Models Ania Jozwiak and Gabrysia Zurawska are captured frolicking in a garden by photographer Aldona Karczmarczyk for Polish Elle. Stylist Marta Kalinowska dresses the girls in complimentary black and white outfits as they channel Victorian-era governesses.
As the duo familiarize themselves with their new surroundings (presumably they’ve just come to a new family to school the daughters in all matters prim and proper) they are snapped enjoying each other’s company.
Implications - The shoot is incredible for its ability to take the often overused schoolgirl trope and adding a touch of class, style and history to the shoot. Take a look at this gallery and enter a portal into another time.
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A Fashionable Tutorial by Aldona Karczmarczyk for Polish Elle
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