Marlene Dietrich meets Patti Smith.

LITKOVSKAYA F/W 13-14 lookbook
specially for VOGUE.RU
Photographer  Cate Underwood
Stylist  Venya Brykalin
Model  Appoline @ IMG 

Mariya Markina for Litkovskaya ss13 campaign.

One of the world's most in-demand models and Raf Simons’ favorite, Ukrainian top model Mariya Markina becomes the face of LITKOVSKAYA Spring-Summer 2013 collection.

'A love story staged in empty environment', was the work title for the shoot. Depicting anticipation of love, hunger for sensual contact and physicality -- the series explore an idea of  emotional attachment and physical obsession with the very object of desire missing. The final result, shot by Cate Underwood and styled by Venya Brykalin, presents a mixture of clinical images staged in anonymous and desolate white space and stark black and white portraits, dynamic and savage. Combined together, they create atmosphere both ambivalent and sensually charged. There is a notion of suspense and certain physical tention to the pictures of Markina's character -- a girl longing for love that never happened.

litkovskaya spring/summer 2013 lookbook.

model mariya markina
photography cate underwood
styling venya brykalin
all fashion provided by litkovskaya

litkovskaya + underwood / harper's bazaar jan. 2013.

liliya litkovskaya + cate underwood wearing litkovskaya dress / harper's bazaar ukraine january 2013.

hard working underwood.

That took some time for me to collect all thoughts together, but finally i'm so gonna share with some results of last month. I guess I have never been that inspired and productive ever before.

so far, i've made 100 photographs for last month, Mauro Grifoni upcoming spring/summer 2013 campaign, one more spring/summer 2013 campaign and lookbook for Litkovskaya with my lovely team, 2 secret (for now) editorials and if you ask i can sign under each photo, cause i feel like each one without exception got a part of my soul.

From london to milano-kiev-london, then paris and back to london.

Every time i am so excited before the shoot, that nights are sleepless until i am done with it.
Trip to paris was the highlight of this rule - being stressed for a week before and unstoppable searching for inspiration even at night time got me so badly. Of course I couldn't miss Amélie Poulain's french photo booth to keep that memory.

On my way back, trying to get a little bit of sleep at eurostar train, instead of counting sheep, i was busy with another calculation data as less then 3 hours of sleep for 3 days in paris, not less then 10 cups of double espresso per day, 6 packs of cigarettes, couple glasses of wine, dozen of magazines and books around, century of details for lightening, styling, make-up, hair and so on. But believe me, these two editorials were worth each of these freaking out minutes and that unforgetable pleasant tiredness after hard work is the most amazing thing which you can feel.

Be back to London is always feel like being finally at home.

Take You.

Source: Ben Trovato Blog Exclusives.

Credits
Photography by Cate Underwood
Modelling by Appoline Rozhdestvenska @ Linea12, IMG Worldwide, Iconic Management Germany
Styling by Venya Brykalin
Hair by Linda Poluetkova
Makeup by Helen Khodos
Retouching by Igor Primak
All fashion provided by LITKOVSKAYA

Litkovskaya spring-summer 2012.