Mr Porter x Hypebeast

I recently had the chance to not only style a shoot for my friends over at Hypebeast, but was able to do so with an awesome team and create an exclusive piece for Mr Porter.
Behind the lens was the very talented Carmen Chan, whose work I have been a big fan of ever since moving to Hong Kong, and Gabbie Lee did an awesome job on Hair & make-up.

One of the other things I really get excited about when shooting is the location, you get to see some really interesting places as well as awesome homes etc. This time was no different. We shot in one of the most amazing apartments I have seen in Hong Kong, I seriously had no idea a place like this even existed in this city. I wanted to steal the book shelf for my home!

It's Dark & Hell Is Hot

Once again I've teamed up with Boom Magazine on this latest editorial. Working with Boom always gives me the freedom to keep things pretty street, and with this shoot we decided to take things down a sort of modern hip hop route with a greyscale palette.

With this theme I thought who better to get in front of the camera than my homie from Hypebeast, Arthur and one of m favorite Korean models who luckily for me was in town. Vita has been doing big things in Seoul and abroad and I jumped on the opportunity to work with her.

See below for a select few.

Photographer - Mia Haggi

Stylist - Me

Hair & Make-up - Ryan Wing Li

Models - Arthur & Vita

"Modern Gentleman" - Boom Magazine

It's pretty rare in Hong Kong to find models with tattoos, in Australia most would probably have them, but here it's completely the opposite. Since the aesthetic is so clean here, models tend to be as well, so finding one with long hair, facial hair or tattoos, proves quite difficult. I was just about to give up on the search but some how stumbled across Lukas, who was perfect for this shoot. Check it out below or click the link to see the full feature up close on page 26.

Photographer - Sheng Wong
Art Direction & Styling - Juan-Carlos Aquino
Hair & Make-up - Summer Wong
Model - Lukas @Elite HK 

"The Speed Of Sound" - Hysteria Magazine

I worked on this editorial a little while back and it's finally published with Hysteria Magazine, the Voices issue. 

For this theme, I decided to take a scientific approach, and broke down what "voice" and "sound" literally is.

¹Voice;
pronounced [vois]
- The sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song.

¹Sound;
pronounced [sound]
- Produced by continuous and regular vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.

Check out the spread below for the result. Or this small animation of the glitches in action.

Photographer - Jeff Yui
Stylist - Juan-Carlos Aquino
Hair & Make-up - Anita Lo
Model - Lauren Rhoden

the holidays - home

i recently had the opportunity to style a music video for an australian band called the holidays, their latest single "home" follows my good friend gee around hong kong and really captures the city beautifully. it's great seeing hong kong in the not so typical way it is usually shown, the guys at entropico did an awesome job and i'm stoked with the end result.

click below to see the music video in full. enjoy!

music video by entropico
directer - harry hunter
producer - sam egan
hk producer/art director - emilie sullivan
fashion stylist - me
starring - gee cabalou

concept developed by the holidays and entropico

denim overload - boom magazine

i teamed up recently with the very talented dicky manana, he's easily one of my favorite photographers in hong kong and he always understands what i'm after with my concepts. this time around we shot miss bobbi nunes for boom magazine and decided to take the canadian tuxedo one step further and go from denim on denim, to denim on denim, on denim, on denim, on denim…….

check out some of my favorites from the shoot below or pick up the march issue of boom now. 

photographer - dicky manana
stylist - me
hair & make-up - anita lo
model - roberta nunes 

boom - on the street - blohk party

"blohk party", the biggest music festival in hong kong happened in december of last year, it was a dope event curated by pharrell williams and featured performances from the man himself, as well as pusha t, steve aoki, breakbot and grandmaster flash just to name a few. i was at the event snapping some styles for boom magazine in this latest "blohk party" street style edition. check out the shots below as well as a little video recap of the event by the homies at hypebeast and anderson ko.

name: alex maeland
occupation: creative director @ hypebeast
favorite band: currently, cvrches, all time is hard to say lol
favorite night spot in hk: i'm obligated to say yardbird lol. If that's not "late night" enough, I would say lily & bloom.

name: eve speciall
occupation: professional cutie and selecta
favourite band/musician: mandy moore, west life, 98 degrees and jc chases (n'sync) during his solo years.
favourite night spot/club in hk: fly, xxx and your mums place.

name: gee cabalou
occupation: videographer
favourite band: phoenix
favourite night spot in hk: la cantoche

name: courtney norris
occupation: senior account manager
favourite band: grand master flash
favourite night spot in hk: racks

producers - petar kujundzic & iveet shiau
video - anderson ko