Busy – back from Nepal now in London where we’re shooting the Autumn/Winter collection – today it’s the mens shoot for UK and Japan.

I’ve started shooting the outdoor location myself and Jonathon Rose the photographer shoots studio and kindly assists me on location. There is also Louise on styling and Fraggle (must be a nickname) on hair and makeup – then Lucy and Laura who do the catalogue here at People Tree.
I’ve been art directing for 15 years – I started by shooting my son in washable nappies (a baby at the time!) and myself in organic underwear (was a bit more slender then!). Then worked with professional Japanese photographer ‘Hiro’ using friends and People Tree staff as models.
We still use gorgeous friends and volunteers sometimes. Today we shot Christian Lambelin of Select Model Management. He was such an amazing model – He’s also worked in Japan too!
Anyway he seems to like us as much as we like him and told us again and again how great the clothes feel.
“I love organic cotton and hand-woven textiles, I have got sensitive skin and the fabric feels much softer, I really like the combat style trousers and check shirt I wore on the People Tree shoot. It’s great wearing stuff made by people who are well paid and making a good living as they should be.”
Christian Lambelin, (Select Model Management)
We were having such a good time and got carried away and shot some really arty stuff too. So here’s a sneak preview of Autumn Winter collection above and arty below.