Pause in Time — Creative direction & styling by Nazlı Can

In the morning people asked tourists for paracetamol. At night the same bodies were dancing.

Pause in Time — my industry project for Vogue Italia × Istituto Marangoni. Concept, research, styling, casting and creative direction.

Havana holds still and wears out at the same time. The shoot puts that in one frame: a flat ochre ground that doesn’t move, a figure that does, and a washing line collected off real walls. Korda and the Jiménez brothers are the references — Chanel’s Havana Cruise show is the counter-example.

After the mid-review at Vogue Italia I re-sourced every look, added hair and make-up, cast the model and shot it. PRETEXT is the booklet that records that: what the feedback actually asked for, what I kept, what I changed, and what the colour had to become.