heard vaguely in the silence of the space…

IMAGE 2

Imagine…she is there behind the dark perpendicular object on the right…she is standing straight on a platform, her body facing front…only her bust can be seen…her arms are held up as if suspended in the motion of putting on a pullover…however she is already wearing two pieces…a skirt and a vest/blouse…her head is bowed down…her chin rests on her chest…the skirt‘s waistline is caught motionlessly in the space in-between…it hangs loosely from just above the line of her armpits… she is wearing a sleeveless vest/blouse on top of the skirt…the vest/blouse is held up by the skirt‘s waistline covering her neck at the back…it hangs down in front on both sides…both pieces are black…one matt and the other shiny… she is wearing the Prada 2006 bias-cut, A-line, double-flared skirt…it has a low-cut waist… it is made from a crepe fabric with a mix of acetate and viscose…its colour is moonless night black…there is a knitted rib trim on the skirt‘s waistband…this generous skirt‘s heavy weight material flows down creating a variety of inner and outer volumes in its folds... it waves quietly in the space...the vest/blouse she is wearing on top is from Joel Andrianomearisoa’s 2005 collection...its light chiffon fabric has horizontal lines with different densities...two rectangular pieces of this jet black material is sawn on the sides leaving space for the arms, and on the top leaving space for the neck...it is cut perpendicularly in the centre on the front...on both sides there are many triangle pieces of the same fabric inserted in the shoulder and side stitches...due to its irregular cut and the raw edges, this vest/blouse adorns the body with a variety of secret cross fading patterns... the skirt and the vest/blouse dreamily melt into each other as they silently converge into one piece…

IMAGE 3

Imagine…she is there on the floor by the right wall… she is leaning her back on the wall…her legs are stretched in front on the floor side by side…her right arm rests closely by her right side…her body is slightly tilted to her left…she looks like a lifeless doll that is captured motionless in the moment just before it falls down on its left side…the surface of her left forearm and her hand on the floor hold the whole tension of her body‘s weight…she is wearing an evening dress which appears to be floating in air…it is as if this dress is pulling her body up from the floor but she is suspended in this silent tension between the gravity of the floor and the floating of the dress…she is wearing the Lanvin Spring/Summer 2007 halter-neck dress…the hemline of the dress falls just below her knee…its fabric is a mixture of silk and lurex  with silver tinsel…some parts of this lamé dress dissolve into darkness, while some parts on its surface glitter…a zip fastening runs down its back…the dress is so light that even where it touches her skin she feels vulnerably exposed rather than covered… its straps are made from the same fabric and they tie at the back of her neck… a tightly pleated panel is placed on the dress’s low slit v-neck which is pulled up by the straps…this rather stiff panel with a futuristic Greek draping around it, curves up  and away from her bust….along with the panel, the tapering of the dress at the hemline creates a 3-dimensional volume inside the dress’s surface on the front…her body’s form is hidden in this 3-dimensional space…when she moves, a low trembling metallic noise is heard from the dress…       

IMAGE 4

Imagine…she is there in the centre…standing sideways facing right…she is bending her torso down from the waist in a 30º angle…her right arm above the elbow is parallel to her torso while her forearm hangs down…her left arm is wrapped around her head…she is holding in her left hand just above her head one end of a rope…the rope is wrapped around her waist, passing through the space under her right armpit, reaching up to her left hand…there are rectangular pleated clothes in varying sizes sawn to the rope …a small rectangular piece with three layers hides her face while another covers her chest…it is a piece by Bruno Pieters, 2004…this piece is a long waistband with many buttons and buttonholes…pleated paper-like cotton pieces with varying widths and lengths are layered on each other in bundles along the waistband… it has a balm like ‘after dark’ black coating…the waistband and the pleated pieces are of the same rigid material … she feels safe…it wraps air inside and keeps it safe covered with multiple layers….it always leaves a breathing space between the pleated folds, between the overlapping layers…the pleats are very disciplined…sharp… clean-cut edges…the top  layers lift up as the piece gets wrapped around…this uncommon piece mutters something but the words are inarticulate…

IMAGE 5

Imagine…she is there sitting on the first level of the dark platform…in the centre…facing front…her body above the waist is tilted to her right side…her head is resting on top of the platform behind her…there is something bundled like a pillow under her head…some fabric…her hands on her knees…her calves hanging down…her right sole touches the floor, while her left is perpendicular to it…there is a reluctant tension between the right and left halves of her body…her shoulders appear bare…her cleavage down to almost her bellybutton appears bare…yet she is wearing a shirt…cloud dancer white…it is the Viktor& Rolf Spring/Summer 2007 shirt…with tricky zigzags, a transparent flesh coloured lycra fabric around the collar and down through her cleavage suggests nudity…but this fabric is holding back a white shirt from its downfall…the nudity is silenced and rather the body’s silhouette appears to be pushed down along with the white shirt…sharp….frivolous but complicated… elegant and romantic…romanticizing modernity…under her head bundled  is the Viktor& Rolf Spring/Summer 2007 pants…it is another piece creating  a dreamy illusion…straight-slim cut cotton trousers that disappear towards the legs…fading from peat black to castor grey…from castor grey to elephant skin….from elephant skin to flint grey…from flint grey to silver cloud…dissolving into air…foggy and dusted…the vision gets blurred…the absence of sound gives an illusion of silence…

IMAGE 6

Imagine…she is there sitting sideways on the right corner of the object…facing right…she is slightly leaning down…it is as if she is trying to look at something…only her right arm from the shoulder and her right leg as it reaches down to the floor can be seen…her profile and her torso are covered under what appears to be a caviar black armour…with her left arm stretched up she is holding the hemline of a skirt…the skirt prolonged along the straight line of her back and her arm, comes down in a half circle… through the waistband of the skirt, her right arm is coming out…it is a tailor-made flare ballroom skirt from the 40s…hemline just below the knee…fitted waist, the skirt is made up of more than 100 triangular silk taffeta fabric pieces sawn side by side…while the skirt makes a round silhouette, its fabric creates sharp forms in the space…there are hidden but clean and careful stitches…in the absence of an original belt, the skirt now has a raw cut waistband…this absence is intensified with traces of stitch-holes…it has a zip fastening on the side…motion is arrested inside the rigid folds of the skirt…the straight lines of the skirt layer on top of each other creating ruptures…deconstructionism silences constructionism…only a low rustling sound is heard…

IMAGE 7

Imagine…she is there lying on the pile in the centre…she is lying on her right side…her body is twisted…her legs are not seen…only her torso…her left shoulder…her right arm and head pulled down by the gravity of the empty space…the rest hidden behind the pile…her left shoulder is partially covered with a black cropped cloth…it looks like pieces of different black clothes are thrown over her in a bundle…as if to terminate the convulsion of her body…it is the Comme Des Garçons 2004 black jacket…its black ranges from night shade to raven…this 40’s style cropped cotton jacket has silk insets and sheer ethereal shawl bits…the jacket closes at the waist with a hook and eye…it has a slightly asymmetrical fit…though very subtle around the bust…the jacket is an encounter of three different models…its backside has different styled jacket cuts layered on top of each other…leaving graphical traces  of its stitches…its backside is made up of only one fabric…cotton…on the front side of its sleeves there are  asymmetrical silk fabric pieces…the combination of different fabrics and shades of black gives the jacket an animated appearance…however it is introverted…looks like tailor-made…unique…the front piece of the jacket is slightly longer than its back piece…different collars made from different fabrics are layered on each other…shiny, matt, transparent…sometimes like a shawl…sometimes very geometrical…the shades of black wipes out the jacket’s sound…

IMAGE 8

Imagine…she is there sitting on the up and right corner of the low platform…her weight suspended on the edge…she is facing backwards…staring at the reserved darkness…her arms are lifted up slightly from the shoulders…fingers pointing the floor…it is as if she is surrendering to eternity… only her back is seen through the phantom black chiffon…no zip line is seen on her back… she is wearing the Martine Sitbon 2002 batwing sleeve chiffon blouse…the front side of the blouse is covering her back…revealing her flesh through the black transparency…the blouse has a round neckline… soft silk fabric borders the neckline and makes a small upside-down rounded triangle on the front of the blouse… it is opaque and matt….a thick line of the same fabric stripes down the sleeves…there is a hidden zip fastening down the blouses’ back…the hemline tapers and fits just below the hips…the chiffon fabric sawn to the epaulet-like silk stripe panels on the arms, comes down like drapery…creating loose chiffon batwing sleeves…inside this fragile  blouse, the wind falls asleep…

IMAGE 9

Imagine…she is there behind the dark horizontal object…standing sideways…facing left…her legs slightly bent…her head levelling the height of the other object on the left…a stagnant profile…her neck and her left arm just down to her elbow are seen...the rest hidden behind the darkness…it appears as if she is wearing an off shoulder t-shirt…covered with a transparent layer…the t-shirt inside is bundled on the shoulder under its transparent cover…it also makes her appear hunched as it also bundles at her back… the t-shirt comes down to her hips…it fits tightly trapped inside the transparent layer….she is wearing the Martin Margiela 1994 piece…it is a combination of two pieces…a moon mist grey sleeveless t-shirt…and a sand-shell long sleeve, tight fitting fishnet body on top…the fishnet body with small patterns, while trapping the cotton t-shirt inside, leaves a breathing space for it through its tiny pores…the over size t-shirt has a wide rounded collar…it fits her body wrinkling and bundling here and there…searching for a place to rest trapped inside the fishnet…its loose left shoulder is arrested by the fishnet on the arm…the t-shirt is transformed into an off shoulder t-shirt…wrinkled irregularly inside its cage, it gives an impression of a faulty creation…the fishnet body on top has a smooth and fine surface… while the fishnet fits tightly on her body, her body’s silhouette is transformed with wrinkled fabric of the t-shirt…this mismatched layering creates mute shadows…

IMAGE 10

Imagine…she is there just behind the pile…on the right corner… standing upright…facing front…her arms opening down from the shoulders…her forearms lifted up, perpendicular to the floor… on both hands she is holding the ends of a white cloth…her head is bowed down…the cloth is caught in the centre under her chin…she is pressing her chin tightly on her chest…the cloth falls down irregularly…the irregular white form and her arms appear like the wings of a white seagull…there are blue shades on the cloth…the blue ice cubes stringed on her neck are melting…she is holding in her hands the white wrap around  Martin Margiela 2000 skirt…made up of two different fabrics…satin and viscose…it has a wide satin waistband…down the waistband there are rectangular viscose fabrics in varying lengths and widths stitched to each other…as it is wrapped around, different shapes layer on top of each other…long and short…wide and narrow…it has a raw cut hemline…an irregular downfall… sometimes below the knee…sometimes above… it is voluminous…quivering waves appear on its surface…the skirt is playful but speechless… the Martin Margiela, 2006 ice necklace is made up of ice cubes with blue textile dye...cyan blue…the melting of ice leaves its blue traces on the skirt…one expects to hear the cracking of ice as it melts, though only a shiver is felt and no sound heard…