The Painted Bride

The Painted Bride is a bridal editorial created entirely by Samira Salehi as photographer, model, stylist, makeup artist, hair stylist and retoucher, published in the printed edition MALVIE Fashion Across Cultures 139.

From the printed edition: MALVIE Fashion Across Cultures 139

The Painted Bride is one of the editorials in MALVIE Fashion Across Cultures 139, the new printed edition of MALVIE Magazine, alongside Dasha, Silent Conversation, Metamorphosis: Singer's Fashion Odyssey and True Love in Lilac.

The printed edition will be available to order from our print partners MagCloud, Peecho and DPBee.

About The Painted Bride

The Painted Bride imagines the bride as the subject of a society portrait from the turn of the last century: the hour before the painter arrives, and the hour after he leaves. Inspired by John Singer Sargent and the Old Masters before him, the series moves through a single house, from stone threshold to panelled room to a velvet sofa at dusk, lit only by what the windows allow.

The palette is kept to what a painter would have mixed: ivory, chocolate, oxblood and old gold. Sculpted organza takes the place of brushwork, and pearls stand in for heirlooms. Each frame is composed as a portrait rather than a wedding photograph.

The Painted Bride credits

Wardrobe Stylist/Creative Director/Model/Makeup Artist/Hair Stylist/Retoucher/Photographer: Samira Salehi @samirasalehi.portfolio