Cathrin Jo Ann Wind : Leda and the Swan in New York - a fashion editorial in DIVA MAGAZINE

What could have been a better setting for the story of Leda and Zeus in the form of a swan? Photographer Cathrin Jo Ann WIND, her international team, including Boopboop the swan and model Kasia met up in New York. A fashion editorial was realised in the narrow gaps between skyscrapers for the latest issue of DIVA fashion magazine, issue 09/09.

Myth, drama, desire and escape. The images from the shoot clearly reflect these dynamics. The modern day Leda flees to the metropolis from the god that she encounters in the form of a swan. Meanwhile, he is on the hunt for her beauty, ready to seduce her. She makes a hopeless get away, dressed in high fashion’s autumn/winter collections 2009/2010 by names including Bruno Pieters, Hiroko Koshino and Thierry Mugler. Perhaps she wants to be found after all? Isn’t her escape a kind of game?

Cathrin Jo Ann WIND knew from the very start: it had to be New York. Even though it is a bit of a journey from her studio in Aachen to the Big Apple, the photographer would not settle for any other city. She saw how NYC itself thrives in a mythological way from desire, the unattainable, but also fate and tragedy, just as the legend does too; a perfect visual compliment to this ambitious editorial.


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