The contrast between the natural seashore landscape and avant-garde fashion present in the Scandinavia S/S/A/W 'April Skyes' editorial is visually striking. Like some sort of art performance, model Stef van der Laan embraces the various forms and fabrics she is clad in to better convey their ethereal qualities to the reader. Whether that entails standing stock straight or bending in the wind, the poses are poetic.
Appearing in the latest issue of the bi-annual publication, the Scandinavia S/S/A/W 'April Skyes' editorial was shot by photographer Benjamin Vnuk with art direction by Jakob Hysén Hedberg. The brunette beauty was styled by Oscar Lange who focused on grace and elegance in the wild through a wardrobe of structural shapes.
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